No pretreatment required. DO NOT COVER SEED AS LIGHT REQUIRED FOR GERMINATION. soil temp 70-72F taking 14-21 days to germinate. flowers 1st year from seed if started early.

my experience has been that if you cut the seed pods off verbascums, they will come back the next year too! j.

Oh my Gosh! My mind is backwards! I said I would take the September swap, and can the school spirit. I should be posting sooN! I guess because it is August, and this is the September swap, it did not hit me that this is next! LOL! We can do something like an all bean swap? That was an idea of mine for the new calandar. Probably those small flat rate boxes would be good for that since beans are heavy. I was thinking of doing an all bean swap, where you send in the beans to me and I redistribute. You send in one of those $5 flat rate Priority boxes, and I will send yours back in the same box with money to cover exact postage? It is a few bucks more than the tomato swap, but that is because it is beans. I really want to do such a swap. But maybe I will wait on this one so it works. Or, I had this as an idea. I am hosting Ethnic favorites in November, we can do that theme now, and then do the bean swap in November, after beans have been havested? I dont know, just trying to think fast. But this bean swap I really want to be a "go" at some point, even if we wait for January or February or something. But I assume I will be doing the mass tomato swap again, so it may conflict with that in JAnuary. Do you like the bean swap idea? Do you think people will not mind sending the $5 postage for a flat rate box? I just thought since beans are so heavy, that that would be actually cheaper sending flat rate then sending it by weight. Any quick ideas if you do not like these? Becky, I know you are out there! LOL! We can wait, I am just thinking fast since I should be posting the September swap soon. Any comments? Help please! LOL! Christy

Southerners know how to live! When DS and I visited Charleston(then went on to Savannah) last summer, in the evenings we would drive to one of the historic neighborhoods, park the car, and walk. We would catch a glimpse inside a few of these beautiful domiciles with their wallpapered lr's, chandeliered dr's, and foyers with magnificent and unimagineable millwork~the word *grand* doesn't describe such beauty! Patricia's home looks to be such a home. Next week I'll be taking my 3 dd's to Savannah so they can also experience this charming historic city.. I can only hope one of them will take that evening stroll with me