Agree w everyone. Peas did well even afterthe bunnies did a job on them. Lettuce was fine. I have one Red Knight Pepper with five fruit on it. Have fifteen heirloom tomato varieties which were very slow to set fruit but now have nice, blemish free tomatoes on them. Prudens Purple, Kellogs Breakfast, and Delicious seem to be doing the best. Garlic crop was super except I found bulbs/tops maturing at different times this year. The early drying ones are going into the use right away jar. I have planted a second and third crop of bush and pole beans, radishes, and hope to replant peas annd lettuce for a fall crop after I get the potatoes out. Love the Baby Romaine lettuce, Little Gem. All of this in five 4 X 8 foot raised beds. Summer squash and zukes doing OK but some critter loves my yellow squash blossoms and nips them off neatly each day. Fish emulsion seems to keep them away for a day or two but my yeild is down. First three apples on my dwarf apple trees (3) planted a couple years ago. Been gardening for over 60 years and this has been among the toughest so far: may get better.Just so thankful that I have had nine wonderful retirement years to mess around in the garden. Just wish there were more hours in the day. Gardening does awaken the spirit and open your eyes.

Well, I haven't ever computed mine on the lot lines. But just added up the size of the yards around the house and added them up. So mine is 8000 not counting house, drive way, and four sidewalks and two patios. I'd love to have a big tooth oak. I hear they are nice trees and have nice fall color. I planted two trees that were supposed to be shantung maples, but, they turned out to be mis-labled Norway maples and simply did not do well in my climate (plus their fall color was bad instead of the nice color I hear Shantungs generally have.) My three red oaks are all slightly different. I think one might be a Mexican or white oak, I just haven't ever been able to tell for sure. And, alas, with too much shade (go figure) I've killed 3 crepe myrtles. I really wanted a couple of those. Three lilacs are surviving but not flourishing for the same reason. They only get about a half day because I was finally able to get my Pin oak to take off. Also, in a few years I expect one of my burr oaks and one of my red oaks to conspire with a neighbors pecan tree to make my Cleveland pear to feel crowded. But, up here our trees generally grow smaller (even the "big" ones) and slower. So, its much different than in tree growing areas where many of the trees I have will get HUGE and do so fairly quickly. Our weather often thins out our trees for us.

The lights heat the room well if you use the sodium growlights, but initial turn on is not good if the roots are very cold, they dont need to be that warm though, just at a temperture they can work, and once watrm indoors they generaly wont drop much with the heat that has buit up in the day, 88F root temperature is around the perfect temperature for the maximum growth, i turn the heater mat off in the night to simulate outdoor temperature drop as i turn the lights off, but most of the day the heater is off, just a short time in the morning to warm back up before i switch the sodium lights back on to control the temperature of the roots ,i have a thermostat heater mat,3 meters by 2 meters 500w power, set to heat to 88 then let cool a bit , sort of keeps it at 80 ish degrees F , doesnt use much power as its off most of the time once its warmed up the pots in the morning, you can get one pot size heatersm these are better as they waste less power, i use a giant mat for a few plants and also sometimes trays of water on the mats as well to humidify the room if its a bit dry even with the fountians

My 5 year old beautiful fig tree also did not survive the winter in DC. Thankfully i see new growth coming up from the ground. The advice i got from an arborist was to check the branches to see if any of the tree is alive and cut down anything dead. Scrape a twig with your nail or a small pocketknife to reveal the layers beneath the bark. Dead twigs will be gray or brown inside. A living tree has a green cambium layer immediately beneath the outer bark and green, white or cream-colored wood inside the twig. Check several twigs in different parts of the tree to ensure the entire tree is dead. good luck!