Planted...

After two and a half days of marathon planting in OMG!August-heat-but-it's-only-May weather, garden #1 is planted: 

It may not look like much from here but those radishes and beans under the teepees are growing like crazy, as are the potatoes right in front of them.  See?  Here are the radishes, with the beans right next to the poles

 and here is one of the potato plants:

 
It doesn't look like much from this angle, either:

but this end has eight rows of corn, zucchini squash, pumpkins, summer squash, and marigolds.  In the middle are onions, leeks, mustards, broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbages, among other things.  Here's the corn with the baby squashes in the middle:

 This happens to be the row with the yellow crookneck squash, but you get the idea.  The hoped for result of planting them like this is that the squash vines will act as living mulch for the corn, keeping the soil moist and (hopefully) keeping weeds to a minimum.  Next week, we will be putting peas in on the outer edges of the rows with the idea that the pea vines will climb the corn and help feed it as they fix nitrogen into the soil ~ a variation on the Native American Three Sisters combination except we are using peas instead of beans because the beans seemed more suited to the teepees.  We'll see how well that all works.

If you start at the far end (where you can see the teepees) the exact order of things is:
Rosa Bianca eggplant, Diablo cosmos, St. Valery and Paris Market carrots with sage in the middle, 1 and 1/2 rows each of Kennebec and French fingerling potatoes, teepees with Kentucky Wonder (green) and Pencil Pod Wax beans with French Breakfast, Philadelphia White Box, and Cincinnati Market radishes; Early Snowball cauliflower with dill, Mammoth Red Rock cabbage with dill, Early Snowball cauliflower (seeds), Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage with hyssop, a wide row containing one row each of black, brown, and white mustards; Yellow of Parma onions and Prizetaker leeks, Red Wethersfield onions and Detroit Dark Red beets, DeCicco broccoli, a double wide row of Golden Bantam corn with Charentais melons in the middle, a double wide row of Golden Bantam and Reid's Yellow Dent corn with Long Island Cheese pumpkins in between, a double wide row Reid's Yellow Dent and Stowell's Evergreen corn with Early Yellow Crookneck squash in between, a double wide row of Stowell's Evergreen corn with Costa Romanesca zucchini in between, and marigolds on the very edge.  Not a bad couple of days' work.  The real trick is going to be to get everything to grow successfully.