Cuz you and Soba, are, like, bringing SEXY back!

Woah, I'm first.
That sounds like a lovely weekend, with plenty of thoughts of impending doom from soba.

Will you move to NYC and be my new best friend? I don't know you outside of reading your blog for the past few months, but I know I could use some more humor like yours in my life.

Have fun cat dancing!

So close to being first!

Are you going to plant them in the yard eventually? Or just fill up the bathtub with dirt and buy a sunlamp and hang a cloud mobile up to trick the peppers into thinking they're outdoors?

I vote for the latter.

Oh, and tell Francisco to stay the HECK away from the chili plants!

Also, I was first when I started writing my previous comment. Y'all are speedy.

I might be the only human being dumb enough to admit out loud that I am spending Friday night dancing in the living room WITH MY CAT.

Awesome!

Chili, hot pepper, whatever. Monkeyz don't eat spicy foodstuffs.

Sounds like a PERFECT weekend to me, Laurie!

Plus, I need to get a neighbor like your Mrs. Lee. Korean BBQ? YUM!

Have fun dancing! And shopping at the Korean market.

When you plant the peppers outside will you ring them with barbed wire? So that your gardener won't "accidently" dig them up or cut them back before the little peppers are ready? Better to be safe!

I have discovered, much to my fiance's dismay, the game SongStar. It's fabulous, although my singing is not.

Oh God, I had not even considered the Francisco portion of this equation.

GREAT.

I guess I will have to have a long talk with him involving tears and bribery and giving him a 12-pack of beer. OH THE CHALLENGES of being a farmer!!!!

Oh man, don't you just love bulgogi? I am excited for you about the peppers, Pequins grow wild here. You still have time to try that square melon thing again.

Uccelina, hehehehe, I could have the indoor pot farm of the neighborhood! Except I would be growing peppers, not pot. The only thing is... how would I shower? Or does a woman who challenges her felines to a DANCE OFF no longer need to shower? heh

Oh, Laurie, Trust me, Francisco won't hurt those peppers. He will know exactly what they are. You may even have to share.

You are brilliant! Awesome!

I hope your green thumb is improving. You have the best and the worst of neighbors. Congrats!

I *finally* heard that song the other day (LOVE it), so now I am all hip to the lingo of this here blog.

Oy. Am I pathetic. I'm not even cool enough to dance around the living room with my cats on a Friday night. I need to sort out my knitting needle drawer: leftover yarn ends have eaten a circ I know I have. How cool am I?

Looking forward to the April horoscope, but now I'm going to go back and read March because I got my pay slip today that said my pay was $21.56, and they didn't even bother to direct deposit it. So I'm wondering whether the Mercury thingy is impacting my financials. I have 3 new kitties at home, but they are too young to dance. Have a great weekend!

This weekend I am going to make my husband (Mr. Motorcycle) read all about your awesome new Korean neighbor & the awesome food she brought you. He will weep tears of sadness over someone getting the Korea BBQ instead of him and then be spurred into action and make Korean BBQ for ME! (He is 1/2 Korean 1/2 Camoflauged Soldier - cruely adopted by plain old norveegan white folks)

Red hot peppers! I think you and Soba should be dancing to "Jackson." I'm goin' to Jackson.....

PS - If your parents get all wild and crazy in their JLo Tour Bus & make it to my neck of the woods (practically right down the street from Annie & all) I would love to visit them for you. I'll even take pictures (You could come too)

FIRST!!!! FIRST!!!

oh.

FIRST!!!! FIRST!!!

oh.

you guys are on the ball

um, is the april surprise an anti-spam conundrum? is this "new feature" designed to give people time to cool off from their angry comments?

If all goes well with the crop this year try "Serrano" peppers next year. They are little and very hot too and my last name. I love to tell people I am "one hot little chile pepper".

I want that meat!

AHHH! It's nice to know that someone else is enjoing my kind of weekend. Except at my house I dance around with the kidletts - and we add Wierd Al to the mix. 'Cause we're all White and Nerdy, and damn proud of it!

Uh, your neighbor cooks you food because she has goodness on her right side and crazy all around. Y'all two are in the same boat. :)

We have the Kabuki-Sumo Dance Floor at our house, which is any available big piece of cardboard, flattened out so cats have a place for their elaborate dance/headwash/beatdown rituals. They do the dance/headwash/beatdown thing in any case, but the cardboard makes it more exciting and so much noisier.

Dang, that BBQ looks good.

Mmm, Korean BBQ. It looks Tasty! I want a neighbour like that.

All the best with the peppers. Have you ordered the neon sign tell Fransico to "NO TOUCH!" yet?

I'll bet Soba secretly lurves the dancing -- she of the awesome cat booty.

Thanks for such a cheery post, Laurie. I was kind of down and cranky until I read it.

Sounds like a great weekend. And as far as concern about garden mojo -- I am death to houseplants -- my mother in law gives me the ones she doesn't like because she cannot bear to kill them, but she knows I will. However, my garden (knock on wood here) has always thrived under my care. Have fun!!!

But I love bad ghetto slang from the 80s! In fact I have written two e-mails today which consisted of only two words, "Cool, yo."

For a minute there I thought you said PENGUIN seeds.

That's going to be a heck of a lot of peppers!

We just started the seeds for our garden in our basement a few days ago, so ours aren't quite as far along as yours (but that doesn't stop me from going to check for seedlings way more often than is neccessary).

Enjoy your weekend.

Arg. Now I have that song stuck in my head. But worse - I'm replaying the spoof version, "It's the Most Wonderful Kind of Brassiere."

Get those peppers into the sun! They will get leggy and then flop over, and there is no rescuing the flopped plants -- trust me on that one.

Sounds like you've EARNED this relaxing weekend.

Cat dancing sounds like a great Friday night. My cat Marta especially likes dancing to "Drive My Car" by the Beatles. She's also cool with "Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai, and will sometimes get down to Michael Jackson as well.

Maybe you can bribe Francisco with peppers this year... he gets a pepper for every shrub he spares! :) I love those little disky planty thingies... aren't they the coolest!?!?

At my house, otherwise known as The House Where The Strange Woman Who Talks To Her Dog and Her Azaleas Lives, we are planning a throwdown for tonight. Me and Precious (my puppy whose first birthday is April 1) will do our usual Happy Friday/Beyonce/Black Eyed Peas Damn Ain't It Fun To Be Young Please God Don't Let Me Hurt My Back Dance somewhere around the 3rd glass of wine. Havarti Cheese and black olives to be followed with more wine and then . . . the sleep of the dead! I hope you have as much fun as I plan on having.

Francisco is the first thing I though of when you announced your pepper farm. Please bribe him or threaten him to leave them alone. Plus put up large signs that say "NO TOQUES!!"

Are my sister and I the only ones who wonder why in "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" there is the line: "there'll be scary ghost stories, and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago". Who tells scary ghost stories at Christmas? Is this a tradition kept secret by a privileged few?!

Dearest Laurie,
I think you may have a long lost relative on the East Coast. Cats, Yarn, Underwear Overload. Sounds like you may have been seperated at birth - you might want to call your mom about this....

http://sheepishannie.blogspot.com/2007/03/you-would-have-done-same-thing.html

I hate it when I get a song stuck in my head ... just cyclin' over and over!!! Yesterday, my song of the day was from the Casper the Friendly Ghost theme ... Ya know ... Come along now and join the party, Come along now and have some fun ... Argh!

Your weekend sounds truly devine! I am so excited about my knitting adventures - and am going to buy some more yarn (Like I need more ... you all should see my closet of shame!!!) - but I am specifically buying yarn for making slippers that will be felted - my first project (other than the scarves, simple dish cloths and baby booties!!). The real song here should be "I'm so excited!!! I just can't hide it ... "

So - I do have one question though ... Are the Addi Turbo needles truly the best? Is bamboo just as good? What do you think?

Sue

Perhaps Mrs. Lee is an experienced gardner and knows peppers? No Francisco over there (right?), and she's home so they won't suffer the same fate as your garden did last year in that ridiculous heat. She would probably like to help Julie with her widdle plants.

Dance on!

uuummmm ... doesn't that song go "It's the hap-happiest day of the YEAR"? ... not "week"? You know, so then it rhymes with "and everyone telling you, Be of good CHEER" ? Or maybe I've just been singing it wrong all these years ... Could be that too.

ANYWAY... I am impressed with the pepper gardening. I am a champion house-plant killer, so I know I would fail miserably at the pepper-raising. But you seem to be doing great! YAY for peppers! And a reason to make your parents come visit again!

But I did JUST NOW GET the whole friday is the "hap-happiest day of the week" CUZ I AM THAT SLOW. Geez.

And the last anonymouse comment was me. And I should maybe go home and drink some wine? Cuz I am lacking in the intelligence today. Geez.

Amy....I used to think the same thing....and I *think* they might be talking about A Christmas Carol (with stories of the ghosts of Past, Present and Future). The future ghost was always a little scary to me. So that's my best guess!

Sue, I personally am a very TIGHT crazy knitter and I knit near the tip of the needle at all times with my crazy tight stitches (paging Dr. Freud!)

Since I do most of my knitting on the bus (bumpy) it can be perilous on the slippery Addi turbos. I like the way Addis move, but I tend to use my cheapo bamboo clover needles more often. Maybe I am weird (don't answer that1) but I find bamboo perfectly great.

However, if I were knitting on cotton or a less slidey fiber, I would need Addis I think, to keep from going crazy.

And felting is AWESOME!!!!

And! Guess what! Mrs. Lee is an EXPERT gardener so she has promised to take a few peppers and keep them alive.

ALSO!!!!!! You will be impressed (I hope) to know I am going to the garden center tomorrow with Faith to purchase a small drip irrigation system (hello, payday) so that I can keep things alive this year. I suspect it will be just as hot as last year, so I am planning ahead with irrigation, as if I were a badassss gardener fo reals yo.

Amy--
I always wondered about that line, too! Although I confess I have always found Christmas to be a creepy holiday. When I was kid, I was terrified of clowns and Santa was a clown who could come into your house!

Maybe "ghost stories" is a reference to A Christmas Carol.

Thanks Laurie ... I have the bamboo needles already so I am good to go there. I am pretty excited on starting this project (with the help of master knitters!! ... Hello!) but the pattern looks mighty scary. I will let you know how it goes!

Have a great weekend.

Sue

What are the little baby peppers living in? Pepper bassinets? Are those mesh pots I see?

that dinner looks delicious!

Whoa! Drip irrigation? I was going to suggest you mix in some of that gel stuff with the soil as you plant the peppers to help release water....but an actual irrigation system is much more awesomer!

Gosh, Laurie - i enjoy your site so much; not only for your terrific pics, insights and sharing, but also for the input of all of your 'readers, fans'?
Just thought I'd mention that until you grow, harvest and process your own special pepper sauce, you might want to check out your mah-vel-ous Korean neighbor and ask her about sauces, peppers, et al. Hmmm?

Chiles pequin! My sister's FIL, South Texas native that he is, grows them right by the front door, where he can just pick them off and pop them in his mouth. Obviously, his tongue is asbestos-coated...

Congratulations. Your father must have great faith in you to pass the torch on such an important family tradition as pepper growing.

Oooooo, drip irrigation! That's awesome! You're thinking ahead!

I have been trying for years to get my Filipina aunt's BBQ ribs recipe. She just smiles and pretends she doesn't understand me.

Oooh, that reminds me, I should start growing basil. Best of luck with the pepper things. A friend of mine once gave me a whole flat of Very Precious Plants to look after; I brought them home on the train, where the conductor mistook them for tomato plants (bless you, wherever you have flown, Mr. Conductor, stay as sweet as you are), and managed to kill all but three of them by the time she returned from vacation.

Ooh, drip irrigation is the bomb! If you're doing that Laurie, you're a real gardener for sure.

My dear kitty becomes Very Worried if I start singing at all. She leaps up on a chair as high as she can get to my face and meows loudly and worriedly. Good thing your kitties are more laid back.

Wonderful plans for the weekend! Enjoy!

I [like Tan] thought you were saying PENGUIN chiles, and I thought, OH GOD ANOTHER KIND MY S.O. IS GOING TO BE DRAGGING HOME.

Hey Laurie, if your Korean neighbor starts making KimChi (KimChee?) try to get her to make it with bean sprouts rather than cabbage.

I loooooove bean sprout kimchi! (send me some!)

My dad used to have a friend who made kimchi, she'd bring it to work (at a hospital) and just before leaving, my dad would unwrap the 5 plastic bags that were wrapped around it, undo the tape keeping it sealed, and then he'd slowly twist the lid off the jar...

a few seconds later and down the hall about 100 feet away and around a corner he'd hear one of the other nurses screaming "Who brought KimChi here!!!".

And it wasnt a "I want some!" scream...it was a scream full of horror and angst.

MmmmMMmmm!!! Kimchi good!

My dad would come home, eat a nice serving of Kimchi and then walk over to my (now) late uncle's house....where he'd promptly get thrown out of the house on his ass because my aunt and uncle absolutely hated the smell of kimchi.

Those Koreans really know how to spice up a pile of bean sprouts (and/or cabbage)

I am so excited about the prospect of seeing actual square watermelons! Can you give us a square watermelon tuturial? Do you stick the baby melons in a milk jug? I know I probably shouldn't ask, since you've already been kind enough to give us a photoshop captioning tutorial and now you're going to give us a surprise horoscope - but I'm greedy like that...more, More, MORE!!
Please?

oh wow, i got the same little seedling tray thingy. i'm new to the whole growing thing too. but i'm glad to say my squash (for the blossoms) and heirloom tomato mix are coming along nicely. i plan to stick them in the ground within the week!

OMG That Kal Bi (BBQ Ribs) looks SOOOO good! You lucky girl. I cannot express the levels of envy I am feeling right now. *Gah!*

LAURIE!!!
i'm jealous.
that korean bbq looks really really good.
and if you come upon some pepper problems, i would still consult your dad first because korean peppers are very different from the ones you have growing...in your bathtub? :o)heehee!
Dood--i'll be dancing "to the left, to the left" right along with you this weekend. with my poochie. she does a mean running man. :o)
lurve you and the kitties. xoxo to the roy-boy.
can't wait to hear about your korean market adventure! i know you'll have tons of fun!
oh, and xoxo to Mrs. Lee too!
p.s. a fellow black-thumb-person here is trying to send you very green-thumb-peppery-vibes. :o)

We'll be planting in a couple of weeks (post-move)--I can't wait! And you know we're all looking forward to the pepper-growing stories ;)

Tinker, if I do figure out the square watermeloning, I will be sure to post it here! At this point I am just hoping I can get my butt in gear to buy dirt and sedlings, plus plant the pepper farm I already have. heheheheh. I am such a gardener. I said "dirt."

And I am so excited about the April Horoscopes!!!

You surely did win the good neighbor lottery. Homestyle Korean BBQ? Mmmmm...

Also, it it wrong that every time I see that picture of Sobakowa it makes me laugh? She is so darn persnickity!

So, once you harvest the pepper farm, will it be you taking on the canning? will you be the new holder of the family secret sauce recipe? I can't wait to read all about that!

Now everyone in your family will have to jostle for your affections. That ought to be fun!

Ooh! Ooh! Are your horror-scopes being published somewhere else?Ermmm yeah, being an Aries and incurring your Aries wrath for a couple of months there made 'em horror-scopes.

Good luck with the peppers! ::: sending my green thumb vibes your way :::

gardning pix - YAY! i just posted pix of my first-ever successful citrus trees, and ... this is too weird ... all 3 are currently in my bathtub where the light is insanely bright and I don't have to clean up drained water puddles. Great minds think alike? i also have that same clear plastic seed starter dome thingy for veggies...scary...

We are planning a field trip with all three of my felines this weekend to Frank's place, in preparation of the big move in May. (Yes, with cats, you plan ahead. )

Feline No. 1, Entropy, went over last night and has spent the entire time hiding under Frank's bed. And why not? She knows Frank will feel bad and offer her tasty treats to try to coax her out. Roasted chicken breast and cream cheese as well as cat food! She's got him right under her paw.

But tonight we're adding the other two cats to the mix. Ganache loves Frank, love, love, loves the apartment and explores all over the place. Espresso hates it and hisses at her sister and wants to hide under the bed....where Entropy is now. Ooops.

I predict much growling and snarling and little sleep for the two humans.

Plus there are a lot of mirrors in the place and that freaks Espresso out.

Good for you for taking on the square watermelons again! I thought that was a brilliant idea!

Two words:

1. SEGO
2. Nursery

Corner of Burbank and Laurel Cyn. Awesome Amerasian lady who rocks...and knows her beans about gardening. I haunt it coupla times a month for my beloved succulents http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/96586120fgErLb

You are a ROCK STAR and I will be doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING AS YOU'RE PLANNING! only without the pepper breeding and i'll be all the way out here in Dallas... Enjoy!

she made you bul kabi...lucky you!!!

say: Kamsa-hamnida

haji.

:)

I'm so glad you're resurrecting the square watermelon project! (hey, that would be a good name for a band!)

YOU HAD KAL BI! YOU HAD KAL BI!!! DID I NOT TELL YOU THAT KOREAN FOOD WAS AWESOME?!! Okay, I'll stop shouting now. I'm just really jealous, and now my mouth is watering.

Enjoy your pepper farm! And your free weekend. And the Korean farmer's market, (I am incredibly jealous of that little excursion, too, even before the fact!)

I did a little gardenin' and plantin' myself today, it was so pretty outside. Gotta love spring! And square watermelons! :-)

I've got the gtreen thumb thing going on with wine and whatnot this week as well, and it was my birthday and all and I thank you for fun posts on my birthday week and everything and I love you muchly, You are my hero. Wind beneath my wings.

My dad was just talking about his former Judo instructor...Mr. Shin. That man made the best food at all the judo/tae kwon do Christmas parties. He did the Korean bbq, and he made the best fried chicken ever, and his kimchi was very very spicy and tasty.

I learned to eat oriental food from Mr. Shin, he taught me how to use chopsticks and how to throw a 45yr old man over my head (when I was 10) and he made the best bulgogi (sans canines)

Mmmmm! Now I'm hungry for Korean food...and Japanese food...and maybe a little bit of Chinese food... I wonder if the local Korean restaurant does a good bulgogi?

Now I'm hungry for some vegetable tempura (Japanese fried veggies) and I also want some Sake wine and for some strange reason I also want tacos.

I wonder if my parents would want to go out for Korean food tomorrow after I go yarn shopping? Is anyone else getting hungry just from looking at the picture of the Korean bbq that Laurie posted???

and can anyone else tell that I got absolutely no sleep last night????

I'm having a fun weekend too right now, hangin' with my best friend in a hotel! (We're at a convention that she fits at & I don't but I love hangin' with her.) I got to bring my laptop so as not to miss out on you, pretty smart, huh? Oh -- yeah, and what they said from me too. Now I officially love Soba too, she's just a furry walking Personality. Enjoy every minute of your weekend!

You guys are making me hungry.

Hmmm, it doesn't sound as if you have a 'free' weekend at all, you've filled it all up with stuff to do! Skip the vacuuming. It's not all it's cracked up to be. I am jealous of your green thumb. Every plant I bring home is dubbed a sacrifice to the plant goddess, which wasn't really even funny the first time... but I digress =) Have a great weekend yourself!

Laurie!!!!

Don't go buy a drip system. Check with your local water and power company first. I live in Burbank and they GIVE (for FREE) a drip irrigation system to residents for FREE!!!!

And if yours doesn't email me and I will go get you a system here and give it to you. Save some of that money for yarn...or watermelon seeds. ;)

bad_gurlx2000X@hotmail.com

Delurking to say HI, love reading your blog and wow, that sounds like a fun weekend. I have so many comments I want to make, about hot peppers and motor homes and good neighbors...mostly though, I should say I'm SO loving Beyonce. Major girl crush here.

Bossy loves to grow seedlings, which she calls 'her babies'. As if having two kids isn't enough, Bossy likes to fuss over her babies and carry them in and out of doors and shield them from wind and mist them with the sprayer and change their little diapers. Well not so much that last thing.

I have one worry about the pepper plants - can you be hard-hearted enought to thin each pot down to one plant? You really need to do this - as soon as they sprout a real leaf, get tough and just snip off all but one seedling in each pot. Don't try to pull them - you'll mess up the roots of the one you want to keep.

And I agree with Amanda, they are going to very quickly need a lot more light than you can give them in your bathroom. You are doing good things for them taking them out every evening, but they will soon need all day in the sun (working up to it gradually by giving them shade the first few days, but outdoors shade). You can make sure they don't dry out by watering heavily every morning, so that there is about 1/4-1/2" of standing water in the flat, as long as you drain it when you get home to make sure the roots get to breathe.

You will be the queen of the red hot peppers!

You are my favorite. I love you Crazy Cat Lady!! Your peppers are going to be so amazing! And Victor will be victorious. My parents have an RV that looks much like the one in the pictures. And oh my goodness. It is so nice. I asked my husband if we could just pretty please sell the house and buy an RV, but alas, he said NO. Okay, I have to go now, and continue the Road Trip of Hell. Pray that I make it home. Hopefully your April astrology won't say, "Aries experienced a life and death situation in late March and didn't make it through."

yummy food, you did luck out!
PS: Go Justin!

Speaking of vacuuming...

Hubby and I bought a Dyson this week, and I have to admit I first heard about them from reading your blog.

I love it.

Best of luck with those peppers.

i hope your weekend so far has been greet. i have no words of wisdom on the gardening front because like eva gabor, "i get allergic smelling hay."

You do realize how much in common your Inner Southern Self has with your Asian neighbor, besides the old saw that we both eat rice and worship our ancestors? Both Southerners and Asians can get into endless loops of small-gift-giving (Southerners with Asian friends can get ridiculous -- you should see the amount of mayhaw jelly and quail egg soup that goes back and forth between me and a Vietnamese friend). Southerners and Asians also share a penchant for ghost stories, we can "manners each other to death" as my friend Tanya used to say, we cannot allow people to enter our homes withour feeding them, we both take fishing and barbequeing quite seriously, and we both leave our shoes on the porch (Asians because it is polite and Southerners because the shoes are muddy). Think about it. And if your parents come down for any LSU games I'll be glad to go visit them for you!

Those little piquin peppers remind me of my childhood and my mother telling me in no uncertain terms to touch those red berries because they would burn. Did I listen? No. I would touch them and then touch my eyes and the pain would start. My parents had a bush that grew wild next to the gate and fence on the old home place. I remember those peppers fondly. My Dad also made a hot sauce that would make everyone's ears steam from those things. For anyone in Texas looking for them, the Dancing Bear in Gruene has the plants, I bought mine there.

I concur.... "Mmmm, Korean BBQ dinner!" :D

The pepper plants are way too cool! I've got to try that - never would have thought of it!

You dance away Kiddo...and I really hope those chili peppers are the best your dad's ever seen.
I love to visit you everyday, you give me inspiration to "open up"....

That kal-bi looks so mouthwateringly good! Has she brought you kimchee yet? It's taken me almost 30 years to really appreciate Korean food, esp. my mom's cooking. I can't wait to come out to LA in a couple of months (first time ever - my cousin and family are out there). I'm sure there's no comparison of the LA K-Town to Chicago's. I'm so happy that you have Mrs. Lee next door to you!

You must get the Deluxe Edition of B'Day so that you can start dancing to "Dangerous Liar." Oh, and the new Timbaland with Nelly and JT. "If sexy never left, then why's everybody on my sh**?"

And I'm keeping my fingers crossed for your seedlings. Because I think I'm going to need some of your dad's hot sauce.

I am coming out of lurkdom to give a word of advice re. the peppers - and I apologize if someone already wrote this. Go to the home improvement store (Home Depot or whatever) and get a grow light. You can just clip it onto something and bathe those seeds in light. They need 6 - 10 hours of this if they are in a bathroom all day. This will vastly improve your success rate with the pepper production.

If you are going to plant them in your yard later, be sure to work some compost into the soil before planting. This will be good for the watermelon seeds too.

As an aside, is there a way to contact you offline? I have something business related you may be interested in. (it involves jewelry featuring your lovely felines...so it's a good thing!) Thanks!

Amy et al...Because Britain does not have our history of Halloween, its literature has a tradition of using the dark, dying time of the calendar year to look backward at old times and old things, including ghosts. I don't know whether Dickens began or just continued this tradition, but he certainly spread it to the New World via his classic, "A Christmas Carol". It certainly struck a chord---even every sitcom eventually airs a "Carol" knockoff. So I guess it seeped into that song we've been discussing. Class dismissed!

Oh I just love, love, LOVE those Ferry - Morse peat and mesh greenhouse thingys! Don't you? All my seeds have sprouted and I haven't killed anything yet. Now, there's as ringing an endorsement as there ever was! It works so well I went out and bought another one and a bunch more seeds. Can't think where I'm going to plant 48 zinnias but I'm so happy to know that I could if I wanted to.