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This is my first update on my heirloom garden that I planted in pots and baskets on my deck. I have always grown a veggie garden but due to hip and back problems I am unable to grow veggies in the ground anymore. Well, this year I decided to try and grow my veggies in pots and baskets on my back deck. It's a large deck and I have collected pots and baskets of every size you can imagine. Thanks to a gift from an angel here on aidpage I was able to send away for heirloom seeds and purchase heirloom plants that were already established and let me just say this is the first attempt at growing heirloom plants so I was so excited to get them started. I planted green beans, radishes,green onions, romaine lettuce,2 different kinds of cucumbers, Three different types of tomatoes, one will be bright pink when ripe and one will be dark purple and one will have stripes. I also have eggplant,zuchini, and several different herbs. I am on my second planting of bib lettuce as we ate the entire first crop in one meal and I also found that those long white hot icicyle radishes do not grow in captivity (pots), they had the most beautiful foilage but the radish did not form from the root. However I have some red radishes that love growing in a crowd as well as a pot and their about ready to devour. My green beans absolutely love growing close to each other, they can reach out and hug each other anytime they want and their blooming right now, I have a second batch of a purple striped green bean growing and their about 3 inches high now. I planted my cucs in two separate large pots with 3 established heirlooms in each pot. I thought for sure that I would lose at least one plant but I haven't lost any and I put the pots up against a trellis wall my husband put up and it has taken some training but they finally got the idea that they needed to grow on the trellis and not on the floor of the deck. I even took stips of duck tape and gently taped each little stem as it got longer and finally the little feelers the plant puts out are finally clinging to the trellis so hopefully in 2 or 3 weeks I'll have some little cucumbers to eat because their packed with blossoms now. There is such a difference in heirloom plants and the regular ones that I have always grown, the heirloom have huge leaves and thicker stems and the blossoms from the beans and cucs smell wonderful and when I planted my seeds I put one seed at a time in the soil including the lettuce seeds and those babies are small. I didn't want to waste one seed as they are expensive compared to what I usually spend and buying an heirloom plant the is already established costs 3 times as much as a regular plant but I haven't lost one and they love their homes and don't laugh but I play a little boogie woogie music for them all day. I swear that music helps plants grow and mine like the old Glen Miller stuff with a tad bit of country and western thrown in for that extra zip. I have taken lots of pictures of my plants and I have to get some photo paper to print some out. I would put them on aidpage but I don't know how to get the pictures from where they are in my computer to a post on aidpage. Anyway this is my first post on my heirlooms and I will be posting more as I go. Heirloom means that the seeds I'm useing are direct decendants from the original plants brought over to our country by our forefathers and they have not been geneticcally engineered or messed with at all. They are not products of mixing of genes of other plants to make a more abundant super plant. Heirlooms are the real original thing, the tomatoes will not be perfectly round they will look deformed because thats the way their supposed to look and the cucs will not grow even and nor will they get large and they will be as imperfect as its forebearers but will taste fantastic. I intend to let some plants go to seed and will harvest them for next year. I also have several heirloom flowers in pots and hanging baskets and I have never seen anything as lovely as they have become. OK, thats it for now, I will keep you posted on the great heirloom adventure as it developes. sheshe030

Does anybody know what Mother’s Day really means? Well for me, I think it’s a day when you let your mother know how much you appreciate her for bringing you into this world. It’s a day when families should honor their mothers and spend this special day with their mothers.

I believe that Mother’s Day is celebrated all over the world. When I hear the words mother’s day the first thing came to my mind was flowers. After you have your first child that’s when you realize what it’s like to be a mother, it’s the greatest feeling ever. I felt proud when I hear my child call me mom, mommy, or mama. The most common present is flowers and fruit basket. I usual give my mother a card. If you can’t afford a presents just call and say happymother day, because it is the thought that count.

Hi, I am a sad Father in need of some money to put flowers on my son's grave.  I am down and out and have nothing and I need to let him know i am thinking about him and how much I miss him.  If anyone has any compassion, please helpme so I can brighten his resting place.  I am not asking for much, just some colorful, brightness, like my son gave to me.

My name is Cynthia "Maxine" Creamer.  Shortly after my daughter Grace was born, my husband left the family. Grace was born with Downs Syndrome.  I have been employed for six years with the Franklin County Sheriff's Office as Executive Secretary to the Sheriff.  However, I have a great desire to start my own business.  My purpose for having my own business is threefold.  I want to be successful in my own business, I want to devote more time to my family and Grace's developmental needs and education and I want to impart to Grace talents and skills so that she too may succeed in life.