I will make a longer post later, but for now I just need to record what was done yesterday.  We went to the farm on the way home from New York and I finished getting the beds prepared.  The soil still needs some work, but I got the bed frames settled around the beds, and all the spare soil from outside the frames shoveled in.  Tomorrow I will go out there and hopefully finish the soil work on the primary beds.

I am thinking of changing the plan to the extent that I plant half the plan now and use the existing  beds for potatoes/zucchini as well.  Then I can create additional beds for the other half of the crops, which will give some staggered harvesting.  I do not think we can successfully plant in the area I was going to put the Potato Patches and Zucchini Mounds without serious additional work and added compost.  This way we can get a full variety going, and then do the work on the additional garden area while the first planting grows.  I am also only going to plant three Three Sisters mounds at a time, with ten-fourteen days between each planting as Bob suggested.