Jeep461 Confederate Rose is a plant that likes water. If you can find a neighbor who has that tree any branch that is cut off will if just stuck into a bucket of water will take root. Strip off all the leaves and put a nice stick in water and keep in the shade you will see white nubs form soon then the root will not take very long before they are big enough to put into the ground. You need to keep it watered until it gets established. They can get over 20' tall and quite wide. They can be cut back to the ground each year to help control their size and shape The trunk can get to 12" across. I had mine cut back to 3' last fall and it it over 8' tall now. They bloom in the fall when the weather starts to cool down. In the summer months they will lose leaves when the weather is hot and dry but will come back in the fall with cooler weather and moisture. When I got my first start is was a 3' stick. Put this into the ground and it just sat there until we had a hurricane which brought lots of rain which knocked it over and had to be replanted. From all that rain it took off and ended up being about 8' tall and full of blooms in October, it has never slowed down since then so I have nice shade for my back window. I know this is the BOP site but you mentioned Confederate Rose so I wanted to throw this in for you. Thanks

Here's my recipe for Za'atar - I am very fond of sumac! ZaÂatar 1 cup sumac 2 cups roasted, ground sesame seeds 1/2 cup dried ground thyme 2 tablespoons dried oregano 2 tablespoons dried marjoram 2 tablespoons dried savory 1 tablespoon salt, or to taste (optional) Mix all the ingredients together except the salt. Taste and add the salt if desired. Keep the zaatar mix in a tightly closed jar (the sesame seeds will last 6 months maximum); it will stay fresher in the refrigerator or freezer than at room temperature. Use as a dip for pita bread. To serve, dip pieces of bread into a bowl of olive oil, then into the zaÂatar, and eat. And I've always puzzled over the inclusion of both oregano and marjoram in the recipe - I've always used the two interchangeably, and can't tell the difference between the two in a dish! So I just use Origanum vulgare (common oregano) in the recipe. Marjoram is a closely related, but different, plant - Origanum majorana - which is a little less rampant than oregano. What species of aloe do you have? If it's Aloe vera, you can just take one of the many 'pups' (off-shoots). You might shed tears over leaving your beloved garden, but I hope the move goes well, and you get to create another one in your new home! Meanwhile, continue by taking as many cuttings and divisions as you can! Sounds like you're doing OK so far.

I doubt that any Bosnians would have grown it b'c it was only recently named. Please let me explain. The name of the variety is Vjerino Paradajiz Sjeme. and many folks translated the middle word so they called it paradise and not tomato, as it should have been translated. Actually the translation is Vera's Tomato Seeds. I was given the seeds by a friend whose mother inlaw lived in Bosnia and it was her mother inlaw who named it b'c I asked Leslie, my seed source, if she would do that so neither Leslie or myself had to name a previously unnamed variety. its'a lovely pink heart with very good taste. And I SSE listed it in 2003 and have been offering seeds for it for a few years in a seed offer I do elsewhere but my seeds are so old now I wouldn't send them to anyone. I've linked below to the page at Tania's Tomato data base for this variety and you can see the background, some pictures and traits of this variety and the one place that sells seeds for it. So it would not be known in Bosnia with this name b'c Leslie's MIL named it only when she sent the seeds to Leslie, who gave it to me. Paradajiz means tomato, not Paradise although there are many of us when eating a nice fresh fruit of a variety often think we might be transporting ourselves to paradise, but that would be tomato paradise. (smile) Hope that helps. Carolyn Here is a link that might be useful: Vera's Tomato Seeds

Thank you robeb and ajsmama! I decided that I'm not ready to pull the plants yet. Ajsmama, all four of my plants show leaf signs, but only one (so far) has lesions on the stem. I will take photos tonight and post them, but over the weekend I removed tons of affected leaves and sprayed really well on Sunday. Since then I've removed only about 10 more leaves and I don't see any spots on the fruit so I think if anything I slowed it down. I did put some leaves in a ziplock bag to send for testing, but dear husband forgot to put them in the mail so they got moldy. I'm still planning to send some for testing as I remove more leaves. Overall, the plants don't look too bad considering the battle and if the LB (or gray mold - still not sure, but I hear the treatment and outcome are about the same) doesn't get used to the spray and start spreading more quickly I might actually be able to harvest some tomatoes. I have over 50 green tomatoes on my 4 plants....I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Of course I'm also worried that even if they ripen on the plants they won't taste good, but come on - it's my first year and I'm not giving up without a fight. The spray says to apply every 7 days, but I'm really tempted to spray again tomorrow. I wonder if there will be any benefit to that, if it won't make a difference or if it will actually do more harm......