I grow the snap peas in the winter here - along with broccoli, lettuce, mustard greens, etc. My fall garden usually does better than the spring one. I do plant tomatoes each spring - in fact I should have them in by now, and I love the yard long beans too. We really had no real winter so the pepper plants lived through it. I usually get in trouble by planting watermelon and squash and other viney things that swallow up the whole vegetable garden.