Summer Veggies to Plant

So the cabin fever is really staring to get to me. It has rained every day this week, to the point that we can't go outside, can't take the dogs outside, and can't do anything more outside than plan yard projects on paper and dream of sunshine!
But, with all that free time I managed to log on here and notice I haven't posted since May! Time for an update on the garden and yard projects :)
In June we harvested the onions, potatoes, and garlic from the garden, and planted new plants for summer.

The onions and garlic turned out great! We planted them last fall to overwinter in the box, and they did better than expected! We got over a pound of garlic and three pounds of onions! I've never gotten so much out of the onions before, I highly recommend the products at Grow Organic, where I purchased the purple Italian garlic cloves and white onion sets http://www.groworganic.com/ Both have grown fabulously and have an amazing flavor!

We also tried a new system (or new to us) for growing the potatoes this year, and we harvested over two pounds this June! Yukon Gold potatoes are what we planted, and I think they're our new favorite. They hold up great for frying and baking, and still make a rich mashed potato with just a little more boiling time than russet potatoes. This year we cleaned all of the dirt out of the box we designated for potatoes and planted the seed potatoes in small hills of dirt in the bottom of the box. As the sprouts grew tall enough, we layered in compost and mulched leaves, with very little dirt to try to keep from compacting the roots. Seems to have worked, we'll try it again this August and see if it works more than once!

All that harvesting left us with plenty of open space for new plants! In the back row of the box we added bell peppers, banana peppers, yellow sweet cherry tomatoes, red cherry tomatoes, and a German basil. We replaced the cold lettuces with some bibb and other leaf lettuces in the center box, and I'm hoping to replant the carrots soon. We also added watermelons and pumpkins to the corn patch, to help keep down the grass down, and they're really starting to spread already!

Only thing I'm not having success with is broccoli, I can't seem to keep the bugs off of it! I think I'm going to pull it out and toss it, that seems to be the only thing the worms are eating, I want to keep it that way!

Hopefully the rain stops soon and I can get some new pictures! I'll update soon!