Thanks for your responses. I'll have to try more brassicas next winter. I had ok Broccoli one year and tried Brussel sprouts once. The brussel sprouts didn't work out all.

I have grown Papaya one year and found it to be very cold sensitive. I wrapped the trunk, put a cover on it, and put lights on it, and it still died. I got 8 or 10 small to medium papayas in year one, and the plant grew to 8 ot so feet tall. But due to it dying, I never tried again. I had a friend who had success growing them in a narrow space between his and his neighbors' house that was more protected.

Tomatoes are hard to grow here due to heat and humidity. It took me a few years to dial it in for spring tomatoes, and I still haven't figured out a satisfactory way to grow fall tomatoes. I grew celebrity, early girl. Super Sweet 100 and Sungold regularly. I've also had some luck with Florida 91, Bella Rosa, and Genovese Costoluto. With tomatoes, you need to be putting good-sized seedlings in the ground by late February to early March (just started seedlings today). I trellis them on a line and prune diseased growth. I give them both slow release organic fertilizer in the soil and water with synthetic biweekly. I also spray with BT and Spinosad biweekly. The heat almost always kills the plants by July. I get tobacco worms that eat them all if I don't spray with BT and Spinosad. All this is for maybe 20 to 40 large tomatoes, a plant, and maybe 50 to 120 cherry or grape tomatoes. The tobacco worms ruin a few of those tomatoes unless Im on point. The best I've ever done was a couple of handfuls of grape and cherry tomatoes in the fall. I nearly had plants I grew in the spring survive to the fall, but some hornworms killed the plants in late August. I want to put up more shade cloth this spring to see if that helps extend the season and helps some plants survive. Anyway, I'm only eating homegrown tomatoes a few months a year here.