This all sounds wonderful George, you are lucky to live where you do. It will be a while before I can get started on any of this. The only reason for the peppers is the science project, yeah right. Your new stream sounds great. Jane > Here's what I'm starting at the moment: Chiles - Longhorn (mild), Cubanelle > (mild), Turkish Hot, Hawaiian Tabasco, Casabella, Ancho, Thai Hots, Big > Chile. Tomatoes - Yellow Pear, Homestead, Tumbler, Amish Paste, Dinner > Plate, (Heatwave II's will be started in April). Eggplant - Hybrid Dusky > and Louisiana Long Green. Squash- Waltham Butternut, Spaghetti, Green > Striped Cushaw. Also a bunch of Burpee's Best Burpless Cukes and some > edible gourd - Cucuzzi. That's just what has been started for the nonce. > More chiles will be started next month and probably more squash and > tomatoes. Can't even mention the direct seeded stuff that is on hand, > multiple beans, radishes, greens, lettuces, etc. With any luck the Shirley > clan will eat good this year. > > Miz Anne is out yonder yanking up monkey grass as I write this. When she is > done with her salvage operation we will yank up another 4 or 5 azaleas and > some other trash bushes she has in what, soon, will be my large herb bed. > My friend, often referred to as "Our Lady of the Personal Ponds", will be > here this afternoon. Angie makes part of her living selling crop insurance > and the rest by designing and installing garden ponds. She's helping me > with the design and installation of a head and foot pool connected by a > 30-foot "creek". All running down through the soon-to-be herb garden. In > return I will help her design and lay out a new herb garden at her home > plus build some PVC trellis for her. > > Life is good. > > George, on a very cool but sunshiny Saturday in SW Louisiana > > George