My extensive planting plans and redesigns for this season got canceled as soon as I realized I'd be non weight bearing for 8 weeks, likely 12. That takes me through May, and I had hoped to be back in the garden sometime later in that month, graduating from partial weight to full weight and I thought that meant walking normally by Memorial Day.
In time to salvage planting some things, shopping for a few additions and potting up things for a normal summer.
But that is not realistic.
Even with my good prognosis (x-ray evidence of bone healing, no surgery, fractures are aligned and stable) May will be spent learning to walk in the boot after 8 weeks of non weight bearing, and June will be spent weaning out of the boot and into shoes at times.
May is not a return to normalcy. June is not either -- although I'll be able to deadhead a few things and trim the vine, stepping in uneven mulch carefully in the boot. Shoes will be for indoor walking only.
So even in June I won't be kneeling to plant, then getting up. No carrying buckets or shopping for pots of plants. Or crawling under shrubs to cut suckers or dead branches.
It will be July before a return to any activities beyond trimming or deadheading or watering at times in the garden. Mid summer. I can still plant then I think.
That's the update for the lost season of my garden.