Thanks Silvia! You're wonderful! Did y'all have any luck with the stuff I sent you? I'm trying to remember what I sent. Cilantro? Arugula? I'm so ready to have fresh arugula all the time again. I've tried it in pots in the shade, but my shade is so far from where I remember to water that it hasn't worked very well. I had one pot that somehow produced well by accident, from late-set seeds that got stuck out in the shade to avoid the termite tent in early June. Surprised me when I found Arugula in July that was light-colored from the shade, but tasty, tender and not at all bitter from the heat. So I figured I'd try more shady arugula, but then I forgot to water and got nothing. The green zebra I'm trying this year is from you, along with some ground cherries I'm really looking forward to and the green cherry doctor and coure di bue you sent me. I have extra Arkansas Traveler if you're interested. And some interesting hot peppers. Bellingrath Purple and Hungarian Wax (a hot banana.) I know I bought both because they were supposed to be good for our climate, and I'm going to try again this year with them, but I didn't have any luck last year. Want to try them? In looking at the seed box, I also have an Ecuadorean Aji from you I'm looking forward to. And some acorn and delicata squash, but as I recall, you already grow those. Let me know what I can send you in return. Susannah

OMG I had a post all typed out and this thing ATE IT!!!! Man, I wish I hadn't missed the Mini Roses Cindy! I didn't have the Cleopatra, I have Orange, 1 Bengal Tiger Baby, small mini red Cannas. Please do list a wish/wants list Cindy so if there is anything we have we can offer you then we will ;). New Request from Cindy: Zebra Grass I am looking for ANY grasses I plan on putting in a grass bed at the top of our driveway so we don't have to mow up there anymore :) I put in some rocks with the house number all ready and our neighbor gave us and ornamental solar light decoration to go up there!!! Tammy you asked me how the spiderwort looked lining the drive, there wasn't as much left over after the swap as I thought there would be. I DO have some I got from my mom and a friend though, not sure if it will cover the lenght of the drive or not. And I haven't really decided if I want that or that red mini grass I forgot what it is called at the moment... OK posting thread #3 now too. :) Fran

Those are looking great! Here in zone 7 MD, I am thrilled to see the first tomato fruits breaking color. It won't be long now to picking time. This has been a wonderful growing season here. The steady rain has been great for the garden (and weeds, but I am staying ahead of them). The pole beans and cukes are just leaping up the remesh trellis. Even the corn is growing well (had 2 trees that shaded the garden removed last Fall) and they get 2 hours more sun per day. The lettuces and radishes are lush and full. This might be one of the best garden years ever for me.

Every year my tomatoes have a theme. One year it was oranges, last year it was whites and container varieties. This year it's blacks and a few others, including the return of a couple kinds. Black Pepper- new this year, a paste Black Prince- new this year, 5 oz fruits Black Krim- new this year- beefsteak Black from Tula- new this year, saucer Dwarf Wild Fred- a return from last year. One of the best tomatoes of last year, the others being White Queen and Snow White Cherry. A nice container plant, and a tasty black getting compared to the other blacks this year. Jaune Flamme- a return from 2014. Hands down the best tomato of the year, great fresh, canned, and dehydrated. 2-4 oz fruits, compact growth habit topping off around 5', suitable container plant. Pink Bumblebee cherry- new this year. I try to have an interesting bicolor every year, last year was Copper River. I plan on doing a cherry/tiny eats compare year in a couple years, and need to test out a couple of little ones every year too. Sweet Pea Currant- new this year. Just another little eats, but container growable. I also have clones going from some of the indoor/overwintered plants I took in because I had seed stock failures last year, or because I wanted to test out their limits, lol. So a couple of these might stick around through the summer if I need seed stock off of them, but it's more likely that either they will get sold off come spring. Totem- a super hearty container plant. Sets seed well indoors and out, takes cuttings/cloning very well, and overwinters in the kitchen window nicely. Germination rate is high, and early growth stays small. Silvery Fir Tree- not so suitable for indoor overwintering, it likes a bigger pot. And it gets leggy. Will grow out for seed stock if I can coax the clones along till spring. It's a pretty ornamental I want to revisit in the future, so I want to save seed for the sake of saving seed. Beaver Lodge Slicer- Healthy plants, decent in containers. Taking cloning pretty well. I have a half dozen seed stock tomatoes growing and ripening right now, may or may not keep cuttings. A right nice and early setting red, it grows well around here and sells well. Copper River- really a lovely plant with nice flesh, I want to save this seed for the sake of saving it more than anything else. I have one mother plant that is a long vine, very leggy in the kitchen window. It is finally producing a nice sucker I can cut for cloning, and two small flower clusters forming.