We finally got seeds into the ground! We planted the beans Friday night or so but all the rest of the garden got planted today. We ordered most of our seeds from Baker Creek at rareseeds.com. There are a few exceptions that are leftover seeds from last year. Here is the list of what is now planted in the actual garden.

• Suyo Long Cucumbers
• Good Mother Stallard Beans
• Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans
• Christmas Pole Limas
• Yellow Summer Crookneck Squash (not from Baker Creek)
• Blue Lake 274 Garden Bean (not from Baker Creek)
• Butternut-Waltham Squash
• Winter Luxury Pie Pumpkin 
• Rampicante Zuccherino Melon
• Casaba-Golden Beauty Melon
• Ali Baba Watermelon
• Great White Tomato
• Beduin Tomato
• Rev. Marrows Long Keeper Tomato
• Pearly Pink Tomato
• Siam Queen Thai Basil
• Brocade Mix Marigold
• Common Chives

Here is my highly accurate and very spiffy Paint version of the garden. The crossed out plot had a metal pipe sticking up once we started digging there, also the grass around it was dead, so we just left it and didn't plant anything there. Eventually, I will post a real picture.

We more or less planted along the square foot gardening idea. You will find that we do lots of things in a "more or less" fashion. We are also trying some companion planting.

Apparently, everything likes Basil and Marigolds. Tomatoes like the onion family; beans don't like the onion family. Peppers don't like tomatoes.

Today, we only planted seeds, none of our seedlings are even sprouted yet. I started tomatoes and peppers inside, but I didn't get them planted as soon as I should have. I still have no idea if they are going to sprout or not.

I decided to hedge my bets with the tomatoes (oops, I spelled that wrong on my nifty picture) and planted seeds straight into the ground as well.

There are still more things that need planting. I hope to get some okra seeds from my sister soon and we'll be planting our peppers in the front yard to show off the beautiful plants. I have some New Zealand Spinach that is supposed to be able to take heat that still isn't planted. Not to mention the flower garden and herb garden I want to create.

Baker Creek sent us a complimentary package of Lemon Queen Sunflower seeds and I did get them planted along our back fence yesterday.