comments and a couple of queries...

**"e.merge" h*@direct.ca**

Good morning.

I wanted to heartily recommend a couple of varieties (either for your
personal growing use or to write about....)

One excellent bean, new to me, is the Emerite pole bean. These beans
produce low down on the stems near the ground unlike many other pole types.
Pretty lavender-pink flowers as well as lots of tasty filet-type beans
which are pickable either at very skinny fashionable size, or you can wait
until they plump out bigger - they still taste fine. (sorry this sounds so
like catalogue writing, but it is the truth....!)

The other is Husky Gold tomato - I guess I thought it would be small like
the other yellows I have grown - these are big, and have a kind of a spicy,
lemony flavour.

Anybody else have particular varieties to recommend? 

I am also researching favourite tried and true late-summer/early fall
perennials.....opinions, please? Particularly ones which don't need much
water. I am interested in hearing from other zones than mine. (Vancouver)

The other query I have concerns a blue morning glory (Ipomoea) var. which a
japanese student gave me. I was unable to read the package as there wasn't
even any latin on it - anyhow, the leaves are variegated, and the flowers
are very beautiful - the petals are more wavy than the normal "Heavenly
Blue" ones. Also, they bear down low on the plant, and seem to almost trail
along the ground. Anyone know what the variety name could be?

Thanks.

Sharon H. Hanna
Writer & Urban Agriculturist
Member, Garden Writers Assoc. of America
(604) 736 1889

"Just Say No" to Chilean Sea Bass - an endangered species, harvested
illegally.  

Sharon's catalogue writing/recipes:
http://www.kitchengardenseeds.com

Xeriscaping/water-wise gardening article on Canadian Wildlife Federation
site, July 2002:

http://www.wildaboutgardening.org/en/whats_new/ten_commandments/hold_water.htm

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