End of May gardening

I spent about six hours working in the garden & yard yesterday, mostly figuring out a pattern to lay the soaker hose, weeding, and getting a second round of seeds started.

This year I'll be using soaker hoses to water the garden which should save time watering, water the garden more effectively, and keep the weeds down. The idea is if you control the water, you control the plants and I'm rather partial to which plants do well in the garden. We should be able to weed using a hoe in the walkways and only have to hand weed along the soaker hoses and as soon as the vegetables get to a decent sizes they should be able to crowd out the weeds.

I was planning to get a second round of seeds going so we could have multiple harvests of broccoli, peas, beans,... I decided to do it yesterday have discovering that we already have a sizable number of snap peas to harvest. I should be able to get several weeks of snap peas before those plants stop producing and hopefully my new snap pea starts will be ready by then. Next year I'm going to 'start' snap peas every two weeks so I can reliably harvest every continuously through the summer.

Yesterday'sround of seed starts included:
six green peppers
six yellow tomatoes
six lemon cucumbers
six cucumbers
six brandywine Tomatoes
four yellow zucchini
20 pole beans (several varieties)
20 snap peas (several varieties)
15 broccoli (directly into the ground)

What I already have in the ground:
30 snap peas
six beef steak tomatoes
10 broccoli
4 zucchini
several short rows of lettuce, spinach & beets