On Friday July 18 2014, we planted the 15 plots at one house. Each plot was planted with corn and then a variety of melon, cucumber and summer squash.

Here you can see the preparation process 

 First a hole dug into the dirt. That breaker bar is necessary in nearly all the soil I work in for smashing compacted dirt and clay and prying out rocks.

 Loose soil mixed with compost or manure is returned to the hole and covered with a mulch.

A finished garden. 

By Thursday, July 24, cucurbit and corn seedlings were already showing through the leaf, grass and twig mulch. The lady of the house said that the seedlings had started to show that Tuesday, July 22, only four days after seeding.