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Okay, both of you, as you know, I know a lot - but not about growing “stuff”. My husband did the growing - I stayed in the house in the cool and supervised by looking out the triple size glass sliding doors.

I do have cheap gardening gloves because I hate dirt on my hands and under fingernails - it isn't going to happen.

I can get seeds growing, maybe. I have to do something with the freaking tobacco seeds since Johnny gave them to me. I do plan to get that stack up gardening thingy because I can't stoop down to the ground more than a few times or I can't walk the next day. That's lower back two degenerated disks. Had that checked years ago and surgeon said don't touch that as it could be worse after surgery. Said best thing is to not put on weight and I haven't but over the years, it gets worse.

There has to be a way to grow food without groveling on the ground. I do have some pots and could get more. Have an ornamental iron table out there and could put pots on that so I don't have to bend. I'll think of some way to get pots up.

So, I need to get Roma tomatoes it sounds like. If they grow well for Johnny, surely they will grow well here. I remember Lowes having a section of non-hybrid seeds - wonder if there are Romas there?

So, I will try and see what happens. My garden area is small behind my townhouse, but I found out years ago why my taxes are more than the other townhouses in here. There are only 6 townhouses with three bedrooms and mine is one of those but my tax was more than those and should be the same. Then, I found out my garden is bigger than the rest. That being the case, those other people can't grow much at all with gardens smaller than mine and I doubt they do.

I will go to Lowes Monday and get what I need to start seeds and look at seeds. If I get anything to grow, I expect you guys to sing the Hallelujah Chorus.

Don't buy Roma seeds. You aren't ready for that yet. After March, buy the plants from Wal-Mart or Lowes.

Starting tomatoes is fraught with pitfalls.

I'm a big Handel fan, so the Hallelujah Chorus is no big deal except for using the carpenter's clamp to get up to the high notes.

/johnny

I do have cheap gardening gloves because I hate dirt on my hands and under fingernails - it isn't going to happen.

I don't know how much you want to plant. There is an alternative to working in a garden. you can plant some of your stuff in double 5 gallon buckets. Tomatoes do great,sometimes better than planting them in the ground. I have grown broccoli and Romaine lettuce in double buckets.

Marcella, I have hip replacements and am not supposed to bend to the ground. Hubby built some raised gardens, plus I use molasses pots and syrup pots, plus styrofoam coolers, I punch holes in the various pots, put them on cinder blocks, holes in the cinder blocks face upward, to keep the snakes from using the holes for naps. Right now I have 10 empty surup pots ready for the community garden, I’ll use them for carrots, kohrabi etc.