Vegetable garden plans

I selected seeds and plants for this year's garden several weeks ago, but I've been letting my choices ferment a bit before placing my orders. Now that my garden consists of raised beds, I have a firm grasp of just how much square footage is available for growing food and am planning appropriately.

If I were truly anal, I would plan my meals for the year and grow exactly what I need to cook those meals. The problem with such a goal is the garden, of course, and the weather, two frequently uncooperative variables in any gardening algorithm. That said, because I could not find golden beets in my local grocery stores, I am growing them just so I can make golden beet soup.

Here is this year's list for the vegetable garden:

Vegetable	Variety	Source	Form
Beets	Burpee's Golden	Seed Savers Exchange	seeds
Beets	Early Blood Turnip-rooted	Seed Savers Exchange	seeds
Broccoli	Sun King Hybrid	Burpee	seeds
Brussels sprouts	whatever	buy locally	1-3 plants
Bush bean	Blue Lake 274	Pinetree	seeds
Carrots	Danvers Half Long	Burpee	seeds
Corn	Honey and Cream	Pinetree	seeds
Cucumber	Burpless Beauty	Burpee	seeds
Kale	Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch	Pinetree	seeds
Kale	Red Russian	Pinetree	seeds
Kohlrabi	Early White Vienna	Pinetree	seeds
Lettuce	Pinetree Lettuce Mix	Pinetree	seeds
Lettuce	Pinetree Winter Lettuce Mix	Pinetree	seeds
Onions	Big Daddy Hybrid	Burpee	2 bunches
Parsnip	Harris Model	Pinetree	seeds
Peas, English	English	Pinetree	seeds
Peas, snap	Amish	Seed Savers EXchange	seeds
Pepper	Candlelight	Seed Savers Exchange	seeds
Pepper	Cherry Stuffer Hybrid	Burpee	3 plants
Pepper	Favorite sweet peppers	Burpee	6 plants
Potatoes	undecided	undecided	seed potatoes
Pumpkin	Small Sugar	Burpee	seeds
Pumpkin	Rouge Vif d'Etamps	Burpee	seeds
Radish	French Breakfast	Pinetree	seeds
Rutabaga	Joan	Seed Savers Exchange	seeds
Spinach	Space	Pinetree	seeds
Squash	Waltham Butternut	Ferry Morse	seeds
Sweet potatoes	Vardeman	me	plants
Tomatoes	Roma	Pinetree	seeds
Tomatoes	Fresh Salsa hybrid	Burpee	1 plant
Tomatoes	Sun Gold hybrid	Burpee	1 plant
Tomatoes	Supersauce hybrid	Burpee	1 plant
Turnip	Purple Top White Globe	Seed Savers Exchange	seeds
Zucchini	Burpee hybrid	Burpee	seeds

As you can see, I have not yet selected an Irish potato to grow. The variety I have favored in recent years is Carola, but it is getting hard to find so I'm looking for a new favorite. Many of the other vegetable varieties listed above are ones I have grown with varying success, others are new or new-to-me. Some veggies, like kale, I have never grown. It should be an interesting year.