Great shot!!! She is Beautiful.. I always wanted one.. I remember seeing a photo in a Mag. of a guy with his arm around this women with beautiful hair sitting on a park bench (from the back) .. The front shot was this guy with his arm around his Afgan...lol I use to have a chicken that would wear this little decorated straw hat.. I wish I still had the pic or the chicken...lol SJN can't dress the dogs so she dresses her Brugs instead...lmao Kylie

They do if you have a greenhouse to continue them on growing. We've looked at plugs in the past but found that most of what we grow is not offered in plugs. Also you get maybe more than you need for a particular variety. We grow all our plants from seeds . . . more work, but you get what you want and in the quantities you want. In addition we have the space to grow everything from seed, almost 4,000 seedlings. If you are a bigger grower plugs may be the way to grow . . . but I still like the selection from seed and the option to grow as much or as little as you need.

As have I. How much LEDs were you using per how much surface area? Most people way-underlight their plants when they use LEDs, acting as though a 90W LED is the equivalent of a 400W HPS. It is not, hype notwithstanding. And you have to have several LED fixtures to get canopy penetration. My basil, peppers, and toms loved my LEDs (I harvested tons of basil, but spider mites kept attacking my peppers causing them to periodically lose their leaves, and I accidentally killed my toms due to phytotoxicity from an insecticidal soap spray :P). Broccoli didn't grow well under LEDs. As for other plants: Liked LEDs: Shiso, banana, eggplant, coffee, squash, geraniums (it made them go overboard on flowering), several others. Did not like LED: Cauliflower, lettuce, caraway, cumin, fenugreek, several other herbs. Lettuce was the worst. My main problems weren't lighting, though. They were pests. Controlling the spider mites without resorting to really nasty chemicals or killing my plants with phytotoxicity was an unending battle. Early on I had aphid problems, but I killed them really easily with some acetamiprid, a nicotine-like systemic. Unfortunately, acetamiprid makes spider mites worse. :P I initially tried to control them with insecticidal soaps, which helped a little, but also tended to frotz my plants. I tried a pyrethrin submerging of every last plant at one point (that took hours), but it *really* frotzed my plants. I later found sucrashield, which isn't super-effective against the mites, but it does indeed help and isn't so dangerous to the plants. And it's pretty biologically benign; it breaks down into a milk fat (octanoic acid) and sugar (sucrose) within hours. This winter I'll try using that alone and see if it does the job.

Ooooh, I love this post. I recently moved to Colorado (Littleton) in late August from my home state of Michigan and was wondering where all the good nurseries were! There a few small ones by me. As for seeds, I like to order from Jung's, Baker Seeds, and Burpee (their catalogs, like most seed catalogs, have much more variety than what is sold in stores). I will also order from an odd catalog or two I get, but the ones I named are where I order the most. For live plants, I like High Country Gardens and David Austin. Four years ago I ordered one of Jung's perennial gardens for sun. They came in 3 inch pots and I wasn't sure they would make it through the Michigan winter. Three summers in, I had the most lush, beautiful perennial garden I could hope for. I will definitely take the gamble on Jung's perennial garden again once I find a permanent home in CO. At least I am in same zone here as I was in MI so hopefully I will have the same success!