Hope so, ladies. It's about turning your mind set upside down, to not grow anything in the summertime like we did when we lived up North. Here, summer is for resting up and planning, while sitting indoors in the a/c or floating around in the pool.
Got to tell you about the first book I got when I moved here - I've since passed it on to a friend but I think it was called something like the Florida Gardener's Survival Guide by Monica Brandies (who lives in Tampa). First thing she says about soil is "the soil in Florida just holds the plant up, you have to do everything else". I thought it was a joke, but it's SO true. Plain sand . . . does nada for plants. Second thing I recall was something like "the seasons are more or less reversed in Florida, we garden through the winter when the weather is splendid, and rest up in summer when it's really too hot."
