Hi Everyone! Sorry I haven't been around much, but I've been busy trying to redo all the gardens. I have a friend who is taking a lot of my plants, and I MAY be making a trip to Palm Bay to take some to Glenn Jones. Oh yeah -- I have a car now. My son bought it for me, and it's really going to be a game-changer for me.

Anyeay, I have that horrible slope in front of my apartment that is bare all winter and mostly bare in the summer. I hate it because the sand blows into my courtyard and drives me crazy. I've been looking for something that will grow there, and I even found someone willing to give me wedelia, but I haven't taken them up on it yet, because I'm waiting for rainy season.

Last year, I grew potato mint, and discovered it spreads rampantly and is a great thick and low-growing ground cover. I dug some up last year to give to a friend, but he decided he didn't want it, so since the tubers were sprouting and too small to eat, I decided to plant them on the slope. It might work, it might not. The mowers may destroy them, I don't know, but I don't think so because they're set at 2-1/2 inches and it doesn't grow much taller than that.

I'm also planting some native Florida Roseling (Callisia cordifolia) aka Dwarf Wandering Jew, which spreads like wildfire and comes back quickly in early spring (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Callisia-Cordifolia-Green-Trailing-Wandering-Jew-Flowering-Inch-Plant-EZ-Care-/302368616712). There seems to be a lot of confusion over the specific names of the Callisia species in FL, but I'm pretty sure this is the true name of this one. A lot of people have it as C. repens, which to me is Bolivian Wandering Jew, which I hate, since it almost choked out my grass in SW Florida.

Wish me luck! I know it will die in the winter, but what it will do is break up that horrible, hard ground and maybe I'll be able to overseed it with rye in the winter.