As Pete carefully emphasizes, citrus diseases keep moving to Florida, or evolving if you wish, to take advantage of the citrus monoculture. Citrus bugs do too. The industry has to stay ahead of them somehow, to survive. Then we get a little breeze in late September, and your oranges are whipped off onto the ground. What a business!

I solved the "natural gas expense for heating" 2 years ago. We turned off the gas house heat and its been off ever since. Now this is only N. Florida where it frosts my bananas sometimes.... but a 1500 watt electric heater will toast up my bathroom in 5 minutes for a quick morning shower in January, then it is turned off for the day, and we wear fuzzy clothes and go for a walk. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />