we want to get our soil tested....do you do the testing? we are in sacramento, calif. please contact us if you do.

Please consider studying what plants are most effective at removing nitrogen and other nutrients in rain gardens or bioretention areas. Another subject that I found a lack of information on is whether burning wood is "carbon neutral" or not. Many, many websites claim this because the regeneration of wood contains as much carbon as that which was given off from burning. This makes lots of people happy by burning wood thinking they are not adding to the CO2. The problem is that it is assumed that the new trees are getting all of the carbon from the atmosphere. The only info that I found that speaks of how much carbon trees consume (per pound of tree) indicates that only about 4% of that atmospheric carbon given off by the burning per year leaving 96% of it in the atmoshere. Consider that wood burning releases more CO2 per btu than fossil fuels and it would clearly have wood burners leaving bigger carbon foot prints that those using natural gas or oil. I think a good honest scientific study of this would have huge implications.

Olychick: I'm pretty sure Washington state's law (and Maryland's and maybe a couple of other states') refers to deceptive practices, not places that mistakenly send the wrong merchandise. Somebody at O clearly pulled the wrong item (reading- or vision-impaired?). Most times, at least regarding Amazon customer service, the merchant just tells the customer to keep the wrong item -- because the processing efforts aren't worth the money to the merchant -- but the OP would be hard-pressed to claim anything deceptive went on here. (Even if the item sold out before she could get it.) It's not a "gift." A gift is those personalized mailing labels that arrive in your mailbox with a letter saying "Won't you please donate to our cause in exchange for us sending you these lovely address stickers?" with the undertone of harassment. (And then some people do, feeling guilty.) Here's something from the Fla. atty gen's office: "If you believe that the unordered merchandise is the result of an honest shipping error, contact the seller and offer to return the merchandise provided the seller pays for postage and handling." (It goes on to say you should tell the seller -- in writing -- that after 30 days of no action, you will have no further responsibility for it.)

I saw a number of similar posts on different forums on the same topic and it is always from University of Rochester. hmmm..advertisement or something of the sort.