Which varieties / veggies will you repeat and which will you not

Ruby Queen for red beets, and Golden for the yellow ones. Sweet and productive!

Chinese Red Noodle Bean - This is my second year growing them and they are awesome. Super flavor, very tender, easy to see and pick, healthy plants and just as plentiful in beans as you please.

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Callie, I have always planted my pumpkins in my corn. By the time they are starting to vine the corn is forming a canopy and the weeds aren't a problem. Unfortunately I only got two pumpkins this year!!!

This was my first year trying heirloom tomatoes and here's what happened:
Cherokee Purple produced well but were all cracked and mushy with little taste. I won't bother with them again.
Hazelfield Farm Red were smaller than I like but tasted good but not good enough to plant again.
Wisconsin 55 had good taste but did not produce many at all so I won't be planting it again either.
Tommy Toes cherry tomato were larger than I expected and delicious, but they no sooner got ripe and they cracked. It was fruit fly city in my kitchen this year because of that. They've all but quit producing for the season too, so I won't be planting them again.

I still plan to experiment with more heirloom varieties next year but not sure which ones yet. Hopefully I'll get some ideas from this thread. And I will plant my favorite hybrid, Celebrity, and my husband's favorite hybrid, Early Girl, and our favorite cherry tomato, Sweet Million, to be sure we have some tomatoes in case the new ones don't work out.

As for green beans, we tried Turkey Craw pole beans that are just now beginning to form beans. That's just way too long to wait for a few beans.
I also planted Tendergreen bush beans which produced like crazy. If you harvest them young, they are delicious. But they get awfully fibrous if you wait.
I've been hearing a lot of good things about the Rattlesnake variety of pole beans so I plan to plant those next year. I really do want to find a good stringless pole bean variety because my back just can't stand bending over to harvest the bush beans anymore.

I also tried a yellow and a white patty pan squash this year. Cute little buggars but not enough taste to suit me. I'm going back to the yellow crookneck variety next year.

That's about it for me these days. I've cut waaaaay back on gardening because of arthritis. I now buy from a farmer's market or barter with a neighbor for other veggies and fruits.

Okay, now I want to see pictures of your Pineapple tomatoes. The pineapple was the most prolific heirloom tomato in my garden this year and while the taste isn't the best I've ever had we did enjoy them -- especially slow cooked in a tortilla soup with ground turkey, cilantro, peppers, onion, garlic, etc. Ours were really meaty, definitely not like a waterballoon. And I thought they were really pretty. Enormous, bright/light yellow with pretty red speckling/striping on the blossom end. It's funny how we each get such different results with the same variety of plant.

I bought a couple greens mixes this year and put them in the same bed and there was something really, really nutty smelling in there that was so overpowering. It ruined all of my salads this year. I never did identify what, exactly, it was so I'll just not be buying any of those mixes again. I think I'll stick to our old standbys; spinach, plus red green leaf lettuce.

The radishes I planted this year did really well, but I can't remember for the life of me what variety they were.

If you like the pink tomatoes I would give the Arkansas Travler a try. We love them, they are high producers of a nice medium sized pink tomato. We also grow Amish paste, Golden Jubilees, and Purple Russians every year. A new one that we really like is the Pantano Romanesco, it's a really meaty big red tomato.

I can't think of anything we won't bother with next year, we have pretty well established what works for us here now and while every year we usually have something that has a bad time for one reason or another we usually give everything a couple of chances.

You can pick all your tomatos and let them ripen in the house. That's what we have to do up here in Alberta. We only have about a 90 day growing season between frosts so in order for the tomatos to ripen on the vine they need to be blooming or set fruit before we transplant them out into the garden.

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I need to plant less. Once the summer heat starts, my HVAC work is too busy to keep up. I'll stop corn, broccoli, melons. More cucumbers and squash. More early spring crops. Maybe 1/3 of the garden in alfalfa or oats.

I liked using the garden surplus to feed the chickens. I'll keep doing too many tomatoes and sunflowers, just for the chickens.

Bulls Blood beets always perform well for us.....and did again this year even without rain of significance since June. Can't say anything for the tomato crop as it has been in the 90's so long that they just didn't set many blossoms although the plants were well mulched and healthy green. What we did get were cooked on the vine...if you ate one in the garden it was just like eating a stewed tomato!!!! My Lazy Woman Beans were fabulous until the drought just dried them up overnite,literally. Will try them again though. My winter squash just keep limping along but, as usual, the Ambrosia canteloup never fail. They love the heat. Also had an heirloom type zucchini that has produced well--I know, they are easy to grow but not here where we battle squash bugs every year and they usually win.
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I have planted butternut squash for 3 years in a row and this is the first year it has done well (slow learner) I have squash to last the rest of the year from just 5 hills.

I did hybrid tomatoes this year and admit I am hooked. I have a couple kinds of heirloom saved but I understand the draw of the hybrids.

My uncle sent me seeds for a Chinese squash that grows long and thin, I didn't get much off it, but it sets fruit late so I don't have to deal with it until the other squashes are about done so I may try it again next year.

Did a yellow watermelon hybrid this year and it was not sweet at all, I will go back to my trustworthy rattlesnake type next year

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Japanese Long, or Oriental Long are always my cucumbers of choice. Very prolific, very small seeds, and there don't seem to be any pests that bother them. I always plant Arkansas Traveler tomatoes, and will try other varieties from year to year. The Ark is a perennial favorite, though. Lazy Wife pole beans are lovely; prolific, good flavor, and always nice, long, straight pods.