Asian vegetables & fruits

I was thinking of buying some seeds for more Asian vegetables & fruits (in addition to Chinese kale).

Got to do some research before I decide on anything:

• New Belt
• Green Lance chinese kale
• Happy Rich chinese kale
• Suiho chinese kale
• Summer Jean
• Chinese leeks
• Minuet bok choy
• Rubicon bok choy
• Hon Tsai Tai
• Suyo Long
• Astragalus (Milk Vetch)
• Self Heal
• Orient Express Eggplant
• Mangan japanese eggplant
• Chinese Cilantro
• Sun Jewel melon

Any advice? Any other Asian vegetables and fruits I should consider growing?

Harvest: 7 red grape tomatoes and 25 yellow pear tomatoes.

Kale & Winter Squash

The winter squash plants (Burgess Buttercup, Uchiki Kuri, and Delicata) are growing rapidly. They started to choke out the onions. I had to trim each of the plants back this morning.

As for the kale, I finally trimmed back the leaves that pretty much had no greens left (bugs), leaving several plants with just one or two leaves.

On the plants that had many healthy leaves, I harvested several.

Also planted more bok choy.

Harvest: 1oz red russian kale.

Long Bean

A friend just recommended that I try growing long beans.

This is what I've been able to figure out about them:

Vines are rampant growers (growing to 3' tall) and produce an enormous crop of long, slender, round pods the thickness of a pencil requiring full-sun and well-draining soil. Delicious young green beans are tender when picked at 12-15 inches long, and of fine flavor and quality as snap beans. Long Beans mature in 70 days.

Maybe next summer...

Harvest: 10 yellow pear tomatoes, 3 red grape tomatoes, 2 bambino hybrid eggplant, 2 scarlet globe radishes, 6 heads of baby prize choy bok choy, 1 cucumber, 1 superstar muskmelon (cantelope), and 1oz mibuna asian mustard greens.