Maybe a greenhouse is next for you.
Make it solar and any sun will help heat the house.
Here, if we are lucky, we have a week of spring and then summer.
Same thing happens in the fall, a few days and winter.
Last summer was so bad even the greenhouses failed. We got one month of decent sun and temperature at the very end and the neighbor’s tomatoes actually began to turn red, sort of.
Granny, I know what you mean about the weather in Ariz. It varies so much in the state. I lived in Williams for about a year a long time ago when I worked for a little weekly newspaper in Flag. We went to the Canyon quite often — I miss that.
I liked Williams, but nothing but volcanic ash for gardening, it seemed. I’m in Florida now and my sister is in Phoenix. She’s been in Ariz. since the ‘60s and wouldn’t live anywhere else. Hope to see Sedona again someday, too.