Food We're Growing and Some Silly Hats

Now that almost everything has been planted, either from seedlings or seeds, I thought I'd post a quick run-down of the things we're growing. 

You'll soon understand why I've been trying to pull in the reins on our gardening, both in terms of spending and planting.  We've planted a lot.  Almost too much, I think.  We have five raised beds, several ground level beds along our chain-link fence, a ground level bed along the privacy fence, a slightly raised bed behind our shed, and another ground level bed in front of our back deck.  And those are just the veggie beds.  Who knows what will be abundant and what will struggle?  This is only our second year gardening, so we're still very much novices.

Here are the food plants we're trying to grow:

Asparagus
Beets
Bell peppers
Blueberries
Carrots
Collard greens
Cucumbers
Eggplants
Garlic
Green beans
Lettuce, mixed
Lettuce, Romaine
Okra
Onions, green
Onions, yellow slicing
Parsnips
Peas, snow
Peas, sugar snap
Potatoes
Radishes, red round
Radishes, white "icicle"
Rhubarb
Scarlet runner beans (see below)
Squash, acorn
Squash, spaghetti
Squash, zucchini
Swiss chard
Tomatoes
Turnips
Watermelon

The scarlet runner beans are great climbers with red flowers; the vines will hide the paint-peeling lattice below our back deck AND provide food.  You can eat the pods when they are young (like green beans) and eat the seeds when they are more mature (like lima or pinto beans).

We have some ornamental trees in both the front and back of our house, but most of our flowering plants will be out front.  I'll post more about them once we get them planted.

Sorry there are no pictures, but the gardens aren't much to look at yet.  In a couple of weeks they should be photo-worthy.  Instead, here we are in our new silly gardening hats.