Gardening Plans

One of the ideas I have been toying with myself lately is edible landscaping. We rent a small plot of land in a tiny rural village and our landlord has give us permission for a garden and any “lawn” area is mostly overgrown native grasses anyway so ripping it up and planting beautiful easy to care for plants that give back would not draw us too much notice from the powers that be. I’ve been using this link and this link and this and this one to help me plan. I have several ideas. I want to plant drought resistant, nice looking plants that will provide useful foodstuffs and possibly create butterfly/bee and bird habitat. The butterflies and bees for pollinating my flowering plants and the birds because they are nice to look at.
We live in Zone 2b and our last frost is June sometime which sucks but we do live in a kinda dip and have a micro-climate that creates weather that I could probably handle up to zone 5 hardys with a little bit of work. Our soil tends towards the moist/wet, but that too can be overcome by small landscaping techniques for creating micro site.
I plan to attempt to transplant some raspberry and blueberry bushes as they are native in the area and I’m sure I can find a site for them. I am going to put in a typical vegetable garden and herb garden. Then I plan to plant some wildflowers in random places for my pollinators. I am going to use Roman chamomile and lemon balm as a ground cover, both have edible and medicinal uses. My vegetable garden is planned to be at least 20′x40′ and I plan to build a raised bed in our porch for my less hardy plants dimensions 18′x16″. I would like to try a few apple trees in case we are living here long enough to see them flower.
I will attempt to start everything from seed. It is more economical and easier for your plants to adjust to less than ideal conditions that way. I will start some indoors roughly 3 months prior to last frost to give them time to grow big and strong. Some will be started 8 weeks or so before last frost and some will be started outside.
This year I am trying several varieties of tomatoes including a few heirloom; pumpkins; peppers; and several sensitive herbs, as well as the hardy grow anywhere in any condition type crops like potatoes.
I’m also going to keep several different very sensitive herbs indoors all summer. I have had mixed success with container crops this winter. My tomatoes, peppers, beans and peas did very well, the cucumbers however did not last. Some were eaten by my dog, but others expired through poor conditions.
I am determined to grow crops I want, despite hardiness zones. I will keep you posted on my success.