Planning the Squares

Before things actually go into the ground I wanted to spend a little time planning out which veggies go in which squares. There is the issue of bigger veggies (corn) shading smaller veggies, but I also don't want everything to come up at once, i.e. I don't need 40 ears of corn on June 20th. I want to stagger my plantings so I can have certain types of veggies ripening throughout the year.

I simply chose which veggies my wife and I like to eat. We are members of a local CSA farm, Johnson's Backyard Garden, which we are a huge fan of, except that they don't really discriminate in what they grow. There is a cool quality to it because you get exposed to new stuff and learn about how to cook it, but you end up getting really weird stuff, like kohlrabe, swiss chard, or more eggplant than you could ever eat for literally months in a row. So our planned crops are pretty normal. I've got 25 squares and 21 planned crops:

seeds...I haz em

• Sweet corn
• White corn
• Snowbird peas
• Greenbeans
• Buttercrunch lettuce
• Mesclun salad mix
• Spinach
• Carrots
• Cucumbers
• Cucumbers for pickling

I also have a bag of red potato slips and red onion slips, strawberries, as well as the peppers and tomatoes I am starting indoors:

• Cherry Tomatoes
• Roma Tomatoes
• Beefsteak Tomatoes
  
• Habanero Peppers
• Jalapeno Peppers
• Pepperoncini Peppers
  
• Bell Peppers
• Hungarian Wax Peppers
• Chile (Anaheim) Peppers

So here is a draft layout of the crops. The tallest crops are in the top right (the sun goes up the left side of this box):

I will likely swap out the late carrots with the pepperoncini peppers.