In addition to those above, and according to my notes from when I lived in OH: larkspur - from seeds cosmos - from seeds nigella (love in a mist) - from seeds mirabilis jalapa (4'o'clocks) - from seeds hyacinth bean vine - from seeds torenia - bought nemesia - bought alternanthera - bought strobilanthes (persian shield) - bought/overwintered streptocarpella - bought/overwintered ageratum - bought bacopa - bought sweet potato vines - usually bought sunflowers! - from seeds! violas - johnny jump-ups, too late this year, but great for planting as soon as you can dig in the frozen tundra

Actually, pretty much most everything. After 3 or 4 years of either too cold, too dry, too wet, too many bugs I declared to my garden "One last chance before you all become shrubbery!" They responded, Actually, I decided my soil needed perking up. I added composted cow manure and pelleted bloom food wherever I could together with some garden lime. Yes, I know I could make my own compost, I learned how at my mother's knee, but I just don't feel like it, and DH just won't clear out the spot I wanted for it either. Mama also said I should dump the ashes from my fireplace out in the garden too, but I'm too lazy, I'd rather let them sit down there in that pit made especially for them down in the basement. Someday I'll have a bunch of ashes and I'll do it then. I rather wish spring hadn't been so cool and damp again. With a nice warm May and September I can get three bloomings from my Shastas. Number one just finished, I'm hoping for number two. My polyantha roses are doing great. I'm thinking more and more that I may re-do the back garden with them, since I need to dig up and replenish the rest of the soil back there anyway.

I think everything on your list has the potential to grow well here, although raspberries can be very particular about their soil and moisture and also about how much heat they'll tolerate. Other than the special pH needs of the blueberries which you already know about, everything on your list should grow just fine as long as it is planted into well-prepared soil at the proper time. In case you've never planted garlic before, it normally is planted in the fall here. Carrots are generally easy, but I believe I get a better-tasting crop in the fall than in the spring. Heat can adversely affect the flavor and texture of carrots, making them tough and bitter. In the spring, we often go from "too cold" to "insanely hot" so fast that sometimes the carrots have barely germinated and then suddenly the temperatures are warmer than the optimal temps for growing carrots. Also, carrots germinate very slowly in cold soil and very quickly in warm soil so it is a lot easier to start them in late summer than in mid-winter. I suspect Carol's carrot issues have to do with her soil staying so wet, but that's just a guess. With almost every squash, you'll have to fight squash vine borers and squash bugs with only a few exceptions and those are mostly winter squash. With cucumbers, they'll grow and produce very well as long as you can keep the cucumber beetles from giving them bacterial diseases that quickly kill them. There are many wonderful vining types in various sizes, shapes and colors. Not all cucumbers are green. Some years you'll get great yields from some fruits and veggies and other years you won't. It all evens out though.

I've grown cucamelon. It does take up the trellis space. But it's kind of the notion that cherry tomatoes are small plants because the fruits are small- and a lot of cherry tomato plants are huge! If you already know you like eating the fruits, then go ahead and plant a few next year. You don't have to plant a ton of plants, but you can plant a few to see how you like growing them for yourself. Trellising standard vining cucumbers does not need to take up much space- I've done a few plants in pots all the way up to a wall of the things in the garden one summer. If you trellis right, you can actually get more plants/grow out of a trellised cuke of a good variety than some of the bush varieties. If you prefer raw cukes... what do you like? Standard ones from the store, seedless or english ones? Tender little Persians? Small ones, big ones.. round ones? Classic cucumber taste? Like the peel on and thus prefer a thin skin, or you peel them so that don't matter much?