Have a partial answer. Rosemary is supposed to be a perennial in my temperature zone, but mine die every winter. I now grow a rosemary plant inside and it is 3+ years old and fairly small. Each spring, I cut off a couple of sprigs and root them and they grow much larger in the garden where...
Spiders are generally easy to find and pick off. It is the soil gnats that are a major annoyance here. They are tiny and hard to get rid of.
The only plants I bring in/out now are cold-sensitive ones like figs that I over-winter in my garage when they are dormant.
If you have a...