Your cherry tomato seeds will be fine. In my yard, I have volunteer tomato seedlings every year, even after a long cold winter. I suspect that by May, the cherry tomato seeds will be cherry tomato plants, but you can always sow another container if you choose.

I adopted a male stray who's 3-4 years old and he's been a joy. It took a bit of time, since I adopted him in August, but he's developed his personality and has changed a bit from the cat I brought home. He was fearful of toys and followed me everywhere. Now he goes round 10 with the over-the-door squeaky bird toy I got him and is always fascinated for hours by the Cat Dancer. He's more playful but still affectionate, mostly quiet (except when those naughty squirrels on the deck tease him to no end!) but his personality definitely blossomed during the time I've had him. I found it took him a while to really get into the sisal rope and I had to place scratchers by my mattress, which was his favorite sharpening post, and with treats he now has no interest in the mattress anymore. Here is a link that might be useful:

Apologies to those upset by my post above. My efforts have certainly not been aimed at exterminating all of the Carpenter Bees, it was only when the hovering, buzzing cloud of bees in front of the garage grew so numerous that it wasn't possible to get into the garage without one or more threatening, dive-bombing and chasing me, that I would find a small straight stick and and swing it at the hovering, threatening male bees. Even then, even with careful focusing and aiming, it might take dozens of missed swings before one does connect. Often times the bees seem to decide "this guy's crazy" and fly off on their own before I connect with any and I'm fine with that result. I considering it "sporting" to choose a method with such a low probability of killing one. I consider my method less harmful to the species than those further up-thread who use a tennis racket, where every swing likely results in a hit and a kill. And much less harmful than stuffing an alcohol soaked cottonball into their hole. which will condemn the developing larvae in the nest to a slow death by starvation and likely will kill the female through poisoning as she tries to chew her way through the cottonball to reach her family. And I consider stomping them after hitting them a quick merciful death as opposed to leaving them buzzing and injured and unable to fly, where they may slowly die from their injuries or be eaten alive by ever-present, opportunistic ants. I much prefer not killing, but when it is necessary I feel it should be as humane as possible. Some of the objections here seem similar to those who object to using a snap-trap on mice, who instead advocate using either poison bait which results in the mouse being just as dead, but also may result in a predator species, a cat, a fox, an owl or another raptor, being sickened or killed; or using the sticky glue traps, that result in a slow, protracted, agonizing death that seems straight out of the dark ages.

An elevated bed would be a huge amount of hassle to maintain, would not be able to accommodate anything large enough to act as a screen and would just look weird, imo, out in the middle of an essentially natural-looking woodsy yard. If you can live with some wire netting fences for a while you should be able to get a variety of shrubs and small trees established. There really is a huge range available, both evergreen and deciduous, and you have masses of space.