Kimberly wrote: I'm in LaGrangeville, and boy, are we in the Hudson Valley lucky when it comes to growing stuff! ========= You're right about the Hudson Valley. There are people who claim (and rightly so, I think) that there's something in the soil in your area that makes tomatoes taste particularly good. Much like the sulpher in Vidalia, Georgia being the reason that the Granex-type onion that's grown there is so much sweeter and better tasting there than anywhere else it is grown. Catharine/Atlanta, zone 7b