I'm going to try a lot more peas, since I seem to have better luck with them than corn.

I'm going to try beets, carrots, lettuce and greens that are new to me... What are you trying as a new veggie?

1.'Uncle David's Dakota Squash'
2.Two heirloom tomatoes from Walleye,'Prudens Purple', and 'LadyII' tomato from Johnny's
3.Rutabagas
4.Purple pole beans 'Trionofetto' (sp?)
5.'Bolero' carrots
6.four new kinds of lettuce
7.'pencil pod' bush yellow beans
8.new herbs and new flowers! (a lot of new flowers,lol)

I'm going to try my hand at saving seed of carrots. I always try 3 to 5 new heirloom tomato cultivars each year. See how I did saving pole beans from last year.

I have started a lot more annual flowers because I am going to have a garden bed at church this year. It's exciting. Maybe I'll try to sneak a squash in there too to see if the SVBers are there too.

In the veggie garden blue soup peas, Grandpa Admire's Lettuce, Spinach Monopa, numerous tomatoes which I listed in the tomato thread.

Tom the carrots have wonderful flowers, they could go in the ornamental garden really.

Franeli I love the pencil pod beans and the purple pole beans. Prudents Purple is a good tomato too, but I think I remember it is a bit late.

Rabbity I hear you on the corn thing. I do have some free seed so I may plant it, but it never does as well as it should for the amount of space it takes up in a small garden. Though I do like snacking on it raw while I am in the garden!

Ellen

Luffa Gourds, Calendula, Cosmos, interplanting Sunflowers with cukes and squash, lettuce, cabbage, carrots (half-longs), rat-tail radishes. Basically about half of my garden.

Watermelon, cantelope, corn, and several new gourds. I'll be putting up a big trellis unit to grow gourds on and to act as a yard screen.

I'm also making a seed starting unit for indoors this year and I'll be making some hoop tunnels for the garden. I'm also making a coldframe and putting in soaker and drip irrigation. Big improvement year for me!!

New For Me:

Luffa gourds

black krim tomato

Jacobs cattle beans: (for dried beans)

Spinach: (only like Del Monte spinach out of can) but seeds are free so I'm trying it.

Moon and Stars Watermellom now that is a plant I could use a lot of opinions about) Any words good or bad, would be greatly appreciated!

AND Cilantro: (which I have read, tastes like soap!) haha

Thanks for the question RABBIT!

New for me will be zucchini and carrots. I hope they do well...I'm so excited about eating these out of my garden, I could burst

New varieties is my thing for this year. Also new veggies.

artichokes
uncle david dakota squash also
gilfeather turnip ( rutabagas )
lots of new varieties of hot peppers tomatoes and squash and lettuce.
some oriental veggies.
new eggplant
onions from seeds going now.
My garden will be almost all new.

We are trying a few new varieties of tomatoes, new for us anyways. Mortgage lifter, Amish paste, Grapette, Delicious, Anna Russian, and Caspian Pink.

And we are going to plant a couple of honeyberry bushes. They just looked and sounded so good in the catalog, and seem to be easier to get a havest off of then blueberries. Does anyone grow these???

As mentioned on another thread, I am trying several "new" tomatoes, to try to battle the wilt problem...

Margherita, Sungold, Yellow Pear, San Marzano (I may also try a couple newer ones I saw this morning in Tomato growers Supply-San Marzano Redorta & Classica (both paste-types)...Druzba, Costoluta Genovese, Opalka, Jet Star, Celebrity, Reisentraube.

Gonna try a couple new eggplants & peppers, too...I found the Holy Mole peppers in that catalog, too!

Hey Lisaann, I grew Moon and Stars a few years ago. I got ONE fruit per vine, and some had none, while 'Sugar Baby' gave about 4-5 per vine. They were in ideal conditions too. Tasted great, tho. FYI

This year I'm trying 'Parcel' that I got in exchange from Daisies4u for some Tropicanna tubers, and a beautifully striped purple Malva.

The exciting one is 'Yellow Baby' watermelon. Can't wait to grow that, although it's going to be bugger trying to site it! Same veggies, just different varieties, mostly.

Fingerling potatoes. We've grown regular taters for a long time. Does anybody have any tips for fingerlings?

What are Luffa Gourds and what do you do with them?

Luffas are a natural sponge substitute. They look kind of alien once the skins are off and they're dry.

Most people use them in the shower/bath as an exfoliator sponge. I think they don't dry out well and get moldy and smelly after a bit.