interplanting and companion planting plans- my garden sampler

I am trying to get as MUCH out of my 3 small beds as possible!!!! I have interplanted and companion planted everything! But my whole thing is pushing the bar and see what comes up! I will keep my blog updated on how each thing is doing, but I wanted to let all my readers know what I have decided to companion plant.

bed 1 is split in half. This bed is half sunflowers, corn, and beans. That being said, the corn is of one kind, as are the sunflowers. The beans are mixed between a few sample varieties, and soybeans. Now, there have been a lot of people that say pole beans, a lot that say bush beans... I went with Bush beans, as I was planting at the same time and did not want them to smother the corn.

The other half was planted with amaranth and quinoa. I interplanted these two with radishes and carrots. I figured that radish and carrots are companion plants, and the radishes would grow out before the carrots and amaranth/quinoa needed the space.

THEN!!!! yea, I added more... I planted a few squash, watermelon, pumpkin, and melon seeds randomly around the bed...

We will see what grows and what doesn't from this bed. I figured if I overpacked it, whatever will not grow in our soil won't grow, but I should get something! I don't think I have much to lose by doing this.

In bed 2, that has yet to be planted, and for good reason- this is the bed I am relying on to produce this season. I am going to plant this one with started plants (more on bed 2 later).

In bed 3, the little bed, it is another experimental bed- mostly! In this bed, I planted a hedge of moringa trees(against a fence), and in the remaining bed, I planted tomatoes and cucumbers in back (as companions), and various lettuces in front.

So beds one and three are purely experimental in many ways for me... it will tell me what will produce well in my little microclimate, and what won't.

OVERCOMING THE ODDS: The girl next door told me that she never bothered to have a garden because "nothing grows here". While I know this is wrong, the question is, in such a tough climate (hot, humid, rainy, then dry) what will grow? That is what these two beds are going to tell me(hopefully). I want to amend the soil the way I would if it were my own home. I just want to cut our bills. In fact, if tomatoes were the only thing that grew I would be totally happy! I would just plant only tomatoes the next season and my family would be having every thing from tomato soup to tomato sauce to tomato salad... we will update you on the status of our little garden as it comes along.