Welcome to Arizona gardening. Its not required but recommended that your tomatoes either get afternoon shade or be protected from the afternoon sun with 50% shade cloth. I'm not sure how many bean plants you will need. I have not been as successful with them as some other members have been. I started a thread about tomatoes in the tomato forum that may be of help to you. The link is below. Peppers grow well here but do better with afternoon shade. From time to time a farmer will stop by and say they grow in Arizona without shade or shade cloth. Farming is different than vegetable gardening though. I drive by some farms on occasion that are not far from my home. Each time I do the temps drop as much as 5-10 degrees, sometimes more at night. A field full of peppers or tomatoes is evaporating massive amounts of water over a large area which drops the temperature and increases relative humidity. In my garden I can have 8 percent relative humidity at 110 degrees with a 15 mile an hour wind speed. At the same time in the farmers field its 99 degrees with 50 percent humidity with a 15 mile an hour wind. That dryer wind in the home garden in full afternoon sun can suck the life out of a plant. My main crops are squash, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and a few melons during the summer. If you click on the photo it will take you to my photobucket page where you can see more pictures. Here is a link that might be useful: What varieties will continue to produce through hot weather?

I have one row of yellow wax (Brittle Wax Beans, my rows are ~20 feet long) and one row of green bush beans (Blue Lake) and a half row of Royal Burgundy beans. I also have 1 teepee of pole beans (Kentucky Wonder) and 1 teepee of asparagus yardlongs. I have beans coming out of my ears! There's just my husband and myself. I'm getting a gallon of beans every few days. I've frozen LOTS and pickled some.

Hi again floral_uk. I live in zone 5 in the US. I have been reading up on sweet peas and I have read that they get pretty scraggly and don't bloom very long at all. But I'm guessing there are many factors that go into that, such as how much sun/water they are getting, what zone it is, etc...pretty much the same as with any plant. Growing vines is all new to me so I will consider this an experiment and hopefully I will learn a few things along the way. I have been wondering if I should start the sweet peas indoors. I just started my Moonflowers and will also be starting morning glories indoors. Thanks very much for all of your help!

Oh, good, Marlene. Thank you so much-I will keep and plant both of them-we are doing it tomorrow morning. :-)