Wow. It is almost the end of August !! Time is really flying !! Thanks again for all the advice and for the seed offer. I would love to see your gardens someday and get very jealous... Hope you all had a great summer ! We are still stuck in the apartment and can not get the house yet since we still own our Florida house. With all the economy problems, we are just scared to make another purchase at this point. With all the real estate changes our Florida house really dropped in price and we can not sell it now without loosing a lot of money...Ah..hh. My garden had grown sooo much and we are not there to eat the goodies and trim the trees the "right" way. With all the tropical rain that Florida gets in the summer, my garden became a jungle... I am worried about the garden more then a house I guess...isn't that weird ? We have a nice lady renting it for now, but I wish I could just swap my house in Florida with a similar one here. Is that possible at all ? Did anybody hear anything like that being done ? Or is it just one of my silly dreams? Any of you gardeners want to relocate to Florida to my Eden garden and let me happily take over yours? :) I catch my self day dreaming more about my lush green garden there while it is so hot here in Arizona. I started to propagate my Chaya plants (perennial Spinach bush) that my friend sent me from my garden. So far it made tru the summer and got bigger. I will get another package of Chaya cuttings and Lemon grass suckling from Florida in the fall. If anybody wants to have a Chaya cutting, I might have some to spare. I can ask my friend to send extra if needed. It is a very rare and wonderful plant to have in the garden. It is also very delicious when cooked, very nutritional and healthy. It supposed to grow here very well because it is not picky at all. I looked at many nurseries here and could not find these plants, which were my favorite in the garden. Hope everybody's gardens made it well thru this very hot summer, which is not over yet as I understand. My patio garden is not happy at all and many plants burned. I can not really move my heavy boxes much and some of the plants got too much sun and decided that they did not want to live any more. I planted my favorite jujube from the seed and it is doing well. It is about 1 foot now and I have good hopes for it. It is a very tasty variety from my garden and I hope it will come true to the seed. We will see. I could not find any of the Indian jujubees here either. They are very hardy and can stand sun and poor soil and very fast growing. Talk to you later my fellow gardeners :)

Do you mean your growing zone? The first stop will be your county extension office . Bring in soil samples and ask for any handouts and help they can offer. Soil is VERY important so amend that before all else.Most Ext offices have classes to help you. Google IFAS. Put in edible landscape. Good Luck

Gnappi, in my above ground pens, the urine goes onto the manure, so that the pHs balance out. Most animal manure is alkalotic (high pH), but rabbit manure is much closer to neutral and with the urine added it is also quite high in nitrogen. My mum lives in englewood, is that any closer to you?

@Nicholas C. - I'm looking for a variety. I've asked which cacti produce fruit and I get mixed responses. Some say a lot of them do, but not all of them taste good to the general public, and some say only a few cati fruit and that they all come from the same family. I've tried dragon fruit, prickly pear, and Peruvian apple before but that was long ago, and I recall liking them. I think any fruiting cactus would be nice though, hopefully what I don't eat will attract birds. I've tried one home depot and one Wal-Mart and they told me that they didn't have any fruiting cati. If possible, I'd love to know where you saw them specifically. I'll check out the other Wal-Marts and Home Depots in my area though, thanks.