Garden all planted

Took advantage of warm weather on Memorial Day and got the rest of the garden in!

I watered it, then in the evening it rained. Perfect timing!

Whole garden

Bottom terrace
I only did 5 tomato plants this year. None of them are Cougar Red, because I missed the plant sale at the University. Better luck next year, I guess.

Here's what I did put in:
Far corner: 'Brandywine' Heirloom tomato, matures in 75-100 days, indeterminate.

Along back wall: 'Early Girl', indeterminate

In front of EG: 'Oregon Spring', matures in 58-65 days, determinate.

2 small plants furthest right: 'Sungold', matures in 57 days (our favorite cherry tomato)

Instead of putting marigolds all in one spot, this year I interspersed them with the tomato plants more. Since I have these nice cages ($6 each!), I'm hoping there will be room around the bottoms of the stems for the marigolds to shine through.

Closeup of bottom terrace, far left corner.

This picture was mainly to show the Rosemary I planted in the very corner:

Rosmarinus 'Roman Beauty'

I'm hoping that the corner there will be a somewhat protected location, that will allow the rosemary to survive the winter. Ht 12", sp. 18", hardy to 10 degrees F.

Also, top right of this picture (above the oregano) you can see the 2 little basil plants I put in: Basil 'superbo,' Classic Italian Basil.

Not much to see here, just the 2 hills of cucumbers, both 'Bush Pickle' variety. Matures in 48 days, fruit size 4". As you can see, 3 plants per hill. We may be overflowing with cucumbers if they all produce well.

I have one hill of zucchini (planted 3 seeds) next to these cucumbers, and a full 1/3 of the bed given over to it. I'm sure it will suck up all the space I give it and then some.

Finally got the twine up for the peas to climb.

I have a few actually reaching for the second string already.

I decided not to replant the back row. Instead I put some flower seeds in--climbers with orange flowers and green centers...thunbergia? something like that. If they come up (seeds take 15-25 days to germinate!) I'll go get the seed packet so I have the real name listed.

Top terrace

2 peppers, both 'Italian Yellow Bell', which I tried last year and wasn't super impressed with. I may put some sort of warmth-holding ground cloth around them, though. 65 days (supposedly).

Yep, a bunch of dirt.

So the rest of the top terrace I planted with sunflowers ('Waaooh') in a row along the wall, and 3 corn plants in front of each, for a total of 12 corn.

Then a section of the purple green beans from last year: 'Royal Burgundy' I believe is the exact type. I was going to plant other bush beans, but my only other bean seeds left were pole beans, and I just didn't have it in me this year to rig up a trellis for pole beans. Maybe next year.

I bought some new nasturtium seed that I plan to plant all along the very front as well. The 'Fordhook Favorites Mix', which are supposed to be fragrant climbers. Hooray!

I just need to rub a nail file on the seeds, then I'll get them planted. (Advice from the back of the seed packet--maybe my other seed didn't germinate very well because I didn't score the seed...?)