>At 10:14 AM 2/1/99 -0600, you wrote: >>I'm glad to hear your peppers are up. I got mine planted yesterday so I >>will look later this week and see if anything is up. I didn't see any >>sprouts this morning when I looked, maybe too early. I just got my >>propagating mat this year and set it up on a wooden table. Hopefully that >>will be ok, if not I will follow your advise on the aluminum sheet. >> >>Jane (where it's cold and grey and windy and we are expecting white showers >>later today) >> >Jane, note that was expanded aluminum. Expanded any metal would have >worked. The finished product has diamond-shaped holes, sort of a coarse >screen. I think a solid aluminum sheet would have caused the same problems >that the plain formica top did. Margaret Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Jane