Well, I am in zone 9 and I am planting carrots now. I plan to continue sowing them until the end of June, and if our July starts cool, I will plant then too (if I have any space left....LOL). I have never managed to sprout them in August though. September is not too good either, so I start again in October. So yes, you are reading this right, carrots here in zone 9 sown from October to June. I do have them shaded by other plants in the warmer months and this helps a lot. If you do not and you get a heat wave, it will affect their taste and texture. We do have unusually cool springs, but I try to extend my season for carrots as much as possible, since that first time when I tasted my first garden grown carrot and I just could not believe my tastebuds. Many of us have fun reading other people's garden blogs, I do not think this is considered spam here at all. Lots of luck with your carrots! (to summarize my long answer, yes I think you can sow them now)

wow- should have done that with my dog!! but a plant will hold still!! lol very nice-- it just keeps getting bigger and bigger! Thanks for sharing-- :)

Wow, I just read your story. That is TERRIBLE! I agree with everyone else -- you are being discriminated against and I think it is worth suing them. But you have to weigh the emotional and time costs of suing. If you have the time and you think it will help protect someone else in the future as well as provide some closure to you, then do it. If not -- if it will only add to your stress -- and you think you can let it go, then move on to your next apartment and enjoy your life. I will tell you that we almost moved into an apartment in which this could have been us. We needed to find a bigger apartment because we were planning to have a baby. We found one that we thought we liked, though it was a bit expensive for us. We negotiated the rent down a bit and signed the lease. That night I had a panic attack about it because the owner of the apartment, who lived below this apartment, had gone on and on about the previous tenant who had a child that cried a lot. He said something about not knowing our plans but assumed we wouldn't be the same kind of tenants. It worried me because babies cry. You have no idea what your child's temperment is going to be like and I realized that if we were lucky enough to get pregnant and have a baby, this guy and his wife could potentially make our lives miserable (including but not limited to increasing our rent significantly). The next day we backed out of the lease (at great expense to us). Several months later, we found an even better apartment (and I was pregnant by then) that was less expensive. The landlord is a peach. I have asked him numerous times whether my son's crying or his toddling (or his periodic sippy cup drops from his high chair) bothers him or his brother. He always responds by saying things like "babies cry" or "I hope we aren't too loud for you!" It is SO nice to be in a space where you can just live your lives and not have to worry all of the time. We are all respectful of one another as well as understanding. It makes such a difference! I hope this new apartment will provide you with the same kind of safe-haven we have found with our apartment. You deserve it! But, just in case you find that someone complains about noise in your new place, you can always try corkboard for the ceiling.... Hang in there! I am sure this nasty woman who has forced this on you will have her day. Her negative energy is bound to come back and bite her in the bum one of these days... Jen

When there are so many consecutive days of 100+ heat a brief shower or even a day of rain is so nice. But the next day the humidity is so high that one can scarcely breathe when outdoors. Here in East Texas an air conditioner has become a necessity instead of a luxury. There were hot summers when I was growing up, but I do not remember hot spells lasting so long. Then we had one small electric fan that was used sparingly when the baby was napping. The windows all had screens and were not closed, day or night. My mother would lightly sprinkle every bed with her clothes sprinkling bottle just before bedtime. That was primitive AC.