everything I've planted is in harvest stage about now, so I thought that now would be a good time to share this:
Varieties 2006

Gold of Bacau pole beans--A+
- a romano wax with tender pods and full flavor. I've been serving them with butter, a squeeze of lemon, and dried basil & oregano.

Cylindra beets--B+
Grow gigantic by august and aren't tough. Taste is average, but yields are good from this variety. No great shakes really.

Roma VF tomatoes--C
Bland in comparison to Beefsteak and larger plums, but cook well and are decent in salads. Susceptible to blights, and are very short plants.

America Spinach-- A-
Tender with no stringy fiber, but bolts easily and was dying of flea beetle attacks. Superb flavor, absolutely delicious.

Ruby Ruffles lettuce--A
Grew very large & slower to bolt. A looseleaf.

Jung's Caesar salad mix- A
One trial packet overwhelmed me with lettuce, but the flavor was mild, not in any way bitter.

Fino Verde Compatto basil--A+
This basil is the best I've tasted- strong basil flavor, with a hint of cloves and a mint undertone. It grows into a small-leafed bush about a foot tall, good producer.

Nutri-Bud Broccoli--?
Very full flavor, but for some reson, all but two heads rotted from the bottom up. I believe it is the wet, cool weather that brought that on.

Early Silverline melon-B
Flavor is good, sweet in the center but gets sour towards the rind at full-slip stage. seed cavity has syrup-like juice with a flavor hinting of banana & honeydew, but only very slightly. Didn't produce very much, maybe two melons per plant. I'll trellis them next year.

Sugar Baby & Yellow Baby watermelon- A
Just a pink watermelon, with normal flavor. Sweet and seedy, much better than seedless store melons. Yellow baby was equally delicious & full-flavored.

Cherokee Purple tomato--A+
Smoky, earthy, and acidic, this tomato is the best I have ever tasted; tomato ambrosia. Worth protecting from frost. The only problem is they are very late in coming.

Southern Giant Curled Mustard greens-A
Tough cooked, but delicous on a sandwich instead of mustard.

Husky Gold Cherry Tomato--B
Average cherry, on the tomatoey side, with full flavor. Average producer and all around good.

Contender bush beans-- A+
Super productive and delicious fresh flavor. I highly recommend it.

That's what I could fit, Just about a row of each with crop rotation... a good season.
What did everyone else grow?

My best new varieties this year are:

Friariello Peppers : Highly productive, tasty, disease free, easy to grow and undemanding.
I wish all veggies were like them. A

Slenderette Green Beans : The absolute best tasting beans I ever tried! I thought Contender and Provider were good, but Slenderette is even better. The plants are strong and productive, and they don't seem to have any intention to quit. A+

Garlic: Lots of different hardneck varieties, and they all did well. A

Copra Onions : Nice plants, no disease and good yield. I started those from seeds. A

Black Cherry Tomato : The best of all my tomatoes this year. Perfect balance sweet/acidic, nice texture, no disease and highly productive.
I will grow it forever. A

Cherokee purple tomato - yummy, but I wasted a BUNCH of them, because I didn't remember which plants were which, and the color never looked "right" to me. By the time I realised/remembered what they were, a bunch had rotted! lol.

Wow! Wonderful subject!

I'm so happy with going Italian! I will definitely raise romano pole beans again. I like a bean that can be picked really late Aug and Sept, hopefully Oct.

San Marzanos, and Costuloto Genovese tomatoes are still producing and they cook down into a sauce that is to die for! The tomatoes cook down into a very, very bright red sauce. Bright red has to be screaming Vitamins, anti oxyidants.

Juliet tomatoes... Mine are getting so big that I am using them for salsa and tomato sauce and they are very bright red which I like.

For peppers all year long... I'm praising the Italian Frying peppers and Cowhorns(bullhorns).

For hot peppers for spiking up Tex-Mex food... A cayenne and Serrano in a pot gives plenty of heat for my house as well as Aji Limos.. Very productive in Pots! (I put things in pots so I can bring them into the screened in porch and protect them from the WILD GOATS also known as DEER!

As for corn... Golden Bantam produced, but I didn't like the flavor. I think I will just grow beans in the "Walnut Garden" next year.

Interesting read. Only one worth mentioning:
Cheddar Cauliflower A-
Slightly bitter raw. The 7" dia. head was small, but since I never actually got cauliflower to make a head before, I'm pleased. The head is yellow-orange, providing good beta-carotenes. Looks very cool.
Ria

I tried lemon apple cukes for the first time this year, and love them. Definitely will repeat next year and following years - very productive, nice mild taste, and I can eat the peel as well (can't eat the peel of the cylindrical green cukes that I have grown previously). Also a good conversation starter for one's neighbours (mine didn't believe it was a cuke!).