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) the entire month of May and into early June will be non weight bearing. The more delicate part of my recovery as I slowly . . . slowly and gently over 4 weeks . . . start to put weight on that foot will be the full month of June.
May is not a return to normalcy. June is not either -- that will be the month I practice being upright and mobile. At times. Still with a boot, indoors, only a little upright and barely mobile only for short times.
Nothing outside will be doable in June, not kneeling to plant, not getting up. Not carrying buckets or shopping for pots of plants. Or walking around on uneven ground. Although I may be able to toddle out with a boot and crutch and trim the Virginia creeper or pull a weed or two.
It will be July before a return to any activities in the garden. Mid summer. I can still plant then I think.
That's the update for the lost season of my garden.