Here’s the garden plan so far. The beds are 4x5 and are actually going to be all in a straight line (not in a rectangle like the diagram shows) running east/west with the top left bed in the diagram being the west-most one. There is going to be 24" of walking/working space around each one on all sides and all beds will have large trellises at the back (north side), with the fourth probably having a trellis for the melons on the west side too. I’m hoping to use a 33/33/33 mixture of peat moss, vermiculite, and compost; tonight I’ll figure out how many cubic feet of each I’d need for the beds (which are 12" high) and then tomorrow I’ll price it all out. I’d rather not go with "traditional" soil.

Some of the squares (each one is one square foot) are blank because I don’t know what I want to put in them. Some of the squares (for example, the carrots) will be planted in stages - plant a few, let them sprout and grow a little, plant some more, etc, so they’re not all ready to pick at the same time. It is just me and B and occasionally S and his daughter so it’s not like I’m feeding a family of five. The tomatoes and peppers will hopefully be made into salsa and sauce and the like, hence the relatively large number of those plants.