JoeSoCookbook: JoeSoGarden, Bloomfield Edition, in the Ground

I moved into a first floor apartment last Fall, and this will be my first Spring and Summer here. I'm the only one who uses the backyard -- the upstairs neighbors don't even have a back door, so it's all mine. There's a nice planter box on the left side along the fence. Until today it had a few weeds and about a dozen 2 year old onions scattered across one side. But I cleared that sucker out and started my Garden 2013, Bloomfield Edition!!

A week ago I went to Home Depot and bought several seedlings and seed packets:

3 (4-packs) of broccoli (so, 12 plants)
a red pepper plant
a banana pepper plant
a cilantro plant
a basil plant
a tomato plant
cilantro seeds
broccoli seeds
carrot seeds
and a bunch of onions

So today I cleared out the planter box, plus this other triangular area that had these old, 2 foot tall, dead plants in it. The soil in the box seemed really nice. I planted the broccoli plants in 3 rows of 4. It should be hearty enough to withstand a frost. I also put in the cilantro plant -- maybe a little early, but I think it should be fine. Then I planted one row of carrot seeds. They're also hearty enough to survive a light frost. Getting the broccoli and carrots in this early miiight allow me to do a second harvest of each.

When I used to do a garden on Beeler I would always end up with too much of one thing at the same time. All the tomatoes would be ready at once. I remember playing cucumber dodge with dozens of these fat round cukes. When I grew zuchini, I had like 3 dozen huge zuchini all at the same time. So I want to try and stagger things this time. Do less of each item, or half-and-half a month apart. Also, for the broccoli and cilantro I got seeds in addition to the seedlings, so those will be separate crops if I end up doing both.