My garden is doing the best ever here in the difficult Colorado Rockies. Our average time between frosts is only 90 days. I had lots of starts indoors in containers for over a month to get a better growth period. I also used 1/4 inch fence to keep the chipmunks away from plants they seem to like. I also over planted to allow for some chipmunk thieving. So far so good. I have gotten one tomato so far. Some years I have gotten frozen before the first tomato.
“Chipmunk thieving” - cute! Hubby planted corn for the deer in their own garden. Crazy but it worked - they ate theirs and left ours alone!
I admire your fortitude. Glad you are having success this year. We have a longer period, but when you take out the drought months of July and August, it’s not so good.
Taters can go in April 1, but the cool wet spring isn’t conducive to tomatoes and corn type stuff, so next year we are going to find all the short 60 DMT things we can find.