Squash!
Build a strong wooden structure that looks like the framework for a telephone booth. Hang lots of twine in the openings. Plant seeds in good soil, stand back and watch the vines climb! Toward the end of the season, if all goes well, you will have lots of large, beautiful, tasty fruit dangling in mid air. 
Damn you **Welby ** You stole my line.::::kicks at dirt:::::::
How about some no brainer’s for growing: Corn and pumpkins.
You can plant them in the same rows at the same time and when the corn is ready for harvesting, the pumpkins then just take off and finish their growing time. Both are exceptionally easy to grow and low maintenence.
Onions and garlic are also exceptionally easy to grow, and better yet, on a hot day, standing in/over their row, the air smells awesome in a oniony/garlicy way. They also have exceptional storage life.
The word *exceptional * and it’s variants has appeared three times in the above post.
Perfect for container gardening
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**Jonathan ** What Zone do you live in? It looks like Zone 6 for most of Virginia.
Hey, the only ‘zone’ I know of are postal zones for mailing purposes. A little help here?
Onions wouldn’t be bad. I like to cook with them. Could I grow sufficient quantities in a container?
Ah.
My ‘ZONE’ appears to be ‘7A’. Must be the altitude.
But what does that mean?
Hemp for freedom!
Pot comes to mind, I don’t know why, I really never used the stuff.
Other then that, If your going to live there for more then 4 yrs, go for the long haul and plant asperagas ( or the easier to find, harder to spell version).
Heliotropes!
I’ve only ever seen them in San Diego, but they have a very interesting and un-flowerlike smell: sort of nutty/spicy.
I assume they can grow in Virginia, because Scott Joplin wrote a rag named Heliotrope Bouquet and Missouri’s climate is not that different from Virginia’s.
Grasshopper, you must learn to be as quick as the rattlesnake, and as clever as the weasel.
Come now, try and take the pebble from my hand…
Oh, no, I won’t fall for that old gag twice. 
Back on topic:
For interesting plants and seeds that are unusual, you **Jonathan ** are welcome to look here I’m thinking of growing my own coffee.
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I am not quite certain what the *a * means either. I am trying to google this and…uh…I think I broke google. Maybe because there were no references to boobs, dicks or hot sluts.
Living in Michigan, which is mostly a Zone 4, except on every gardening zone map there is this yellow wart, if you will, on lower than the second thumb knuckle in our fair state that says *this area is a Zone 5 *.
I may be stupid, but I am not that naive. I buy stuff suitable for zone 4 or 3.
OK, **Zone 7a ** means:
You can probably start your planting between March 30 - April 30, when the last spring frost occurs.
Lucky bastard.
Our plant date is June 1.
I don’t know about onion container gardening. You could probably do two or three bulbs in a container (depending on final growth size), but it isn’t as nearly as showy as tomatoes or lettuce in a container.
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