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RickCorey said:How to motivate a guy? The first word that pops into MY mind is "beer".

I found these in the Plant Database ... maybe you could let drop that you have high hopes for the "Beer Plants" if only you can put them out into cold frames soon enough ...

Leontopodium beerianum
Boronia beeronensis
Commersonia beeronensis
Gladiolus debeerstii
Habenaria debeerstiana

Not to worry, I can assure you that he will have a beer on the 4-wheeler.

RickCorey said:If you have lots of glass doors or windows, and some thick wood, making some temporary cold frames need not take a long time. Maybe just lay down cardboard over grass and weeds, then the cold frame over that. Next yar is soon enough for permanent cold frames. If you have any south-facing structure or wall, you might even just lean the glass panels along the wall and hope no high winds come along.

Unfortunately, our house faces south and there's really no where to lean glass panels. There's the garage, then the kitchen porch, then the front porch and then the rest of the house is mostly shade. =\ Our last home was set up beautifully. The breakfast area faced south and had windows all the way around ... PLUS two skylights. Now THAT would have been the perfect greenhouse. But back then, all I had time to grow was Christmas Cactus, Golden Pathos and spider plants!

RickCorey said:It was very refreshing to see a new seed-starter jump directly to the stage of "way too many seedlings". It took me years to become SUCCESSFULLY that excessive.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! I'm just a wee bit impulsive!