[sockmonkey]

You mentioned Burpee earlier..did anyone see the "Super Sauce" tomato on the cover of one of this year's Burpee catalogues? It was huge, and it said, "actual size" - one tomato fills a jar. A Roma that weighs 2.5 lbs.

I'm not sure how I resisted ordering it.

[Marcella]

Somewhere I found how to use Stevia (the plant whose leaves are many times sweeter than sugar):

STEVIA
Step 1
Pick off the leaves only of the stevia plant, and lay them between two paper towels to create a drying rack.

Step 2
Place the drying rack in the sun for several days until the leaves feel completely dry and crispy to the touch.

Step 3
Grind the leaves with a mortar and pestle or spice grinder until you have a fine stevia powder.

Step 4
Use this stevia powder in recipes as a substitute sweetener for sugar, starting with 1 tsp. to replace 1 cup of sugar and increasing as desired. Adjust the amount to taste as sweetness depends on the time of year harvested, the variety of plant and the local growing conditions.

Step 5
Alternatively, steep one or two fresh leaves in the hot water for your tea, and remove the leaves when you strain the tea or pull out the bag to sweeten a cup of tea.