Would love any one of these Could trade for a cutting of Acoma myrtle which has red leaves & very fragrant white flowers. Cuttings are not yet rooted, but can send you potted if you want to wait a little while. 5.Lemon grass, division(C.citratus) 6.Citronella cuttings(scented geranium) 8.Mango ginger (C.amada),rhizome 9.Variegated ginger (Alpinia zerumbet variegata),rhizome

FATHERS?!?! I had one, I am one. My son(17) gives me that "I do not believe it" look a lot. When it comes to thing with many keys,buttons & blinking lights he is right. IMO,All sweet peppers are green(unripe/ immature) until they ripen, then they are red(the only kind for many years)yellow,orange or purple. IMO, you are right, but I eat them all & they are great. By the way cucumber are eaten immature in my house( before they turn yellow).

Andie: Not sure where you are in SoCal, but I'm in San Diego. So, my few years gardening experience might help. And Yes --gardening is addictive. Yo be honest with you, if your area gets below freezing(AT ALL), the peppers, tomatoes and cukes just aren't going to survive. Even if they do, they won't THRIVE. Those are WARM weather crops. And they need lots of sun -- something that even the mild winters here just can't supply. Don't get me wrong. If you start those veggies between March and June, you can get nice harvest all the way up until November and December. But STARTING them this late won't yield much of anything. I like to start my peppers and tomatoes in January indoors, under a shoplight with "daylight" flourescent bulbs. Cukes can be started in Feb. or March. Or I just wait until the nurseries bring in transplants around late March. There's actually more veggies that you can grow here in the fall and winter here - lettuces, spinach, root veggies, anything in the brassica family(broccoli,cauliflower,Kale,cabbage, etc.),snow peas, etc. Do a search in google for: vegetable planting guide along with the name of your county. You'll get a general idea on WHAT to grow and WHEN to grow them. You can still get some COOL weather crops in the ground, but you're probably best off finding transplants at Home Depot or (even better) your local nursery. All I saw at MY Home Depot was lettuce. I DID find some broccoli and cauliflower at my Walmart though. Good Luck. Kevin

Well.... yes and no. My intention is to put things right in the ground, and I try to as much as possible. I do a lot of mail-order and so most of my purchases are smaller, and yes, I intend to put them directly in the ground. The reason I don't always do that is simply neglect. I have very little time for gardening and to use a food analogy, my eyes are always bigger than my stomach. So I buy plants and have no time to plant them. Or buy them planning to re-do a bed or put a new bed in, and then don't get to do that, so the plants are sitting in their tiny little pots. Then I see they need more room so I pot them up till I "get to the bed". Then in fall when I realize there's no way I will get to that new bed, I pot up them up in big pots to overwinter in the garage. But yes, I have little hesitation in putting most small new plants directly in the ground. :) Dee