I now live in a 4a zone in Northern Ontario with a 55 day grow season.

This link has some great info for your area. Good luck! https://www.gardenia.net/plant-combinations/regions/north-america/canada

You sure are welcome in Texas. Way down near the Mexican border our growing season is close to year round. Here in north Texas, we have about a 9-10 month growing season, depending on the plants and veggies. We love Snow Birds! ☺️ Toni Ziegler, too!

https://www.ufseeds.com/learning/planting-schedules/Zone-4-Planting-Calendar

All you need to learn to do is Google (my preferred search engine.) I always tell my trainees that if you can read, follow instructions and Google, you can rule the world. Here are a bunch of sites go get you started!

http://www.canadianliving.com/home-and-garden/article/how-to-start-a-vegetable-garden

https://www.westcoastseeds.com/garden-resources/west-coast-seeds-planting-charts/

https://naturecanada.ca/news/connect-with-nature-start-planning-your-spring-garden/

http://smallfarmcanada.ca/2017/2018-seed-buying-guide/

http://www.chatelaine.com/home-decor/10-perennials-to-plant-for-an-infinitely-beautiful-garden/

https://adenearthworks.com/news/our-picks-for-ontario-perennials-annuals-to-add-to-your-garden/

http://growingnorth.ca/2014/09/gardening-in-n-w-ontario-canada-land-of-snow/

https://seasonalontariofood.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-to-grow-in-small-basic-garden.html

https://youtu.be/C95T6mFHvLk

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/gardening-by-zone/zone-4/gardening-in-zone-4.htm

I live in Canada An day grow peppers! I use shallow garden boxes so the heat gets to the soil. 14” deep. I grow potatoes in cloth burlap bags, easy to harvest

* and I grow peppers and tomatoes

I live in zone 4b in SE Minnesota. I watch the seed packets for the amount of days it takes to get to maturity when it comes to picking what I am going to plant. Bush beans grow quickly, if you want you can plant every two weeks to have succession planting and a little longer producing. You can start a lot of things indoors and plant as soon as the ground reaches about fifty degrees. There are some things, like corn and carrots that don't take well to being transplanted, so you would have to plant the seeds in the garden, just look for faster maturing kinds. I probably have a longer growing period than you do, but I am able to grow lots of veggies by purchasing plants, the bigger ones will mature more quickly since the are larger. I plant some more in pots, like lettuce, more peppers, herbs and a tomato plant. I have them near the garage and on wheels so that I can move them into the garage when it gets cold enough at night, but warm enough during the day and that lengthens the growing time also.

Linda, if you grow your garden in pots, you will be able to take advantage of the fact that the sun will hit the pots and warm the soil and may mature plants easier. The smaller tomatoes like early girl will mature faster. I put my one that I put in a pot in a minimum of twenty four inches across. I had more than enough tomatoes ripen just on that plant that I was giving them away to relatives and friends. I grew leaf lettuce in the same pot, six in that pot and it took me through late fall because I wheeled it out of the hot sun when it was too warm and only gave it morning and evening sun. I grow herbs in ten to twelve inch pots and have a large bounty each year, as the plants get huge, in the fall I pick and dry or freeze them for use until the crop the next year. You can grow just about anything in pots as long as the pots are big enough for the mature plants. You should try a couple of pots and see if that works for you. Starting plants indoors doesn't take up much room. If you have a bookcase that isn't too tall it would hold the starter containers without a problem, get a grow light to hang above them and you are set. I repurposed and aquarium stand in my library for that last year, and it has now become a permanent plant stand for a big terrarium from a repurposed critter cage and holds whatever plants need the light in that room (southern sun in the winter). I rearranged my little library/back room to hold five large hibiscus plants over the winter, it definitely is crowded, but they are still alive to go outside when it finally decides to get warmer! You can do it! If you talk to someone from your county extension, they may have many suggestions for flowers and veggies that will thrive in the growing season that you have. If you do some pots and they are large it is easy to make a low stand with casters with plywood, just get good casters from the local home improvement store that aren't all plastic, they don't last but a few days. Being able to move them is a big plus!

If you build raised beds, the soil will warm up faster and be easier for you to tend. You will get a longer growing season this way. Put good soil, compost, peat moss into the bed. You could also add a 2" plastic pipe with holes in it to use as a water supply and place in the bed as it will dry out faster than regular ground.

You are most welcome Linda! I love my flowers and plants, they make me happy. I want you to have some too!