Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
Would it be possible for you DH to hammer in some stakes (maybe PVC pipe) so you will have something to hold on to when you are planting stuff? Also if you go into a roll, something will be there to stop you.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29