Gardening Future

What will gardening on the NCR look like in 50 years?  I won't be around to report on that particular issue, but I can predict the conditions based on my experiences of the last 50.  As a freshman at Clarkson U. in Potsdam, NY in the early 1970s, it was a given the area would endure temperatures in the -50 F. range every winter.  The joke was you could throw a glass of water out a second story window and it would freeze before it hit the ground!  In any case, the gardening season usually ended by midSeptember with several freezes recorded before October.  Fast forward to the present... It is Oct. 31 and the gardening season continues apace.  If  not for recent rainy weather, I would still be fertilizing late spinach and kale.  Where they are protected by overhanging foliage, tender weeds like galinsoga continue to grow.  What's more, there is little in the way of freezing weather predicted for the next 10 days.  At this rate, I may be killing weeds on Christmas day in 2025.   If President Trump has his way, my grandchildren may be planting palm trees on the family property by 2050, if we still have a country by then.   Let's hope wiser heads prevail and we are able to halt and even begin the process of reversing climate change.  Longer gardening seasons on the NCR would be too dearly bought for my comfort.