Seeds by the ounce or more at GREAT prices from these folks!

http://www.everwilde.com/

A very nice tiny house!

http://www.realfarmacy.com/tired-of-paying-rent-build-a-tiny-house-like-these-folks-did/

The season has still quite a ways to go, and even though I've eaten lots of green pods edamame style, I already have oodles for next season. VERY vigorous and productive cowpea that appeared in the Joyner family garden some years back, an apparent chance hybrid of (Whippoorwill X Iron Clay).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285332/Follow-Islamic-way-save-world-Charles-urges-environmentalists.html#ixzz2bIWsTM3I

For years I've kept ants out of my pets' stews by setting the bowl in a tray of water with a few drops of dish washing liquid added to break the surface tension of the water. Surprisingly, I have a very minor roach problem here, but this set up catches maybe 1 monthly.

As Renee and I purged the grossest fridge in human history, we dumped "edible" stuff into a giant soup pot I'd just scavenged from a recycle bin and I did a slow simmer of it last night. Today it feeds chickens and ducks...waste not want not!

Even though my main interests in plants lie with food crops and Old Roses, I will always have a nostalgic soft spot in my heart for the old fashioned, tough, reliable, truly perennial pentas that were magnets for hummers and butterflies before well meaning breeders ruined them over the last 20-30 years or so. I feel beyond blessed to suddenly have three types of the red...in the lower left is the small-flowered, rangy growing species that was common in Tampa gardens until the early 80s...to its right is one I just bought at Bloom Garden Shop that is also tall and rangy BUT has larger flower clusters that I suspect is a very early hybrid...behind both is the much larger flowered BUSHY one that Mary Jo got as unrooted cuttings in 1992 that is growing like CRAZY out front with all the stiff-stemmed vigor of the early ones vs. the weak-stemmed, wimpy, short lived modern pentas that are little better than annuals. I rarely get hummers here so will be propagating all three BIG time to pepper my yard with, front and back plus share with friends. It is so cool to see three stages of development in one vase!