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Gardening

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

3. It's called air conditioning.

Reply to Denninmi (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 08:40 PM

Jul 2012

When I lived in Houston, that got me through the summers. And also the thought that in the middle of the winter, I would not be scraping ice and snow off the car all the time and worrying about how bad the roads are.

As to gardening, I did everything very early in the morning or very late in the evening. But there were things that just would not grow in the middle of the summer there. You had to adjust.

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The heat, my God, the heat. How do you folks in the South stand this year after year? [View all] Denninmi Jul 2012 OP

I moved 1200 miles north to escape the heat, LWolf Jul 2012 #1

Maybe here? elleng Jul 2012 #2

It's called air conditioning. Curmudgeoness Jul 2012 #3

We were in the U.P. last week and it hit 94 degrees in the Porcupine Mountains Kolesar Jul 2012 #4

I live in Austin. I have a garden every year. Javaman Jul 2012 #5

I'm not standing it. It's been around 100 degrees here for two months sinkingfeeling Jul 2012 #6

I live in Houston and I garden every day, sometimes up to 6 hours a day or more.... flying_wahini Jul 2012 #7

yes..it's in the timing drthais Oct 2012 #8

Wow, my post was prophetic. Denninmi Oct 2012 #9

I'm in Los Angeles and thinking about starting seeds in the house very soon. JDPriestly Oct 2012 #10