We put pumpkins in and let the neighbor kids raid the patch during the first week of October. Also, squash, tomatoes, and a half-hearted attempt at watermelons.

Year round we do herbs, I can't imagine a meal without fresh herbs!

Years ago before I had the good sense to leave Texas I put in a pepper garden - Jalapenos, Serrano, and Habaneros. In keeping with my black-thumb-of-death gardening practices I put 3x as many seeds in as I should have. They all came in, grew like weeds, and I swear the Serrano and the Jalapenos cross-polinated to form a pepper nearly as hot as the Habaneros.