I know this is not the time of year to take cuttings normally, but maybe someone has extra's of these rooted. Daydreams, Dorthea, Lizzy, Sam (Lizzie & Sam are my parents names.) I have some very small Frosty Pink, Mountain Magic, Isadora and Dr Seuss rooted, or would take new cuttings.

Diane, I'm not sure about the quality of pickle you'd get from Armenian Cucumbers since they're actually from the melon family and not the cucumber family, but I know people who use them for pickles. Robert, I'm sorry you didn't get more plums. I have had years like that where a seemingly potential bumper crop just disappeared before it ripened. This year we have had an amazing crop and I still have a lot of harvesting left to do, but so far I have harvested almost 300 lbs. of plums and peaches from a total of three trees. I did thin appropriately, removing approximately 92% of the young fruit, and even after that thinning, the crop has been heavy enough to break many limbs on the peach tree and a few on the plum trees. The birds and insects have had their share of the fruit, but with such a plentiful harvest, we haven't missed the ones they've gotten. That's why I am awake....a marathon canning session during the coolest part of the day, which of course, means canning at night. I have the last batch in the canner now and then will go to sleep and get whatever sleep I can. Paula and everyone else, You can make your own garlic spray by combining 1 to 2 cloves of garlic in a blender or food processor with 1 quart of water. Strain out the solids. Add a few drops (not too much) of a true soap, like Murphy's Oil Soap or any of the vegetable-based Dr. Bronner's soaps or an insecticidal soap, but NOT a dish detergent, which is detergent not soap and can burn foliage. To make it more potent add a hot pepper or two when you mix the garlic and water together. The use of dish detergents, like Dawn, is recommended all over the web but is not a good idea. Detergents are not the same as soap and can burn foliage quite easily. I believe the recommendation to use dish detergents is an unfortunate carryover from the days when it was recommended to use dish soap because back then it really was SOAP, but nowadays it is detergent. I use Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap in my concoctions, although once the weather is hot, I avoid soap sprays as much as possible because they can burn foliage when used here at temps over 85 degrees. I've seen the commercial Garlic Barrier spray at some local farm stores (TSCs) in southern OK and north central Texas and at organic supply nurseries in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I've linked an image of one of those products. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: This Is The One Sold In Our Stores

I just used regular acrylics and then sealed the crap out of it! lol You know me and my Uncle Sam obsession! lol This was actually a design for a pillow, but I have a big stack of tiles and thought...hmmmm. I know primitives are not everyone's taste, but I love em!

Aunt Betty(mom's sister)and Uncle Lyle Uncle Bob(mom's brother)and Aunt Carole Uncle Bob(dad's brother)and Aunts Evelyn,Fran and Ann Aunt Mary(dad's sister)and Uncle Rich Aunt Joan(dad's sister)and Uncle Windy(Wendal) Lots of great aunts and uncles on my mothers side. Not so much on my fathers, might have had something to do with the fact that my dad's father was a good 20 years older than my mother's father. So the greats on dad's side were old and gone by the time that we came along. There was such an age difference between my two grandfathers that I remember one calling the other sir.