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tomatofreak said:Very interesting, Zig. We're in heat zone 10, but with our low (relatively) humidity, our summer temps are more or less like a drying oven. I do wish that plant growers would tag their plants with heat zone info since USDA cold zone tags are often useless here. When you say your soil doesn't hold water, does that mean it's sandy and runs through - a la Florida - or that it runs off?

Alma, the 'soil' is like a fairly fine lateritic gravel. Deeper down is yellowish clay-like stuff that sets like concrete in the dry season, but is fairly mushy in the wet season. None of it holds water, although wet season the water table is very high so it doesn't matter so much.