On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:28:39 -0700, mleblanca
wrote:

note: My other sweet potato vine, Blackie, has now
covered a 5' x5' space and is blooming.

Emilie
NorCal: the other HOT place

Mine has yet to bloom. It's enormous, tough. This year I didn't go
into a garden center after March. There is not one plant I need, have
room for or care to plant. I have a half acre of stacked and packed
garden beds. If I dug out half of what I have, I'd still have more
diversity in my garden than every house on the block. I think my
gardening "fever" days are gone. Now I'd just like to neaten up
enough for me not to be anticipating an elephant coming through the
bush; the way I saw it in the film "The Color Purple."

This year I have frogs in the ponds, not just toads. It's a cacophony
out there.