Your probably right Marla, the market wouldn't like this the way I started the idea. I'm on one end of a "L" shaped Market(a permanent Market sight), when I need more room for display I bring my own table the I extend on the end. I'll bring my grandson with to handle my main display while I run the "BONUS BASKET" table. I'll have a sign that reads "BONUS BASKETS" "Customers ONLY-Please Line up Here. When There Gone There Gone!!" Somethink like that. If they All sell, Great! If they all don't sell by 4pm, (Market is 3pm-6pm). I'm hoping once the customers caugh on, I'll have a line of customers By 3pm sharp!! At 4pm I'll take the unsold items out of the baskets and display them separately, No more bonus buys. First Come/First Serve!! I don't want to take orders for delivery at the Market, done this before, sometimes the people who order ahead don't show up, even if I set a time. I'm Not interested in any per pay or pre order customers, at least not until early fall, I'm hoping to convert one of my GH's to Hoop House fall production! This will be NEW for me. I do know some about "CSA" but I'm not interested in this at this point. Deb

Susan, New Big Dwarf is one of my personal favorites even though its name is such an oxymoron. Lots of tomatoes have names that make no sense....."Big White Pink Stripe", for example is neither big nor white nor pink, but is rather a medium peach-colored tomato with some faint striping, and "Delicious" was not at all delicious when we grew it here. I guess it is expecting too much to expect for the names of veggie varieties to actually relate to the fruit themselves. I believe all the tomatoes I found at Swallowtail Garden Seeds that are new to the US market this year (Rambling Red Stripe, Pear Drop, Tumbling Tiger, Tumbling Tom Junior Yellow, and the Sweet 'N Neat seri) are from a subsidiary of Australian-based Terranova Seeds. The subsidary is called Vegetalis and it was formed for the purpose of developing vegetable varieties compact enough to grow in pots or small urban gardens and attractive enough to use as ornamentals. I don't know if Terranova/Vegetalis is marketing them directly to the wholesale customer themselves or if they've sold the rights to a seed wholesale producer/seller. Terranova used to have a line of Patio Vegetables and I think that line is now part of Vegetalis. I first saw some of these varieties at Thompson and Morgan, probably last year, and I think this is the first year for all of them to be offered here in the USA, other than Tumbling Tom Red and Tumbling Tom Yellow which also are from Terranova, which have been offered here in the US at least a couple of years. Vegetalis has some wonderful new varieties in the pipeline that are geared towards folks who grow in containers or in small, urban gardens where space is at a premium. Two new compact, bush-type squashes (one a winter squash and the other a zuke) offered either at Park Seed or at Thompson & Morgan this year (I know I saw them last night at one or the other last night while cruising the internet while watching Bedlam) are from Terranova/Vegetalis. They are "Balmoral" and "Buckingham". I haven't searched to see if they're offered anywhere else here in the USA yet. FYI--whenever I see a new veggie with a name that sounds like it came from the UK, it usually was bred by Terranova/Vegetalis, and often I see it first at Thompson and Morgan and then, a year or two later, in the USA. And don't forget Red Robin's "cousins" Orange Pixie and Yellow Canary. I grew them mixed as a 'border' along one side of a raised bed of indeterminates in 2009 and they produced very well. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Vegetalis Brochure Showing Some of Their Products

Trust me, I am just finishing renovating a tiny Master Bath, I know all about space issues! Since we had the same issue as you, two outside walls, we created our niche on the inside wall with the plumbing by building out the wall the width of a 2 X 4 and directing the pipe for the overhead shower behind the niche. With the added thickness of the thinset and tile the inside of the niche is almost 5" deep and with the granite overhang, the bottom shelf is almost 6" deep. We built it tall enough to add a second shelf of tempered glass. Pic of finished MBR niche showing built out end wall I will try and answer all the above questions. 1. If you want to use tiles to create your corner shelves, you would have to live with having your tiler create his own edge, bullnose wouldn't work, as I believe they usually come in only rectangles 3-4" deep. Porcelain are full body colour tiles, so the edge would be same colour as the tile. You would have to see your tiler's work to see if he is neat enough. 2. With custom glass, they just cut around the shelf. That's what my guy did. (One reason I went with framed glass in my guest BR, frameless was more than I wanted to spend with custom) You obviously have them come and measure for the glass after the shower is built. 3. The granite shelves are installed as the tiling is done, so the bottom of the granite sits on the edges of the tiles, and then the next row of tiles is thin-set over the shelf, so that it is securely stuck in place between the two rows of tiles. I am guessing they must have to cut out the top tile to fit around the shelf. (In a niche, the tiles are all on the same plane). I used tempered glass for my second shelf in my MBR niche, as my granite was very thick (I used granite for the bottom shelf sitting on the bottom of the niche). 4. Yes, I have seen grab bars with glass shelves. Try Moen 5. Definitely register for Houzz. You can create your own ideabooks, and save all the pictures that you like.

Thanks everyone! I really hope you do like it and think it's worthy as a raffle prize. Maybe you can understand why, with this much work, I consider my basket alone to be the prize. :p I'm not sure if they'll be doing randomly drawn winners for all the items or if they'll do what they call a Chinese Auction -- where you buy a bunch of tickets and put any number of them with any item that you'd like to win, then they draw the winners from those piles associated with each item. A Chinese Auction would definitely be better for a basket like this! I also meant to say that this is what's called a twilled basket. It's a fairly complex pattern and when you mess up the pattern during weaving it takes a couple more rows before you notice it, and then it takes about 1/2 hour to find where you initially missed the pattern, and then you have to rip it out to that point and start weaving again. I only messed up once! LOL! PS: They just returned my phonecall about my donation -- she said they're doing great w/ cash donations this year but don't have much for the Chinese Auction, so "they'll take anything". pffffttttt! wait til she sees this! :O) This post was edited by party_music50 on Fri, Dec 6, 13 at 9:35