| If you have made yourself a shade house/area you could use that later in the season to start your seedlings of broccoli, etc. You've mentioned that your property is windy so you might want to make getting wind protection a high priority. Wind will whisk away water from your plants like you wouldn't believe. Also do a check around for making yourself some plant shaders. Homemade trellising, horticultural mesh and shade cloth - even ancient bedsheets (at a pinch, and out of sight of the curious!) can all help to protect young plants until they are well-settled. If you plan to grow from seed - it definitely pays to have a set up that lets you start plants under shelter (wind, hot sun, any frosts) ready for setting out later. Some plants need to be direct drilled (sown straight into the soil) because they don't transplant well but others you can grow from seeds out of the ground and move in as land becomes free of the last crop. Some of the crops you've mentioned - asparagus and artichoke - are perennial and really need their own custom-assembled grow-site to give you great results. Some of the others - pumpkins and melons - are in for most of the growing time - particularly if you have several varieties on the go. You might want to consider setting up a separate place for crops that aren't going to be around for months at a time. One way past that is to get the vines to grow up a frame. I think there's information about this style of growing in the Square Foot Gardening forum. As summer seems to be a 'quiet' time because of the heat - you could use the interval to set out your beds and build some of the shelter and workspaces you could find useful. (Better than winter, for true!) | 
