Thanks Silvia! Your squash and melons are beautiful! Do you plant a second round of those, like your tomatoes, because they shut down in the heat? HereÂs a bunch of new pictures...come take a quick tour! ;-) A big group of my veggie containers. The German Black heirloom (front) goes into a larger square pot soon, and tomato cages go up. A couple of containers will probably move to other spots...if I can find any room, lol. Spacemaster Cucumbers, you can still see the hail damage...peppers & toms have torn leaves as well. :-( One cuc never came up, so I may drop another seed in the back, or just leave it. They will get an inverted tomato cage soon. My cucumber watchdog, lol. I also have a pepper watchdog, a tomato one... theyÂre babies and theyÂre everywhere! How lucky, eh? There must have been a mantis nest in one of the bushes against the building. Beware, you nasty mealy bugs and white flies! California Wonder Peppers: A California Wonder baby: Huge Sungold truss: Big Beef ...hopefully soon to break in color: Black Krim heirloom: Nasturtium ~ only one of 40 seeds germinated. Grrrr! From 2 different packs of brand new seeds, and I tried everything...indoors, outside...no luck. WhatÂs the secret? ~Caroline

Hi all, I'll get in on this action. I enjoyed the 2009 series a lot and told myself I'd join in if it started up again in 2010. 3/25/10, 12 days after planting: The lower of two sets of growing trays - mostly tomatoes. I raised the lights up to take the picture, so don't start yelling at me about how they're too far away. Shown here are: Anna Russian, Better Boy, Big Boy, Big Mama, Bobbie, Brandywine, Cowlick's Brandywine, and OTV Brandywine. All in all we are trying 22 varieties in all this year (assuming they all sprout, that is - still two holdouts). We are definitely looking forward to trying a bunch of new things as well as some old reliables. Happy Gardening everyone. - Chris

Could someone tell me how to resize photos in PhotoBucket? The large pics are great for detail, but they don't need to be as large as these. Some of mine waiting on warmer weather. Aiming for early April plant-out: A squash plant, a pepper plant, oregano, and five little dinky tomato babies, including the brandywine I was rooting for. SunGold F1s, SunGold Select II, and a couple of Earl's Faux. Opalka, Cowlick's Brandywine, & Earl's Faux.

Rosarama, im in no way taking credit for this growing medium, I learned about it on this forum. Its strickly for containers for what I know about it. The man that came up with it to my knowledge is Al Tapla. 5 parts pine bark, ground up cut up or whatever is done to it till its the average size of a dime. 1 part coarse perlite 1 part peat 2 cups dolimite, 1 cup of pro max minors, 2 cups of slow release fertilizer I mix every thing in a 36 gal container, a little at a time. I believe its the best thing since sliced bread. Look up and study Als mix. If your serious about growing maters in containers you should learn about Als mix, it would save you a lot of heart ache, and make you much more successful in growing in containers. Plant em if you got em. Sam