I'm reading' your uncivilized debate posts thinkin'...we couldn't be further apart. Then I read some more and one of life's truest maxims begins to reveal itself again. If you live long enough eventually you're gonna find that you've got something in common with everybody. In this case it's more than just bein' Libras, seems we're cousins of a sort. Aubergine and capsicum by way of the family tree that is.Love the cheese site and I'm makin' the cauliflower dish tonight, looks moi yum.

Manic OCD gardener here. Got me a couple of grants to study intensive wide row cropping, a variety of mulching techniques and early season harvesting techniques that I try to share with the local organic farmers.

Our best study year we grew 240 varieties of capsicums, 160 varieties of tomatoes, eight different aubergines, thirty different summer squash and a wide sampling of potatoes, cole crops, alums and greens.

Present project is a hydroponic backyard garden that doubles as a bog/biological filter for a striped bass aquaculture pond. Organic protein and veggies right at your back door.

Been pretty sick lately so everything's kinda on hold 'till hopefully next spring. Gettin' old ain't fer pussies. Anyway, just wanted to throw ya a line. I know we don't agree a whole lot but we're really not that different. Have a great day. - Jamie