The Anything-But-Green Thumb's Garden

This is my second year to do a garden.  Last year was the first try.  Let's just say it was an utter disaster!  Scott and I made a huge garden with lots of different yummy things.  Well, first mistake:  we didn't label anything.  We just figured we would remember which row was which.  Yeah right!  Second mistake:  WEEDS.  Third mistake:  Our beautiful, wonderful, loving, and absent-minded Golden Retriever, Meg, ran through the dang garden so many times I lost count.  Final mistake:  You know that thing called water.  Yeah...

Well this year, I decided I didn't want to deal with the hassle of a huge garden.  Thanks to a article by Martha Stewart, I am trying to do a container garden.  So far so good.

We have onions, squash, zucchini, spinach (not doing so hot...), tomatoes, green bell peppers, red bell peppers, green beans, cucumbers, artichokes and broccoli.  I want to get another long, rectangular pot and put rosemary, basil and parsley in it.

Now, I just don't know when to pick everything.  Obviously, I can figure out when to pick the bell peppers and the tomatoes.  But what about the things that grow in the soil?