I think that you started by doing the right thing - - going to a daylily farm near you and seeing what does well for them. There are a number of daylily farms in Mississippi and throughout the south. You will know that you are truly addicted when you start planning days that you can drive 100 miles (one way!) to see a different daylily garden. There is a daylily club in Hattiesburg (www.hattiesburgdaylily.com) where the membership could help you with what does well for them and who can also tell you about various growers in the general area. I can't think of the names, but I know there is at least one in the Ellisville area.

Cody, Wanted to touch on the subject of trading...first so sorry to hear you got burned on the dahlia's as I have had the same problem this year. I made a trade for dahlia's for daylilies and the dahlias I got where dried up and still have not done anything. I am hoping they will but so far nothing. I am not good at growing dahlia's so it could be me. I have had some awesome trades this year. The worst one I have sent this year was to Joey as when I walked into the garden the morning I dug his things I almost broke my leg from the trench I steped into unknowningly. When I started moving the mulch back and digging every plant had been chewed up. It took less that 24 hours to hit several drug stores and buy all the caster oil I could get my hands on and I soaked the ground all over. Had some really pretty and shiny plants. Now back to what I was going to say. I sent several trades that where pretty big back in the fall and got tiny sickly plants in exchange. I swore I was not going to trade with anyone again...then spring fever hit and I made a trade that went beautifully so I did a few others. I have been super pleased but I have also been pretty careful as to who I trade with. I have met some great people and have gotten some plants that I can not find around here and the mail order thing has been very disappointing to me so I have taken some chances. I look at it like this...if you burn me once you will never get a second chance to do it again. As I said in the above post I got three boxes of plants in today and I could not be more pleased in the boxes I got. Carols was awesome, besides Carols I made a trade with a guy in NC for some sedums and a few other things, well here is what he sent me Sedum 'Carmen' x1 Sedum 'Neon' x2 *Caryopteris 'Worcester Gold' x1 *Physocarpus 'Diablo' - ninebark x1 Sedum 'Kamschaticum variegatum' x2 Centranthus Ruber 'Jupiter's Beard' x2 Stachys Byzantia 'Helen von Steine' x 2 The box weighed 14 pounds. I would have paid $200 at any nursery around here for the size plants he sent me. He even added a few extra things. I will be trading with him again. The Centranthus Ruber 'Jupiter's Beard' are both sitting in 5 gallon buckets...that is how big they are. The sedums have no growing room at all in the 3 gallon pots I put them in as a temp home till I get the new bed ready. It was completely unbelievable. The other trade I got was for an Orange Flowering Maple and a few Chinese Lanterns. The flowering maple was 3 feet tall and my daughter counted 63 flowers and buds on it and it was still in dirt and looked awesome. It has been a wonderful day in my Neiborhood. Ok It is 2am and I need to be in the garden at 6am so I wish everyone and great day with lots of blooms. Deni

WOW!! That is absolutely gorgeous!!! I'm green with envy. :) If you ever go again, I would love to participate. Thank you for sharing your pic Rebecca. I only have a 30 gallon water garden at present, so can only have little water plants, but I can dream. :) Marianne brought me some Parrot Feather to the E.T. swap and it's looking good. The tree frogs love the water. I attended the Bloomsdays festival in June, at U.T. gardens and had a blast. I had never visited them. If anyone hasn't been, I would really encourage you to go. They are open every day from dawn to dusk and have their own parking lot for visitors. It is free to the public! Happy gardening, Carol :)

I don't think your going to proove anything with one plant. The beauty of the system is that I can keep 4 tomato plants in the space normally occupied by 1, so even if I get 9 less fruit per plant, I'm still up overall due to extra plants in the same space. It's how greenhouse growers grow tomatoes regularly. Two plants are grown side by side, one trained to the right and one trained to the left. Everything below the fruit clusters is removed. You can remove up to three branches a day for most fruit without any setback to the plant. Once that cluster is removed, the branches up to the next flowers are removed, so on and so forth. Usually in a long season, the tomato vine can grow around 150 ft in length. I did this last year in my SWCs and had great results all season long. I will try to document my procedures and results this year for you, but I cannot guarantee anything.