It was the end of May when we last left and locked the gates at our house in Wimauma. Four months later we come back and unlock the gates and find that things had grown a little during the wet season in Florida. The grass (actually mostly weeds) in some places was 3 feet tall.
I set the riding lawn mower on it's highest cut height and slowest speed and in two days I made a lot of hay.
Polly brought her hibiscus from New London. It took the trip down pretty well and when planted in the nice warm Florida soil it immediately started to bloom - maybe it had some help from Polly's green thumb and constant watering.
Once she got started on gardening it was "dig this out", "move that over to here","plant this over there"but than she adds "please Honey" and my aching back disappears. The red tipped plants that she is replanting in the picture were originally planted next to the house but had multiplied so much that they had to be thinned and moved a little bit away from the house to discourage termites. But after digging them up and splitting them apart we ended up with over fifty plants. Some went back in from where we dug them out but another thirty holes had to be dug in another location to take the rest.
Oh my aching back - Honey - OK I'll keep digging.
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