If this cold snap lasts as long as they are predicting I might get peaches off my tree this year. Its a high-chill variety ( Ranger) and it didn't produce a single peach last year because of the mild winter we had. Had about 250 the year before that. The buds haven't even started to swell as of today.

Is that gravel that you planted your fruit trees in? If so, is it for weed control, or why? Thank you Sir.

LOL ... yes, that 1/2-3/4" river gravel (pea gravel) but it's just to cover up the big rock that goes under our property (we call it the China rock, jokingly it goes all the way to China). Where the tree is, there was a low spot that had about 8-9" of natural soil on top of the rock, so we built up a 4' x 4' by ~18" tall elevated bed using landscape timber to plant the tree in. If you look to the left side of the picture, we have an elevated 4' x 8' by ~14" tall garden bed area, where there is also 8-9" of natural soil under. The "China" rock is a ledge of limestone that goes under several acres of our property that is one big solid hunk like a slab of concrete that was 5" thick in front of our house (know that from the crew putting in the septic tank system) ... so we have to go up to plant anything. The masonry work we did last weekend was to the outside of the 4x4 landscape timber frame that was pretty rotten to where we had a hard time watering the peach tree (water just ran out).

so ... since the rest of the China rock is uneven and fairly exposed over a large portion of the eastern portion of the yard area, I merely brought in several loads of pea gravel to somewhat level out the area.

It's tough to tell from the pic, but it looks like you have way too much soil around the base. You want the root flare exposed.
https://www.clemson.edu/cafls/vincent/articles/show_me_your_root_flare.pdf

Here is my lemon tree I planted this past weekend. I removed all the soil around the base when I transplanted it from the pot it was in and exposed all the flare.

yep, root flare is above ground level, what you see is mulch that we put in to help retain water.

Interesting

peach tree is middle right with the square around it, garden directly above (can't see) and the large white looking area is the China rock that goes all the way back to the house (all the way under the house for that matter). Towards the bottom, I hauled in a bunch of top soil (14-16") so we would have a little bit of a yard in that direction. The trees in the upper center portion are 2 large live oak trees that must have started in a small crack in the China rock several hundred years ago and just kept pushing the roots deeper into the crack. Both are single base with 2 and 3 main tree trunks starting at ground level. Pretty interesting. We have a Spanish red oak that started from an acorn since we moved in 21+ ears ago that started in a honeycomb hole in a surface rock about the size of a truck hood by 3 foot thick that is now about 20+ feet tall and about 8" diameter at the base, cracked the rock and we have toted most of it off in several large pieces.

Dont forget to water outside that raised box. I'm sure the roots will start circling then send roots out underneath that box's walls. Some peach tree varieties are very aggressive growers and get very large. Mine puts on about 20" of new growth per year. Yours might not be quite that aggressive.

Decided to move the grow indoors for the next few days.

Daggum 92!!! Nooooyce!

I plan to put my tomato plants in the ground if I can find them and if there are no more freeze warning,

just waiting to see how my peach tree faired during this historical cold spell. Everything looked great going into Sunday night even with temps down in the low teens and snowing like crazy ... then the power started going out, which left all the lights without power inside the enclosure. The power has been very spotty since mid day on Monday with several long periods (6 hours and 10 hours) without power ... It will be a miracle if we get any peaches this year.

Got the rest of the garden seeds started while sitting around doing nothing. Tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cucumbers.

I hope I don’t lose everything I’ve been working so damn hard on. I’m beyond pissed about this

Derek do you transplant these to the larger pots or did you start them in the larger pots?

I started the peppers in starter treys with a dome. I thin transferred them to the 4" pots you see. That's what they will stay in until I plant them outdoors. I start Tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cucumbers directly in the 4" pots since they are very easy to get the seeds to germinate.

I have started mine in the small tra ys and now have tomatoes I need to transplant I think

The tomatoes look ready to transplant. I would transplant and bury them deep. When mine are ready to go outside from the 4" pot they will be 6-8" tall. I will cut the first set of leaves off and bury them to the next set where only about 3" is out of the ground.

That is the way i transplanted mine.

when do you plant the squash,zucchini, cucumbers?

A couple weeks later for me. Bring it.

I started those seeds yesterday.

1 seed per pot or 3 and lose 2

I did 2 per pot. 3 and lose 2 would be fine.