Whoa,...reeeeeally?! There is actually a tomato cultivar named for the Jersey Devil?! How totally kewl is that?!! Here is a link that might be useful: Jersey Devil

I don't have any off your wants but I have a LOT of heirloom tomatoes.. Big Rainbow, pink brandywine, yellow pear, black prince (coming soon), and a few others I can't think of... Check my list, I'm interested in your Black Cherry (Heirloom cherry tomato) Black Pear (Heirloom tomato) and I'm REALLY interested in: Cherokee Purple (Heirloom tomato)

After about three weeks of filling seed requests, I am out of many of the seeds originally listed. The following list reflects the seed varieties remaining after I filled the requests that came in today's mail: Amish Gold Ananas Noir Beefsteak Black Ethiopian Brandywine Dad's Sunset Delicious Granny Cantrell's German Red Green Giant Hess Husky Cherry Gold Husky Cherry Red Husky Gold Husky Pink Husky Red Jerry's German Giant Kellogg's Breakfast Kimberly Kosovo Lillian's Yellow Marianna's Peace Millionaire Olena Ukrainian Omar's Lebanese Perfect Purple (akd Purple Perfect) Pierce's Pride Pineapple Purple Calabash Red Fig/Red Pear Roughwood Golden Plum Southern Night Tappy's Heritage Tiny Tiger Ultimate Opener Wapisipicon Peach Wayahead Yellow Brandywine, Platfoot Yellow Pear Dawn

Lynn, I see that you and I still like many of the same tomatoes. LOL I think you will like Jubilee and Jaunne Flammee'. Both are really great performers in our heat, but your heat probably is worse than ours. Heatwave is iffy. It does produce in the July and August heat but the flavor is a little lacking (but you know that I say that based on my "heirloom-preferring" tastebuds). In your soil and your growing conditions, it may taste better than it did in my soil and growing conditions. I do think Heat Wave II tasted better to me than the original Heat Wave. Brandy, Sorry if I confused you by referring to seeds sown directly into the ground as wintersown. On GardenWeb, winter sown does refer to seeds sown in containers and exposed to the cold temps. To me, though, anything I plant in the winter in wintersown, which probably would drive the people on the wintersowing forum nuts! LOL If you want a good explanation of wintersowing, go to the wintersowing forum here at GardenWeband read Trudi's FAQ. It is very informative. I sow larkspur, poppies, etc. into the ground anytime between November and February, depending on when I get around to it. This seeds will sprout in the cold and form tiny ground-hugging rosettes. You won't see much vertical growth, but they are making roots all that time and, when the spring conditions are right, they start to grow like crazy. (Lots of cool season weeds, by the way, grow exactly the same way....germinating in fall or winter's cooler weather and flying under the radar until spring). Some plants don't like to be transplanted, and for me, poppies and larkspur are two of those. (I have transplanted poppies before, but they aren't crazy about it because they have long taproots.) So, wintersowing them in containers doesn't work because they get mad when you transplant them into the ground. As far as the purple coneflowers and hollyhocks....I tried numerous times to start them indoors under lights. I was able to do it with the hollyhocks pretty easily, but the coneflowers just didn't want to sprout. Yet, they would reseed readily in my garden. So, I wintersowed some a couple of years ago and had great results. As for the hollyhocks, there is no reason to take up a lot of space indoors under lights because I can direct sow them into the ground (if it is not a rainy winter) or in flats. They transplant easily and are pretty cold hardy. I seem to get higher germination rates with the ones sown outside than I do with the ones sowed inside. I love hollyhocks and have them every year. However, if a really, really wet rainy year, the seed often rots before it can germinate because I have horrible, slow-draining red clay soil. Your problem with hollyhocks last year probably had more to do with the excessively wet weather, the lack of sunshine as it seemed to stay cloudy FOREVER, and the late cold spells. Those three conditions caused lots of problems with plants here that are usually pretty easy to grow. Between "the cold" and "the wet", a lot of roots were stunted and the plants just didn't grow. I noticed this weekend that hollyhocks are already sprouted in my garden. They are small and low to the ground, with 2 or 3 leaves about the size of a nickle or so. You could direct sow hollyhocks in the ground now or wintersow some in a flat or other container. My main challenge with wintersowing is that the cats like to lay on any flat I plant anything in, even if I have lids on the flats! The dogs, of course, like to walk on the containers, and the wild things, like racoons and possums, like to paw through the soil looking for whatever. Also, if I am not careful, the wind carries them all away, even when I think I have them in places where they are sheltered from the wind. Dawn