Here's what I have remaining: FLOWERS * Amaranthus Cruentus "Oeschberg" * Aster Frikartii "Monch" * Celosia (2006 seed) * Cephalophora Aromatica * Chicory * Cleome Serrulata "Rocky Mountain Bee Plant" * Cockscomb * Coreopsis Lanceolata * Cosmos Dazzler * Dimorphotheca Sinuata "African Daisy Mix" * Gilia Tricolor "Bird's Eyes" * Gloriosa Daisy * Godetia * Hesperis Matronalis "Dames Rocket" * Lavatera Tall Pink * Linaria Maroccana "Snapdragon Northern Lights" * Malva Windsor Castle * Marigold Colossus * Marigold orange * Painted Daisy * Papaver Rhoeas "Shirley Poppy Mix" * Phacelia Campanularia "California Bluebells" * Red Corn Poppy * Rudbeckia Hirta "black-eyed daisy" * Shasta Daisy "Alaska" * Siberian Wallflower HERBS/VEGETABLES * Pepper California Wonder * Pepper Cayenne * Pepper Dark Orange Large Habanero * Pepper Extra Large Orange Habanero * Pepper Hungarian Hot Wax * Pepper Jalapeno * Pepper Jalapeno Early * Pepper Orange Habanero * Pepper Serrano * Pepper Sweet Banana * Pepper Unknown Hot * Spinach Mustard * Tomato Ace 55 * Tomato Beefsteak * Tomato Black Krim * Tomato Brandywine * Tomato Brandywine Red * Tomato Brandywine Sudduth * Tomato Break O Day * Tomato Campbells 1327 * Tomato Cherokee Purple * Tomato Galinas Yellow Cherry * Tomato Gardener's Delight * Tomato Hawaiian Red Currant * Tomato Isis Candy * Tomato Kellogg's Breakfast * Tomato Large Red Cherry * Tomato Matt's Wild Cherry * Tomato Moneymaker * Tomato Nepal * Tomato Nyagous * Tomato Oxheart * Tomato Ponderosa Pink * Tomato Roma * Tomato Snow White * Tomato Ultra Girl * Tomato Yellow Cherry * Tomato Yellow Grape * Tomato Yellow Pear

ButterFly: I too have an interest in history and gardening, which is why I created The Heirloom Orchardist. So here I shamelessly suggest you check it out. The site's new, and we haven't touched on heirloom veggies yet. It's really about 18th and 19th century farming and gardening, although we're using heirloom fruit culture as our launch topic. Please critique. Here is a link that might be useful: The Heirloom Orchardist

It seems really unnatural for me to have stayed out of this thread. Some of you may remember that when I showed up here about 5 or 6 years ago, I was all about favorites! Still, the original poster asked about "our area" and specifically, Salt Lake. I don't garden in Utah and since most of the gardeners on this forum live in Colorado, that seemed to be the "our area" that was closest - certainly, eastern Colorado is closer to Utah than the ID/WA border up here on the 48th parallel. Maybe I have something to contribute here and really, I think that everyone gardening in or near the mountains of western North America may. (or like Wally, have gardened there in the past.) BTW - Xaroline in Calgary would spell it "favourite." Yes, Wally, I like beans and corn. Fortunately, Dear Wife and I can agree that tender and sweet are important for corn but we don't agree on beans. I want one with lots of "beany" flavor (flavour ;o). I swear, she wants one that just looks like a bean! Mollycoddling the plants just doesn't seem possible in my gardens. There's too much exposure to the elements. The climate here always goes quickly from too cold for good spring growth of the warm-season crops to too hot and dry for good summer growth of cool-season crops to long hours of darkness with a wide range to daily temperatures as we move into the fall. I am always looking for varieties that can "do their thing" quickly and can just hold their "edge" just a bit as the weather changes. I have one location that is more protected from the wind and there is also a section of it that has a good deal of afternoon shade. I like to grow greens in this garden. Summer Crisp (aka Batavian) lettuce Nevada seems to do especially well but, really, the Butterhead lettuce Nancy does fine and most any lettuce variety gets along well in this environment. Asian greens are a big deal with me. They are quick and easy -- like lettuce, I am not waiting for them to develop a fruit or seed crop. Summerfest Komatsuna was an especially big find for me last fall and I'm really looking forward to growing this tender mustard-type green in the spring. Another tender and especially mild Asian green is Maruba Santoh - tender and mild enuf for salads! Acorn squash seems like a good choice where the maturing of the fruit is problematic. Strangely, I don't like the flavor of acorn squash from my garden - maybe it is a soil problem. Burgess buttercup nearly always comes thru but doesn't keep past Christmas. I just don't think it matures adequately for long-term storage. Last year, I grew Cha Cha Kabocha after a number of tries with other kabocha squash and Cha Cha did real well! Generally, I don't have any trouble with any cherry tomato. For a larger variety, Big Beef and Goliath have done real well for a number of years. And, Rainy's Maltese is a wonderful early heirloom! Maybe we have a little more of a Mediterranean summer than what might be expected . . . an early variety of something-or-other from that part of the world might be worth trying. A Galia melon, Passport, has not failed me over nearly 10 seasons of growing. I can't claim that it is the sweetest or most flavorful but Passport has come thru when my other melons, even those that succeed most years, have failed. Perhaps, I need to spend some time on an Israeli kabbutz and see what besides Galia melons are grown!! (I am also thinking about the mountains of Spain . . . :o) Eggplant? Yeah, if I can keep the potato bugs off them! Eggplant with small fruit always seem to work and I like the long green Asian types but I want to use eggplant in a casserole and that means nice slices so Dusky comes thru for me on that. Still, those green eggplants are less likely to be bitter - AppleGreen gives me a r.o.u.n.d eggplant that isn't real big but makes nice slices. And big slices of sweet onions! Oh yeah, I grow Utah onions! But, maybe I should be more happy with my Walla Walla, eh? I know that Skybird keeps singing the praises of Royal Chantenay but carrots in my soil have real problems with splitting - including that one. The Nantes type do about the best. I grow pretty Brilliant Celeriac, tho'! Well, it isn't pretty - no celery root is gonna be pretty. But, it tastes real good mashed with potatoes! And, for potatoes - I'm coming to understand why Yukon Gold is so popular. There are other choices for spuds, tho'! Corn - mostly just going with an early SE type seems to work. My neighbor keeps talking about Kandy corn but either he grows it and it fails or he just talks about it. Kandy corn just takes too many days, I think. Sugar Buns was real tasty last year but I am still not sure how I'll replace SugarSnow when I finally run out of old seed for that white variety. Bodacious & Ambrosia come thru for me. And finally, green beans: I'm happy to have King's Banquet as an old fashioned climber in my garden. Really, any bush bean does well and I can continue planting succession crops right into July. I like the flavor of Greencrop and Purple Queen but DW goes for Jade. (I don't know if this helps anyone but there are some of my vegetable garden favorites. :o) Steve

I'd like to add a picture of my tomatoes too... I have 12 tomatoes in the ground: opalka, yellow pear, chocolate cherry, sweet 100, cherokee chocolate, kbx, cowlick's brandywine, big zac, box car willie, dr wyche's yellow, omar's lebanese and nar. as you can see, i've placed them in cages... do i still have to provide stakes for them or is the cage enough as a support? if i do have to provide a stake, which variety should i stake, or do i have to stake all of them? it'd be nice to know this early so i could provide the necessary stake support before they become bigger. also, which ones usually goes higher than 5'? i know yellow pear, chocolate cherry and sweet 100 does... how about the others? i only have a 5' cage, do i have to top them off when the time comes? thanks for any advice you can give, i'd greatly appreciate it.