My sister is like me, just wanting a few fresh veggies to use in the meals. I feel sorry for her and hope some come back. I lost my entire garden a few years ago as well.
Upstate New York (Rochester)
Usually we don’t plant until Memorial Day up here, for fear of late frost. But this year I am getting started three weeks ahead of time.
Already put out about a dozen seven gallon container potted plants, assorted annuals so that I’m surrounded by various purple flowers when I have the morning coffee.
This week has been raking, trimming back tall grasses (shame ofnme for slothness in not doing it last fall!), cleaning out beds. I have three more beds to prepare and an overgrown hill to try to tame with fabric and mulch.
I hope to get all my planting in within a week. A sudden frost would really wreck me but I’m going to roll the dice.
Hubby lost his whole garden last year as well. I didn’t even plant 4 of the raised beds last year, because I knew that I wouldn’t be able to water them.
It wasn’t until fall that I actually got a crop of tomatoes. Before that the squirrels were stripping off even the tiniest and really green tomatoes just for the moisture.