. You are right, Allen -- that bad cold is like getting hit by a bus, all right.. Today is Day 6 for Jimmie, and really the worst. I don't se how I can escape it, just in time for Christmas. Jim decided that he should eat up a storm in order to recover quickly, and I am jumping thru hoops to provide enough.. but winter has arrived officially, because he requested a hot toddy (boiling water, Myers's rum, sugar and butter) and says it stops the cough -- .... Question: do you ever leave any of the onions in the ground over the winter? BTW, the assortment on my kitchen counter are probably growing so marvelously because they get watered every 2nd day with very dilute 10-60-17, or something like that. The 100 annual flower seedlings under grow lights are getting too tall and lush for their protected home, and they also get that dilute formula fertilzer. Many of them are full sized plants already! I should try it in Jimmie's vegetable garden next summer.... Penny, NY . . .-- ___________________________________________________________________ Why pay more to get Web access? Try Juno for FREE -- then it's just $9.95/month if you act NOW! Get your free software today: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.