Very cool! I bet that was costly though. Not ideal, but I'll stick with my free one. I've spent enough on my garden for one year (or several if my wife has any say, hehe).

Just curious, are these recent photos? Seems to me that in a zone 8 you would be planting, or darn near ready to. I just put many of my plants into a cold frame this week-end and I have well over a month before they will be safe outside of it. Kay.

Kay, photos were taken today, moments before an inch of hail covered this area. Our frosts here go into early May. And this year Winter has not let go. Record breaking cold spell has hit the Pacific Northwest. Which, by the way, isn't all that cold. But snow, hail, heavy showers and lightning today. Cold unsettled weather with no let-up in sight. All of March and April has had well below average temperatures.
It is not unusual for this part of the country to have the coldest daytime temperatures in April and May in the entire lower 48 states, and this year is unusually cold. It doesn't get very cold here, but it takes forever to warm up. Sigh.

Yeah, 8b only applies to the coldest temps for the year. Although it never gets to 20 degrees around here, that doesn't mean it doesn't stay hovering between 35 and 45 for months on end in the late winter and early spring (this year anyway). We've got a wierd climate. Nothing like the other 8b's of the country.

Here is a link that might be useful: Sinfonian's garden adventure