I live in North Phoenix so our conditions are about the same. I don't know how large an area you're gardening or what you've tried so far so I can only speak generally. One thing I learned about growing here vs. Pennsylvania is that you have to pick the right varieties, get the timing exactly right, get the irrigation right, baby the heck out of most of them, and with a little luck it'll all work out. Be liberal in adding organic matter and grow legume green manure/cover crops if you have the space and it'll definitely give your vegetables a good chance. Drip irrigation has helped quite a bit in my case. With it I can tweak the watering schedule very precisely. Gene

I have about thirty comets (goldfish) up to 10" and 12" long. I have to move the ponds in the next few weeks. So the comets need new homes. I am in Spring Hill, Hernando County, Florida. If you live nearby and are interested....

Just a follow-up. We've driven to a lot of towns and seen a lotta houses and FINALLY found a town to call home--Englewood. We liked Nokomis but couldn't find the right house. Also a lot of properties have well water which is so full of stuff that you need a whole house reverse osmosis thingy. Anyway, I made things harder because I wanted a backyard that faced south and that cut down available stuff by 75% (ha-ha). We move in 4 weeks and I'm digging up my plants now. Did I mention that it's NOT in a homeowners association? Our current community is embroiled in a really nasty election with the nastiness brought on by a few really rude people who have no regard for the majority of owners. I am not getting a huge backyard in the new house but it does face south :-) I am REALLY looking forward to waving at my new neighbors and knowing very little about them and staying out of each others bidness (that's a Delaware word). Here's a funny bit-I've been going to the big box stores and buying plants that I would normally never buy (ixora, hibiscus) to fill in the spots I'm removing my special plants. Everywhere I look I see plants I can't leave behind because I know they won't be valued by the new owner (like all my butterfly larval plants). We're so happy that our search is over. It was really exhausting and almost to the point that we couldn't remember where we have been and what we've seen. We were lucky enough to get a great realtor who found us the house that wasn't on the MLS. She actually called other realtors asking if they had anything (called pocket listings) and found a realtor getting divorced and selling. In the past 5 years I've dealt with several realtors in 2 states and this was the best one. No offense if any GW's are in real estate but I have come to dread dealing with them for many reasons. Oh yeah, the yard is on well water (house on city water) so I won't have huge water bills for the garden (after we get over this drought). Denise moving day March 19

I need photos of the houses in Old Hickory! :) That's what I'm after. I'll publish the photos at my website, to contrast and compare the houses in Old Hickory with the houses in Norfolk. Plus, I know there were EIGHT designs of "Dupont Houses" and I only have images/photos of TWO of these designs. We have many of these Dupont Houses in Norfolk, but I can't begin to identify them, because I only have photos of TWO of the eight designs. So, in short, I need photos of those houses in Old Hickory that were built by Dupont. I do have addresses in Old Hickory. Rose