they asked for an updated video.. hence the one I posted.. will see.. they have been showing homes every day and doing bracket voting.. will see if we get in there or not.. but I know the one I watched today is over the top!!!.. we don't even come close.. but my hope is that at the least we get shown on there.. here is one of the ones from the vote today

http://lightsondisplay.com/201...

and yes I voted for them

I can see why you voted for them.

the animatronics blow my mind.. sooo beyond my capacity

I heard that!

we bought an animated singing christmas tree that has an audio jack that will move it's mouth and eyes to sound ... I took it apart and covered it with a halloween mask.. you can hook up a microphone line to it.. but if it's music it will look like it's talking to a drum beat .. would have to be just a voice on the track played through it to only do vocals ... I couldn't figure out how to sync up two tracks to play at the same time.. one with music and one with voice.. and only have the vocals play into the tree.. so I just hooked the thing up and it sung to music sometimes .. wish I had some electronics background and was able to make something myself.. but I don't.. so I had to cheat

Hey! Rap tree!

Greek to me.

could be any kind of music tree... we might end up using it separately from the light show... we have stand alone controller boxes for props .. we can record something and have the thing talking.. not sure yet

my neighbor was throwing away his tomato cages.. he offered them to me .. and of course I grabbed them

wrapped the legs.. ran electrical tape down the sides so it be rounder... 2 sets of green garland from the dollar store.. wrap lights.. and now have nice trees for the display

Wow! good idea (if you see everything as a decoration ...Ha!) but why would anyone throw away tomato cages anyway????

they are too hard to stick in our rocky ground.. and he bought small ones.. they are only about 3' tall.. pretty much worthless size

They'd probably be good for peppers (especially in pots). They make pretty cute little Christmas trees though. You are so creative!

thanks.. well don't think peppers will work for him.. he has less sun over there.. not that I have much.. but peppers won't work in my sunniest spot

Oh! You know I have almost no sun either but I grow all kinds mixed in with the tomatos and basil all mixed into the perennial wall. (I leave a strip for them near the front (lower) edge.) They add such nice color, they are like flowers too!

I try and try from seed every year.. the only time I get lucky and get a few.. if I buy already established plants.. which I do now and then.. I tried containers a few times.. my deck is sunny.. but they were just ok.. not overly abundant that's for sure

I buy plants from the local greenhouse which is privately owned. I probably pay a little more that at the big boxes but he has lots of greenhouses, his plants are started early and are quite hardy; by the time I get them they are strong stemed and often in flower. With our late season, although there is some variability depending on variety, they typically take a long time but I usually get 6 -10 on a bush and have to stake them. Do you pick off the suckers like with tomatoes? Once it is apparent that they are fully bloomed, I fertilize only with low nitrogen to limit leaf growth and pick off any suckers. For some reason they seem to like to be mingled with tomato plants as well. Both enjoy basil.

ooohhhh I didn't know about the suckers.. thank you!!!!

This is my fav fertilizer for peppers as well as tommy-toes (notice the low N in the NPK): http://www.espoma.com/p_consum...
Once fruit is getting established we don't want to encourage leaf growth.

Sorry, WAAAY OT here!

oh it doesn't matter... thanks for the info!!..here is a new video with Randy's new additions

I would have grabbed up those tomato cages too...was thinking about doing something similiar the other day