"...(sort of) straight rows of veggies!"

I wrote an entry entitled The Best Mother's Day Gift Ever! just after, you guessed it, Mother's Day and stated my intention of growing "...(sort of) straight rows of veggies!".  Well, I guess some of the rows are "sort of" straight even though the overall look is somewhat chaotic: at the very least, a salad for dinner is an absolute necessity tonight in order to make room for the radishes planted next to the lettuces.  You can, of course, see the  row of radishes next to the lettuce, right?

Despite that fact that some of the veggies are clearly thriving, the beets, spinach, swiss chard,  and possibly the carrots (the jury is still out on that one), all planted from seed, are a disappointment.  The sprout rates on the spinach and beets were low and the rate of growth of all the seedlings unimpressive.  The radishes, which were  also planted from seed on the same day, are progressing more satisfactorily despite the crowding from the onion and lettuce.

The big decision is whether to officially give up on the spinach, beets and carrots and try to find some other vegetable seedlings to plant instead or whether to just leave that space for the other plants to take over. I think I'm leaning in favour of the latter strategy.

 
The  zucchini plants seem to be very happy in their pot -- I'm even starting to hope that there will be a zucchini harvest in the near future.  And, to my credit,  the zucchinis (all two of them) are planted in a perfectly straight row.