Came home after 8PM and had to garden in the dark with a little help.

You get to garden all year long? That's just not fair. I thought that was only in Hawaii. Don't you have hurricane season?

I know I and my rosacea would have trouble with the heat, but my arthritis and I have trouble with the cold, so where am I supposed to live? Harvesting fruit in January.I wonder if I have any relatives that need help harvesting or making something with fruit down south in January. That all sounds wonderful and it sounds like your husband has every reason to be proud. You can grow bamboo in Florida? You could have Pandas. Ha, ha. Thanks and take care.

Yes, we have hurricane season from June 1st to December 1st. But that's during the time it's very hot and rains nearly every day, so it's a wonderful growing season. Things just grow like crazy then. My husband swears the bamboo grows from morning to noon time, no kidding! Our fruit trees have fruit on them right now but it's very green. It won't be ready to pick until January. Can you believe it takes that long for it to get ripe? We just replanted some of our herbs and they'll last through the winter, unless we have a frost in Jan. or Feb. Some people plant tomatoes and other vegetables again in October or November, I think. Oh yeah, my husband is in 7th heaven with all the plants. He's a big flower, bush, and tree gardener but is not into vegetable gardening. He is just wild about living here. I find it a little too warm but I am adjusting to it.

Don't your hedges belong in that area? Can't they take winter? So I have a really loose definition of gardening as in anything you do with and for your garden. I have an extensive and complicated vocabulary, but most of my definitions are simple because I'm basically a simple country girl who likes to read and talk to intellectuals as well as everyone else. My porch light goes only partway to my car. That's it and it's on the side, my garden is in back. I hope you feel better soon. Gardening is a lot better when you're healthy enough to do it.

These hedges are for my zone, but I had just bought them this year, they are babies, about half a foot tall..I was told that if it gets bitterly cold, like below 20 or 10 degrees, to make sure they make it through their first year it was suggested I cover them..They also are sensitive to dehydration, so I have to make sure they stay moist..They start out growing very slowly, but starting next year, they should start growing 3 feet a year..

Bitterly cold is below 20 or 10 degrees. Glad you defined that, we consider bitterly cold like 30 below with a 10 to 20 mile per hour wind. Good luck.

We usually have from mid May to late October without frost, but the cooler nights slow things down quite a bit after the middle of September. This year it was too cold up until the first of June, so a lot of things were stunted or had to be replanted late. Better to garden in the dark than to lose your crop!

We have about 65 to 80 days of growing season up here depending on the year, so getting any crops has been a challenge. One year we had 115 and another year 120. That was extremely exciting for us!I think the longest was 135 or 140. One year farmers bailed hay three times. There was some other crop, I forget if it was rye or what that they had multiple harvests. Getting one harvest here is amazing,more than one is a serious miracle year! This year people replanted 3 to 5 times because it was so wet. So we had a really really late start and probably a 55 day year for all but the wettest stuff. This year everyone learned how I feel, trying to grow stuff in a swamp. But they just kept planting, so I learned something, just keep planting! Yes, I don't generally garden in the dark, but coming home after dark and frost expected, no choice. Thanks and take care.

The plant that you were given when you had your oldest daughter sounds really really neat. Reminds me of a story I read once about a tree that was started unpon the birth of a little boy. Maybe because lawns that are wet can invite critters. Here, we're told to water at night so it can have time to soak in. Maybe because we have clay soil and some Julys it is so hot in the AM, it would just evaporate. On the news and in an article I read, said to water at night if danger of frost. Turns out there wasn't any frost last night. But to get the weather when you're riding around in your car for your area, sometimes not easy. We had a lot of rain, mostly mornings during some parts of our year, too. Thanks and take care.

Yeah, that was back when I had a yard and not 5 sheds and big trees so I actually had a YARD.

Mowing the yard by flashlight. That's a new one on me. Thanks and take care.

Funny how building buildings can get away from one, isn't it?