Excellent article, good advice but maybe too late for me. At 87.75 years of age, and alone, it's daunting! But I did plant blueberry bushes and a fig tree some years ago and am enjoying their fruit. Have a raised bed but didn't have the energy to weed it, add compost and plant anything this year. If things get much worse--and they surely will--I'll try again next year, or maybe even this fall. With summer temps now in the 90's I'm not going to do much this summer except to feed my birds. Oh, you see from my email address I'm a horse person! And I've even given the horse the summer off. It's just too hot to ask an old (25) horse to carry me or even pull a cart until cooler weather.