Sweet corn. Takes up too much space and water. And I can get them 8 for a dollar at a local stand if I want corn.

Garlic. I grew 50 sq ft of garic one year. Hard necks, soft necks and every type I found. I don't why I did that, but I wanted to see. I can get a bag of garlic at Costo, for something cheap (cheaper than my seed cloves per pound). Sure, the garlic was good. Couldn't give away enough, use enough so it went to waste. I had at least a bushel. Never again.

Peaches. Peach trees get every frigging disease out there. I don't have the personality or interest to stop my life and spray for all the afflictions the gods gave peaches and nectarines at the right time. Then it rains, or blooms, and a freeze, or snow. Forget it.

Strawberries. It doesn't take much for strawberries to get whacked by slugs , birds, fungus. After 7 years of getting pissed off, I pulled them out. I can buy a flat 20 miles away at a stand for $12. If I feel like it.

A slew of tomato varieties and snapbeans. I try new ones every year, but I have my favorites, which go in every year.

Shelling beans and peas. PITA. The dried ones are the biggest waste of time. After getting a measly 2# of mung beans one year, no more of that for me. I can buy them too cheap (I grow my own bean sprouts). And no. I am not going to sit on my porch and shell peas and turtle beans. I did enough as a kid and hate it.

Mushrooms. I bought a bunch of spawn (wrong word), and after the drilling in wood and all the time, maybe got my money back, but not my time.

Artichokes are a PITA, but I still have 30 plants. I like artichokes, have had them for 20 years, but they are going this winter to the burn pile.

This is too long. If you ask what I think is worth it: My Belgian fences of apples. plums apriums, pluots. I tore out my table grapes, kept the wine grapes and now grow hops. I love growing and eating many different types of potaotes, but storage is a problem for me for some types and now that Dursban and Diazonon are now gone wire worms have almost got me ready to quit (but I won't because too, too good those home grown potatoes). As far as herbs go, parsley, fennel, dill, cilantro always reseed, so always there. I use rosemary, thyme, lavendar and sage as ornamentals (as well as rhubarb), so easy and always. Onions and leeks are so friggen easy. They have their own 200 sq.ft and I go get them when I want them, and let the rest reseed (thinning takes time). I always have green onions, and I put the bulby ones I know I can use before they rot in storage. Winter squash is the absolute best for winter storage. I eat butternuts until April.

There is more, but my water is boiling and hafta go.