That's what I was thinking. I think it needs cooler temps too. Here we often go from winter to summer and don't have a cool season, or the cool season is down right cold, or it pours rain and everything rots. The weather doesn't usually start to cooperate until mid May or even June. So cool weather gardens sometimes do great, other times-not so much. I am really hoping to find something easy to grow with a celery like taste for salads, pastas and sage dressing. Maybe even something that would take a freezer. I tried freezing celery and it got really watery and chewy, was basically unusable. Might could have run through the blender and added to soup, but that's about it.