First time Garden need some help

[mikeylikesit5805]

Hey guys, I need some advice if you don't mind. I have never planted a garden in my entire life, Decided last week that I was going to give it a try. I went out and built a raised bed. 4x6x12"(small i know but should be enough for me and my wife
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I bought tomatoes/Cucumbers/green and red peppers/hungarian wax peppers. Now from what I read these are all full sun plants. I was thinking that I should plant them in a certain order so that one plant does not block out the sun for the others. I am pretty sure tomatoes are going to be the tallest of the bunch, so I plan on planting those in the back. then the wax peppers, and followed by the green and red peppers up front. My question is how do the cucumbers grow best? I have heard trellis, but I don't even know where to start with that. Any help and advice would be good. I plan on using the square foot method. so I have 6 rows of 4 plants. I was thinking a row dedicated to each type of plant I bought.

 

[mikeylikesit5805]

Here are some pictures. I need to space it out a little bit still.

 

[Beth_B]

Welcome, mikey!

You're spot-on with your plan to plant so the larger plants don't overshadow the shorter ones. I've usually grown squash on little hills, but I've also grown them adjacent to a chain-link fence and used that as a trellis so they grew vertically.
One observation...looks like your plants might soon be crowding each other out. Maybe move a few of them to some of those buckets?

 

[Becky]

Hello and welcome to the forum! Thanks for sharing some photos, it's always nice to see other people's work

 

[mikeylikesit5805]

Hey Guys, got everything spaced out better today. tomatoes in the back, peppers up front, and cucumber in front of that. enjoy the new picture!