Most of my growing is in raised beds.

I don't have all of my varieties chosen for next year (and if we get our new house, I might only have a couple potted tomatoes this year). Things I do plan on planting are:

Boston pickling cukes - they are a vining variety and very prolific. 2 plants gave us more cukes than we could eat and pickle last year, and take up very little space with a trellis.

Violet podded stringless beans. I always grow these pole beans at the edge of one of my beds. Again, very productive and space-efficient.

Tomatoes:
Kellogg's Breakfast - tasty and productive
Opalka - I plan to grow several of these for canning
Earl's Faux - tasty, and quite early and productive for a beefsteak
Black from Tula - absolutely outstanding flavor
Azoychka - these are quite early and have a great, lemony flavor and color
Black cherry - tastiest cherry tomato I've tried. I might grow sungold as well if I have enough space
Stupice- very early and productive. I'll grow this one in a pot in the greenhouse and hopefully have tomatoes in June.

Eggplant:
Rosa Bianca - non bitter, few seeds, subtle, slightly nutty, sweet flavor. I love these!
Saved seed from an unknown lavender variety from a friend last fall. Huge fruits, great for lasagna type dishes.

Peppers - I am always conflicted about pepper varieties, because they just don't grow as well up here. For instant, my green chiles had no heat last year. With that said, I'll probably grow:
Big early hybrid
Serrano
Habanero

Other things:

Cheddar cauliflower
Gonzales mini cabbage
Mixed lettuces/greens
Golden and Chiogga beets
Radishes
Carrots
Basil
Leeks
Kale
Sweet corn
Summer squash

Well I'm planting a lot of new stuff. Still looking
for my favorites. What I will plant again next summer
will be Amish Paste tomato, because it has a nice sweet
flavor. Thai green eggplant, it puts out lots of eggplant.
Sungold tomato, will be my second year growing this.
The best cherry I tasted so far, but will also try new
ones. As for cucumbers, never tried bush varieties. My
cucumbers always get yellow spots on leafs. Every
variety I try gets this. So far, my favorite I planted
years ago was a hybrid from Johnny seeds called Tasty
Jade(asian variety). I planted Empress Bush Bean last
year. Still have leftover seeds and they were good, so
will go in garden next year also. Just about everything
else will be new, except for Jalapeno's. Why is it
that hot peppers in my garden, always out produce my
sweet peppers. I don't get it! I wish it was the
opposite.

I love 'Mokum' carrots for tasty summer eating.
My friend in Georgia had great success with these carrots last year.
I also plan to plant more 'Nelson' and 'Bolero' carrots for long storage.

Hi Donna

I have a small garden and live in zone 9b Florida. Last season, I had a good production from Costata Romanesco

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And my friend recommended Butterstick zucchini, which was also good

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On the cucumbers, I grew a different kinds, but the best was an Asian variety that I found the seeds in the oriental market. And I trellis, it was productive and took the heat, bitter free and tasty. I also like the Metki painted serpent used as cucumber. On the left are the 3 asian cucumbers, the light colored one at the right is the metki

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Silvia

Although we are getting snow now, I too am itching to grow something.
Green beans: Contender, They come on a week early
Green Beans: Blue Lake, Dad bought a 5# bag three years ago
Pole Beans: Rattlesnake, Girlfriend likes to eat raw
Pole Beans: Fortex, They are tasty
Tomatoe: Rutgers, Best I ever ate
Muskmelon: Lil Sweetie, I like the single serving
Muskmelom: Ambrosia, Family favorite
Cucumber: Burpless, Leftover seeds
Peppers: Sweet Mixed Colors,
Peppers: Sante Fe Grande, Not very hot
Onions: Candy, Very Sweet
Potatoe: Red Pontiac, They are cheap at a local farm supply
Asparagus: Jersey Supreme, Be first Year to harvest

My garden is about 36 X 120

Beans: Blue Jay
Beets: Albino, Golden, Chioggia, Bull's blood
Broccoli: Romanesco
Carrots: Dragon carrots, Atomic red
Greens: Persian cress, Strawberry spinach
Peas: Blue Pod Capuchin
Peppers: Tolli's Sweet Italian
Squash: White bush patty pan, Potimarron, Musquee de Provence, Buttercup, Vegetable Spaghetti - yes, i'm very much a squash lover
Tomatoes: Ceylon, Brown cherry, Yellow Perfection, White queen
Watermelon: Cream of Saskatchewan

I'm concentrating on the veg that I can't find around here. I'm counting on my parents to supply the potatoes, rhubarb and other more common things since they always have extras.

I'm hoping my new greenhouse will be in place in a month or so. I want to try growing from seed this year. We have a brand new organic seed store that moved in last fall! I might be in BIG trouble! LOL
About the only thing I'm stuck on are purple cheroke and sungold tomatoes. The rest I'll just kind of go with the flow and see what is recommended for this area.

Tomatoes that have proven themselves over the years:
Celebrity (yield check and very dependable producer that does not become bland in my garden)
Viva Italia (canning; to combine with Celebrity)
Old German (the best tasting tomato I have ever tried and a real treat on a burger)
Sweet Million (cause tasty cherry tomatoes beat carrot sticks for lunch by a long shot)
Stupice (very early and a heat-setter in my garden, which methinks is a very unusual combination)
Experimental tomatoes:
Black from Tula
Rio Grande (heat-setter paste)
Dr. Carolyn
Big Raspberry (looks so darn pretty)
Mexico (same as Big Raspberry)
Costoluto Genovese (same as Big Raspberry)
Giant Belgium (got a free seed from the supplier)
Solar Set (heat-setter)
Solar Fire (heat-setter)
Florida 91 (heat-setter)

I'm planing close to 20 tomato bushes, which is twice what I usually grow, but 2009 was a very bad for tomatoes; production in the spring was only half of typical and fall season went bust despite regular pest control.

This year I'm not planning on spring-season summer squashes; will grow squashes in a community garden that I'm organizing, but that's another long story.

Peppers:
proven over the years:
Tolli's Sweet (the best tasting pepper ever)
A few experimental bell pepper hybrids

Eggplant:
Rosa Bianca (I grew it in the past and it tasted great)
Pingtung Long (it became bitter last year; want to know whether that was an anomaly)
Antigua (new variety for testing and so darn beautiful)

Watermelon: Orangeglo (prolific and very tasty)
Melon: Noir des Carnes (very productive and tastes terrific; the best of French melons in my garden)
Yard-Long beans: I don't remember the specific variety, but they extremely productive in the summer and they taste even better than bush beans.
Sword beans: a friend introduced me to those and I'm amazed at tenderness of their pods
Snake gourd: summer alternative to squash; I grew angled gourds this year and they tasted great, but preparation was fussy; I'm looking for something I don't have to peel, the lazy cook that I am.

Been out of town....Thanks to you all for these great ideas. I'm going to try several of these suggestions, especially the Romanesco and Butterstick squash, the (TX) melons, and several of the cool sounding beans.

Last year was my first vegetable garden in a decade or more. I grew four or five tomato varieties, and of those, I will repeat Rutgers and Celebrity.

Roper, I gave my pepper bed a good manuring this spring and finally pulled out the TWO bell peppers I planted because I had picked and frozen so many! Must be the manure...

Tomatoes: Jaune Flamme, Prudens Purp., Cherokee Purp., & San Marzano
Cukes: Marketmore 76 ?
Beans: Maxibel & ?
Dry Beans: Maine Yellow Eye or Cranberry
Peas: Tall Telephone & an earlier variety
Soup Peas: Blue Podded Capucjiner
Squash: Waltham Butternut & Delicata
Peppers: Cubanelle
Chard: Fordhook, Bright lights & rhubarb
Potatoes: Kennebec & Yukon Gold
Garlic: several hardneck varieties
Onions: 1 red & 1 yellow variety

Additional items I hope to add:
Spinach
Kale
Blueberries
Autumn Raspberries
Rhubarb
2 apple trees
2 pear trees

failedslacker: Where are you finding blue podded capucjiner peas? I want to grow a crop for myself, and have enough for an elderly Dutch man in town who loves that variety.

I feel like a kid in a candy store with all of the catalogs. But I only have a 14 x 4 foot bed, so I can't fit it all!

Tomatoes: I want a good blend of paste tomatoes and good tasting medium tomatoes. I'm trying heirloom for the first time this year.
I've decided on these for sure from Golden Harvest:
-Golden Egg
-Amish Paste
-Moskvich
And debating on these:
-Japanese Black Trifele
-Marianna's Peace
-Pop-Ins
-Purple Calabash (with a slight wine taste)

Other:
-Rosa Bianca Eggplant
-Yukon Gold Potatoes
-Red Pontiac Potatoes
-Basil, Oregano, Cilantro
-Sugar snap peas
-Cucumbers
-Strawberries (I planted them last year and didn't get fruit, later finding out they have to sit for a year before producing good fruit). - Do I have to do anything else special? The plants are still sitting in my raised bed with green/brown leaves because the winter doesn't freeze here. Do I cut the leaves off before spring?

Here is a link that might be useful: Golden Harvest Heriloom Tomatoes

I just started for the first time last spring with a raised bed 4x8 and stuffed WAY to many plants, needless to say they didn`t really produce plus I bought dirt from the local big box stores and I think it must have been devoid of everything, but with research and another 4x8 bed and a 2x8 bed running along the fence for vines, I might get more than 2 bell peppers and a handfull of cherry tomatoes I didn`t even have enough to make one bowl of salsa,:o( But I am not giving up.
This year
Jersey supreme asparagus In a dedicated bed yet to be built 3x25 for 20ish 2 year roots
Henderson bush lima beans
Twilight Hybrid Eggplant
Chives
Dill
Lavender
Evergreen Bunching onions
Mulato Isleno Poblano Pepper
Black Berry bushes
Fig tree
Pomagranate tree
Brandywine Red Tomato
Chadwick Cherry Tomato
Arkansas Traveler Tomato
and anything else I can.
You think I might be overdoing it?lol