Blondkopfchen. It's a little yellow cherry with a pointed end. It's very thin-skinned. It's one of our favorites, it's usually the first tomato that fruits in our garden, it also seems to crop forever, not only is it among the first to crop, it's always the last cropper and it isn't stopped until knocked off by frost. And it's also the cherry tomato I have the worst time spelling, lol.

I garden not far from NHBabs, the colder edge of zone 5. Last night we had a Confection kabocha squash from Johnny's. It was so sweet! Unfortunately, Johnny's is replacing it with a "better" variety. I also like Delicata for an easy winter squash for 2 people. I don't care too much for the butternut varieties except there's a Baker's Creek Long neck butternut that was an excellent keeper. Didn't have the great flavor of Confection but I would grow it again. Favorite zucchini is Costata Romanesco, a striped variety. Productive and great flavor. Any swiss chard after it gets cold in the fall. We liked Provider Bush green beans until I started growing the filet varieties. Good production. I agree with Sugar Snap. They might get 7' tall and production is great. I've tried other varieties and don't get the same production. Tyee spinach planted as early as possible. Gilfeather Turnip, nice flavor but I think it's really a white rutabaga. Decided I like Hakurei turnips. Was surprised that they grew very well even though I hadn't thinned them probably. I had clusters of turnips. I really liked Fedco's Fingerling sampler except for the blue potatoes. I thought our grandchildren would love them but we can't get past the blue color. And this is supposed to be a very nutritious variety! Carmen for a frying pepper that usually turns red.

I grow in a different situation that you. I have a raised bed garden but it is over limestone marl. I have no soil to speak of, so I do not want to say anything about technical stuff. I have grown armenian cucumber. It likes it hot. Have a hard time getting it to fruit and hold onto its fruit. I give it fertilizer to encourage flowering. That has helped. I use the long Chinese cucumber (whose name I forgot) because it performs well in heat and humidity. Rat tailed radish is a cool weather plant. I really like it. grows when pleas grow.It is Easy. I grew hairy vetch and australian pea as a green manure all last winter. It really improved my soil. I think now would be a good time top plant it , but not any later. They die off in the heat. Papalo: I grow it in a pot. It is a prolific seeder. It might become a weedy weed in a garden if not looked after. I was always dead heading it and throwing seeds in the pot. Seeds are the kind that blow away. I always had many sprouts. I like the flavor when it is young better than when it matures. Interesting flavor. I like it but my husband thinks it taste like soap. Calendula is another cool season plant. It would have made it through this winter. I would plant it now. I have not grown your variety of amaranth but they are all easy and seed themselves. I see them coming up in March. Malabar spinach: keep it wet. It might like a heavier soil than mine. It might prefer your clay soil.. Tatume squash... Delicious. It needs a good structure for climbing. Watch out for squash bugs of both kinds. I don't remember it being overly susceptible to the vine bore but man did it succumb to the army of squash bugs one year. I have stepped back from squash because I lost the battle bad one year and I am letting them go elsewhere. Bee balm: I collected wild and scattered seed in the fall and I have had it ever since.I use it as a wildflower. good luck on the white sage (Salvia alpiana). It really does not like heavy soil or our humidity. I have killed it in a very calcarious draining limestone soil in the Hillcountry three times. Lemon grass, I had a huge clump in Austin in a heavy clay soil that was amended , but I dies during the winter where I am now due to cold. I would always take insurance clumps and protect in the winter. Basil, I have some thai basel that has lived through this winter, but so has my peppers.. first time. I plant in spring and it is easy. all basils are easy. spinach : I grow in the winter. Peas : better have them in the ground now. The spring will probably be on us quick. I usually plant my peas in January and I protect them in the frosts, but they are still small and easy to pile the mulch on them. I use Rattlesnake beans and they are good in our heat and can deal with some dryness. Feverfew grows wild, but I have a native variety in my rock scree. I have not grown your specific varieties of many of these plants but similar plants. I follow the Agrilife schedule for Travis county and all seems to usually grow fine unless I run out of water or over ridden by bugs. As many squashes that you have, you will be spending a lot of time looking for squash bugs and squash vine bores. Some people grow them on the ground so they can keep them covered with a row cloth till they start flowering. I also keep a thing of soapy water around to kill any squash bugs and harlequin bugs. I prefer to use hardwood saw dust and I stay away from pine. I live and work in a woodshed. We toss the pine and other stuff out on the front field. I will be using cowpeas as a green manure this summer if we have enough rain. I do like the young pods as a green bean substitute. I do not water in the summer. I normally walk away from my garden and let things go and go for a swim. It looks like you have a large amount of plants. good luck and good growing.

KatieC, I might have agreed about our similar growing conditions until you said last year was bad for you... last year was the best gardening year EVER here! But I'm with you 100% on going with varieties I know will grow well (and mature) in my conditions!!! You should have great luck with King of the North! but I do think the strain isn't completely stable, and it produces many peppers that aren't bell shape.... I think I grew around 8 plants of KotN last year and at least 3 plants produced non-bells. (ETA: I bought that seed from High Mowing Seeds - Organic). Many years ago I did lots of seed-trading on GW and tried many different varieties of tomatoes and peppers like Jimmy Nardello's and Marconi-- but I got so many dud seeds that didn't even germinate, or they were incorrect varieties, so I gave up on trading with strangers. lol! Way back then I was looking for a specific and rare pepper from Italy and I found a guy there to trade with... he sent some fantastic Italian and Spanish pepper seed varieties, including paprikas, but my growing season wasn't quite long enough to get good production. There's one he sent that I do continue to grow, he called it LaCrime di Christo... tiny and VERY HOT! Otherwise, the peppers I grow every year are things like Portugal Long Hots, Hungarian Hot Wax, Balloon Peppers, Anaheims, an old unknown Italian sweet variety that's very early (not bell), etc. I've tried Poblanos a few times but my growing season isn't long enough. :(