Oh, and corn.. Can't leave out corn! lol =P

I plant every year the first week of may so you are in plenty of time.I know when the gardening bug bites you want to make a huge garden. If this is your first garden you really have a lot of plants. ten watermelons will take a huge amount of space. i started with 10 tomatoes,4 sweet peppers,6 jalepenos,6 habernaros, 6 cantelopes and 4 cucumbers and had my hands full. i now have cantelopes in seperate bed with trellises tomatoes in cages and peppers in seperate end of plot we grow for only two of us so the amounts arent great but expierience has showed ne to scale back cause at harvest time I just had too much stuff. I plant and then water with MG then only use MG aboiut every 3 weeks. peppers are slow growing so dont worry when every thing else takes off.

Just go ahead and plant the stuff. You'll learn more from your mistakes than your successes. ;-) Nothing beats just getting out there and doing it.

Vegetables are usually kind of broken down into warm-weather and cool-weather crops. If you haven't live plants of the cool-weather stuff, you would probably be better off planting it in late summer or fall, depending on the plant.

I believe there is a garden book for your neck of the woods called something like Southern Living Gardening or Southern Gardening put out by Southern Living magazine. It should answer a lot of your questions. I saw it in the library system here, so it certainly should be in yours.

Below is a link to a list of vegetables that can take partial shade.

Good luck!

Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: Veggies that will tolerate partial shade