No seedlings... just SEEDS!

The rest of the garden is finally going in - it's a total mess, I guess I'm going to have that "cottage garden" after all, take a look at my "plans".... I use that term very loosely!  It's nothing but scribbles and names of seeds with no specific place to put them.

I ripped out the broccoli, after only just a few spears, it was showing signs that it was getting ready to bolt in the heat already, so it came out to make room for bush beans.  So the bed below now contains bush beans, peppers, and peas.  A second planting of bush beans will go in after the peas come out.  It looks like I may be harvesting peas in a couple of weeks.

I did another sowing of lettuces, I hope they germinate quickly since all the current ones are mature.  I really need to work on my successive sowing, I tend to plant a whole bed and then am left saying "duh" a few weeks later!

I don't know what the below lettuce is, but I only have one of them.  It must have been in one of the "mixes".  It's so beautiful I hate to pick it, but I will this week.

I sowed a lot more of the below, "Bronze Mignonette" Lettuce, not only is it beautiful and delicious, it is doing really well in the heat!  I'll try and remember to keep you updated on how heat tolerant it becomes as the summer continues to heat up.

I'm harvesting this much lettuce every evening now... sure would like to see some red in these harvests - it's always a battle in our heat to get lettuce to keep producing once the tomatoes start coming in.  For now, we get lettuces, scallions, and basil on a regular basis.

Below is a detailed list of what went down out there today, the idea is to keep a record so I can see if any of these made a noticeable difference good or bad, at the end of the season.

Today's plantings:

• Chinese Red Noodle Bean - (on arch spanning beds with existing peas, greens, peppers, carrots, scallions, dill, zinnias & pansies)
• Contender Bush Bean - (bed with existing peas & peppers)
• Golden Wax Bean -  (bed with existing peas & peppers)
• Dragon Beans - (bed with existing peas & peppers)
• Spicy Mix Mesclun - (greens bed)
• Mizuna Greens - (greens bed)
• Bronze Mignonette Lettuce - (greens bed)
• Tango Lettuce - (greens bed)
• Green Salad Bowl Lettuce - (greens bed)
• Bunching Onions (Scallions) - (greens bed)
• Chives - (in tomato bed)
• Bouquet Dill - (greens bed)
• Mammoth Dill - (container with cucumbers)
• Cilantro - (greens bed)
• Japanese Climbing Cucumber - (in container with dill)
• Parisian Pickling Cucumber - (in ground on trellis)
• Solly Beiler Cucumber - (in ground on trellis)
• Sugar Baby Bush Watermelon - (in containers next to hops)

Still left to plant:

• Danvers Carrots
• Perfecto Radish
• Nasturtium
• Edamame
• Gourmet Pie Mix Pumpkin
• Hokkaido Squash
• Waltham Butternut Squash
• Ornamental Gourds
• Sunflowers
• Peanuts

A few things I am going to try this year as recommended in the book "Carrots Love Tomatoes"...

• Sow radishes but do not pull - with cucumbers, squash & melons to repel striped cucumber beetle, let the radishes grow as long as they will, even letting them go to seed, for squash - sow a few radish in each hill and let grow and go to seed
• Plant nasturtium with squash to repel squash bugs
• Place basil leaves over tomatoes in a bowl in the kitchen to repel fruit flies
• Keep growing more lemon balm - there is an old belief that bees will not leave the hive area if Lemon Balm is grown near it
• There is tons more info in the book, but these are the ones that jumped out at me as immediately useful or pertained to things I had already planned on planting!