spaghetti squash. Decent replacement for regular old high carb spaghetti, extremely easy to prepare in a microwave, decently productive, and the picked squash last for months in storage. I think it was December or January when I used up the last of last year's crop.
I'd love to do 'glass gem' corn as well, but the last few crops of corn I've tried, something is coming along and simply buzz-sawing through the crops before the corn ears are more than a few inches in length.
Garlic is a good starter for beginning gardeners, as long as you realize you plant it in the fall, not the spring. Plant it, water it off and on, and pull it up. As to varietal, I prefer Inchelium Red.
I grew my own mustard seed last year, but it was a pita to winnow out the seeds from the pods, so I probably won't be doing that again soon.
We find the 'straight eight' cucumbers work decently for straight eating or use in making relish, although you have to make sure they're well watered all along, or else they turn bitter.
My 'main' crops, year in and out, though, are a wild black raspberry I picked up a starter from out in the woods and got a patch started in my back yard about ten years back, and everbearing strawberries. We did about 60-70 8 oz jars apiece of black raspberry jam and strawberry jam this last year, and thanks to having gotten a food mill, I'll be trying my hand at a seedless jelly of each this coming harvest. The red delicious and golden delicious apples were abundant last year as well, but I didn't have the gear to preserve them last year, so the birds, squirrels, and wasps got most of them. If the weather is good this year, I'll be ready to make apple butter or apple sauce this year.
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