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. That timeline takes me to the second week of 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) the entire month of May and into the second week of June will be the more delicate part of my recovery as I slowly . . . slowly and gently over 4 weeks . . . start to put weight on that foot.
May is not a return to normalcy, instead it will be the month I can be upright and mobile. At times. Still with a boot, indoors, only a little upright and barely mobile for only short times.
Nothing outside will be doable in May, especially not kneeling to plant things and then getting up. Or walking around on uneven ground. Or carrying buckets of anything or shopping for pots of plants.
So I am focusing on June. Still an early month in summer and some tasks done then will still bear results in July and August. But realistically, I'll be in physical therapy and still learning to walk again even in June.
Return to normal activities will be slow. Mid summer.
That's the update for the lost season of my garden.