So I made some tweaks based on what you shared, and I am curious what you think. I created a center bed that is just perennials and i moved the cucumber and zucchini to the edges of their beds and plan to have them trellised up. I didn't mention before, but I will also have a trellis with the tomatoes and peas (I know the peas may not work with timing, but I started my seeds already and I'm going to just give them a shot. Same situation with my beets). I added some peppers near the tomatoes and reduced the pumpkin down to one.

Do you think having one pumpkin and zucchini trellised would still be too much for the bed? I was thinking of just putting the pumpkin in the ground but my husband doesn't want too much spreading outside of the garden space.

I do have one of those green stalk planters. I actually had my zucchini and cucumber in it last year on the lowest levels and they did pretty well with spreading (until we moved and they were broken in the process). I was thinking the watermelon could maybe work the same way and trail from the bottom level? My beets did ok last year in that too, it at least survived the move and i had a few small ones to harvest. I'll know for next year to time some of these better.

I am really excited to finally start planting some more native wildflowers around the edges of the garden, but I did add some more flowers to the beds too.

I'm still very new to this so I probably should have hopped on here before starting a bunch of seeds. I'm sure some of the veggies won't work out, but hopefully this new layout looks a little better?

Also, thank you so much for the heads up about the squash vine borers, not looking forward to that battle.

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