Rather than posting this question here, you might want to try posting it on the Virginia area forum. I'm sure there are lots of people there who could give you some good advice. Bulbs would make pretty accents but they won't hold the slope together. How about daylilies for that slope? the naturalizing type of daylilies would do great on a slope, need very little maintenance and would multiply like crazy over the years. When they are blooming they are spectacular and even when they aren't, the leaves are pretty. Here is a link that might be useful: Virginia Forum

Muscovy, I believe that others have struggled with balled, soggy blooms, but I have not had much trouble--even in Portland, OR. I currently have a young Armide/Plantier and have grown Madame in the past as well. I cut off a few blooms here and there due to browning from rain. Madame's petals must be thick enough to shed most of what rain we receive at her bloom time. The same is true for me of other fluffy albas. Teas, on the other hand, ick! Carol in the Wetlands

It looks like you don't have enough corn for good pollination. My understanding is that you need at least 4' x 4' of corn for decent pollination. Do you have a plan on how you will get to the plantings in the back for care & harvesting? I think you might want to consider some stepping stones at least. Consider also that your plants will bush out - when we grew cukes & beans on a trellis in a bed 2 feet from the fence they bushed out so much there wasn't much room to get behind them. Also, I have never grown okra, but I've heard the plant can be irritating to the skin. I think it gets pretty big, too. You might think about putting it together & somewhere you won't have to come into contact with it until you want to. Why are you mixing things up? Are you trying to avoid cross pollinating varieties, or going for aesthetics? Or is it for another reason? I would consider putting same plants together because they will have the same needs & you can more easily deal with them as a group. Beans are great & can be very productive. You could substitute them for the corn along the back. Perhaps you could do a block of a short variety of corn (so it doesn't shade other things too much) if you move things around a bit. I am not familiar with your growing area, so I'm not sure what else to add. I see you have cukes growing on the fence, but you have a line of them down into the bed. Will those get a trellis, or are you putting bush varieties in front? Definitely (IMO) put as much organic matter into your soil as you can. We have terrible soil here (sand), but my small gardens are looking lush. We found a local coffee shop that gives us bags of their compostable material regularly. We add that straight to the garden beds (coffee grounds, veggie scraps, egg shells) with some manure (we use quail because it is inexpensive & convenient). Also, we added in some peat moss & vermiculite the first couple of times we were turning over the beds. Hopefully someone with more expertise will give you some good tips. Best of luck!

I've found that having lots of cherry toms, any cherry toms, will distract me really well from the toms I lack. When you have extremely limited ground room for plants, several cherry varieties (and others!) can grow upward very strongly. That's an awkward sentence but indeterminate plants like that might help when you're cramped for space. Three plants is cramped. if I assume you're talking about ground space, can you maybe also try a few tote bags or five gallon buckets?