Seed starting soil is needed. Its also sterile and has no insects or diseases that can kill young seedlings. Suspect that they are being over watered, and lack sufficient light. If you do see yellowing leaves thats a sure sign of too wet soil. Potting soil might be fine for well established plants for outside, but you may also have very tiny fungus gnats in it that could infest every single plant indoors or out. The use of yellow sticky traps placed horizontally near the pots, as well as some careful observation is necessary. Do not use fertilizers for these young seedlings. Seed starting medium is made of things like shreaded coconut husks (coir) and a little perlite. I start seeds for many herbs and flowers indoors. Right now, I have over 150 plants growing from seeds, and have neary no losses once they are ready to be translanted outside. The fastest germination I had was with Brussels Sprout seeds. They took only two days to sprout and were over an inch tall in 3 days! Right now, all my petunias, oregano, impatiens, peppers, tomatoes, watermelon, and cantaloupe seeds are doing great under plant lights. I have the lights on a timer for about 18-20 hours per day. Plants do need a small amout of darkness time, but because plant lights are only low power substitutes for sun, they do need to be very close to the seedlings, like about 2-3 inches. My plant shelves are metal with 2'x4' shelves and use two 4 foot shop light fixtures with two lamps each fixture per shelf. They are attached with chains and are raised when the plant growth starts to touch them. In a tray of 32 pots of 2"x2" each will have single plant once they are at 2 inches tall. Natural Beginnings is a seed starting medium from Gardens Alive. Even though their prices are a bit high, I always prefer to use some of that medium with added Jiffy mix, a similar product, and any other sterile seed starting medium. These are all actually 'soilless'. Dill can reach a few feet tall and doesn't do as well indoors. The pots need drainage holes in the bottoms. All my seed staring has been very successful for well over 40 years now, and I will be picking peppers and tomatoes in early July, while everyone else still has only a few blossoms showing. I also use heat mats under my trays, and ove each with clear plastic dome lids. The lids get removed once the leaves touch them, then I also unplug the heat mats. If the mats are left on, they tend to dry the soil out very fast, so I shut them off and just grow by the room temperature after that. Before being planted outside, each tray is moved to my small glass greenhouse outside for about a week to 10 days, where the direct sun will 'harden them off'. This reduces translant stresses and gives the plants a lot of strength beforehand.

I am very sorry to hear about your mom - but now she is in peace How are you taking everything? OK I hope. The diuertics Yes it did help me, at first I tool them every day, Now (2 years later) I only take them when I am swollen. You can tell if you take your shin & press on it with a couple fingers ( right next to the bone, in the middle) hold it for a couple seconds, let go and if there is a dent & it takes a couple seconds to level off. You have allot of water in you system, take your pills. When I was prescribed the water pill (Bumetanine 1mg), the doctor also prescibed a pill that acts a loop to keep my potassium level up(water pills can lower your potassium) This pill was called Spironolactone 50mg. So I was told to take them together. The fruit is very good & don't worry if this is all you can eat, you body will tell you when you need something else. (sometimes this is all I eat) The Lactalose- Yes it is BAD it make me sick too! this is a laxative, but it also works with to fight the ammonia in the blood (which can cause memory loss) I never did take it very much but I was prescribed a power drink (Cholestyramine 4mg Powder)Two timea a day & it helps me a lot better. Constipation- Yes you have to always stay on top of that!! you are suppost to have 3 or 4 lose bowel movements a day. If I get constipated The bile backs up into my blood & causes me to itch, BAD! I bleed from these lestions on my skin. Its really bad I had to take light treatments 3 time a week with UVB rays, This did help. The AC - this is normal I did the same thing! Hes very sick. Never thinks about drinking again - this is great so if you have to deal with his smoking so be it , One thing at a time. When I ws in the hospital they told my mother I was not going to make it though the night, but then I did, but it seems like I have such a different out look on things, and I too said I would never drink again. And I still say that, matter of fact, I do not talerate drunks!! ANyway I started smoking too, but now I am thinking that I am going to quite because I am in tune with my body, and smoking is only hurting it, PLUS I just found out it is a big factor on liver cirrohsis. and I think to myself if I stopped drinking over night I can stop smoking too! What are some of the meds he takes? I have read & I take Ursodiol/Actigal 300mg 3x a day. this is a galstone med, but I have read a lot of people say this has helped there itching a lot. Night walking - I do the same thing & I eat most then too. They gave me sleeping pills. The thrush mouth, I get this every time I eat something that is not good for me. Recipes - Yes I will type some and send them. should I type them in this or e-mail them to you? OH! what is DB? What is your bothers name & how old is he? if you want you can let him ask me some stuff that is bothering him. that helps me a lot when I can talk to other people with the same. Can he use a computer? Take care, talk to you soon

That happens to a lot of women, when their kids leave home. I can see both sides of it. She was always involved with the kids. Your Dad needs to spend the rest of his life doing what brings him pleasure. It's a sad ending if he can't. People are funny. When my husband retired he wanted to take me everywhere, even to the beauty shop. He would have sat patiently in the car and waiting on me. I told him, if you keep taking me everywhere, I may lose my driving skills or confidence so I need to drive myself sometimes. He agreed, but he didn't like it to much. I learned to wait until he was in the garage working on something then say I'm going to the mall. He accepted that because he was involved in something and didn't want to clean up and leave it.

Fear of rejection--it's the curse of everyone in sales! Minnie's advice is excellent--start with your friends and go from there. In fact, start with yourself, make the items as if they were only for you to keep, plan on keeping them, but show them to people when you have the chance (you don't say what they are, so I can't be specific about how to do this) but if say, you have a great new design for a purse--make it and use it as your everday purse. Make it in a couple of different colors and keep the spares in your car. If someone expresses an interest in your bag, go to the car and show them the others. Always know exactly what you want for the item, and be ready to talk about why it's better than anything else out there. Annie