I do the same. Today I was suppose to be mowing the seven acres I didn't get done yesterday, but decided to put it off until later so it would be out of the hottest part of the day. Took off for the nearest town and just happened to stop at the tiny nursery where I picked up the Purple Cherokee plants about a month ago. Needed some cabbage and brussel sprouts. Well, the German Johnsons that I missed during the last trip there and a poor Mr. Stripey that had been marked down to a dollar because it was pretty darn tall, oh, and a 4 pack of a "Golden" something tomato caught my eye. When I went in to pay, the lady said the guy was going to mark down things on Thurs. and I commented that I came a day too early. She said he was just going to mark down the flowers and I told her he'd have to do the veggies soon because they were starting to look a little rough. Right thing to say? She told me she'd mark down the ones I bought today. Tomatoes, and cabbage .25 a plant and the brussel sprouts wound up being 6 for a dollar. Like I needed another 10 tomato plants having 25 already. Oh, I just love growing vegetables.

A tractor that "goes on its own" sounds like an accident waiting to happen. If the engine has a magneto type ignition, there will be an electric pulse generated when the flywheel is turned-that is basic physics. If there is no ground wire to discharge this pulse, then there will be a spark generated, and the engine will run, if it has fuel and air. It sounds like the magneto/ignition ground circuit is defective.

Alan Since nobody else will answer you i will tell you all i know about kings. 1. They realy are not fussy about the soil as long as it drains well and contains some sand. 2. They realy tend to look ragged when they get wind blown and sun burnt . 3. unless they have quite a bit of trunk their fronds will bend or break in a stiff wind . 4. I would dig my hole about as twice as big as the rootball make you a nice topsoil sand,perlite, petemoss and i always use a little miracle grow fill hole about half full.. I don't think you will have much problem just be careful with the roots and make sure you water enough so you won't have air pockets Good luck ! Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.junglemusic.net/palms/archontophoenix-alexandrae.htm

Personally I prefer my roses to go own root. I figure that,if they are vigorous enough on their own roots, the scion-the rose I want and bought-will eventually take over the rootstock, and i'll wind up with a longer-lived,better plant. In other words,the graft just serves as support for the rose until it is strong enough to "stand on it's own". If the rose isn't vigorous enough to grow well own-root, I still like the idea of it having some of it's own roots,with the rootstock to help it along; I don't see how that would kill off the rootstock,because the own-roots wouldn't be vigorous enough to do so. So I don't understand what you are worried about. I plant mine with the base of the scion's canes just slightly below ground level (I'm in Tuscany, Italy, so about a zone 8); no deeper, because what you do want to encourage is the creation of one single, strong own-root plant. If you plant it too deep, all of the canes can root along their lengths,thus creating a tiny thicket of small,own-rooted plant that just compete with each other and wind up ruining the entire situation.