1. Having my neighborhood go up in flames 2. Having my neighborhood washed away in a flood 3. Having my neighborhood be swallowed up in the next quake, #1 No fires if you stay away from the hill's where there are lots of old dead tree's #2 Floods - Just stay away from those few areas #3 Will yea Earth Quakes are defiantly scary! Can't do much about that. I would recommend a one story ground level house. As you can see I have a two story Cape Cod style home. I'm always worried we will get shook off our foundation. Earthquake insurance it is too expensive with huge deductibles! Everything does grow good here though. Weather is nice most the year. LetÂs see sod laying tips. When I lay sod I straighten the sod edges and corners as I go and make sure no grass gets stuck between the sod edges. This will avoid dead grass and brown and yellow stripes between the sod pieces that can make fungus and just makes for a bad start. I spray the ground with water and put down a little fertilizer as I lay the sod. I always use my square so I get nice square edges when I cut sod. Sometimes I donÂt even till the ground. Sod will live on the patio if you water it. I do it all the time. DonÂt over water your new lawn. Get out there and lift up the sod and see how wet it is. If you over water your new lawn you will get chlorosis and fungus like I have now from too much rain. If I need to replace a small spot I use a plate or bucket for a stencil and cut out the bad piece. Then I use the plate or bucket to cut a new piece of sod from extra sod that I keep on the patio or garden. If you are going to put in French drains or remove and replace tree's itÂs better to do it first. I did it all backwards. I have a spot were an old tree and its roots were removed and it keeps sinking along with the trenches were I put the drains. If you put drains. It is good to attach your rain gutter down spouts to them. Also if you dig your ditch for your sprinklers try to keep the top soil separate from any clay soil that may be down lower and put the soil back in the whole the same way you took it out. The grass grows better on the top soil than the clay. ThatÂs about all I can think of for now other than I like Blue Grass because it self fills. But. If you have shade you will need to over seed now and then were it thins out. I left a link below to other garden pics. I like to grow fruit trees as well. I get all my info for the roses and fruit tree's here on GardenWeb. Take care Dave Here is a link that might be useful: Garden Pics

Hi Carol_w_fl: I do go by the FL Veg Gardening guide and I did get my broccoli in late....thanks anyhow.... And yes...my mounds are on the west side of my home (longest sunlight exposure) and they are right in the middle of my lawn. There's about a 6 inch ring of yellow-ish grass around the base of each mound...and it just happened over the weekend.....I'll post a picture in the morning so all can see.

Yes, it can and a good dose of sunny weather should bring the green back. We went thru a very cloudy May and tons of water a lot of my daylilies yellowed. Half of June was cloudy and drippy as well. In the last couple weeks of hot sunny weather most have their healthy green color back. A few still have yellow foliage but they'll get better. I think it's the sun they miss. Thrips and spider mites can also give your foliage a dirty yellow look.

0.06" of rain in the last month is all we've gotten, and I tend to balance grasses at the edge of highly stressed to minimize the amount of potable water being tossed on the lawn. I did have to manually cut the edge of the garden as it was approaching eight inches tall (one time I break the one-third rule), and the second mow started late afternoon as the weather is cool and cloudy. It's continuing right now, actually, as the robot doesn't need to see in visible light, she sees by magnetic lines, inertial compass, and a radio signal. Mowing right now under sunny skies and warmer weather would risk a severe burn.