I have 3 vegetable gardens.
One full of my perenials, stawberries, rhubarb and lots of asparagus. So it doesnt take a ton of work except in the spring and then again in the fall to get it ready for winter.
My second one is my Corn/Pumpkin/Sunflower Patch. It is at the edge of a 80 acre field I plant the pumpkins 1st and then when the plants emerge I come in a start planting corn. I plant 3 rows and then every other week plant 3 more until the 4th of July when i stop (usually 18 rows) then as the corn grow taller the pumpkin vines climb the corn and the pumkins themselves grow larger by being shaded below the grown corn. The sunflowers I ring this garden with, mostly for the birds in the fall.
My last garden is my largest. It is about 50 x 80 but is very spread out. I keep a tillers width around everything that way there is less weeding. I am also big on using grass clippings to keep the weeds down. I put about 3" inches thick of clippings around the tomotoe plants. This year I have 4 types of tomotoes, two long rows of potatoes, green, red, purple mild peppers; cayenne and banana peppers; 8 rows of green beans; about 6 types of squash, zukinini, sweet potatoes, okra, cucumbers for eating and some for pickling, brocoli and cabbage.
I do manually hoe around the beans and the mounds of all the squashes and such, but I enjoy it. I can a bunch in the late summer and fall and I made a cabinet in my garage with wire shelves and a updraft air flow and it keeps my potatoes fresh until about february. I tried carrots last year to much failure, there is just too much clay around her for them to work...oh but the shapes I got of them last year
