Gulfcoastguy said:

Watermelons might be difficult due to your short growing season and cool temps plus they take up room. Blacktail Mountain is an excellent icebox sized choice. For tomatoes 🍅 Sungold or it’s newer offspring Sunsugar are excellent cherry tomatoes that produce relatively quickly. Speaking of cherry, any thought of fruit trees or bushes?
Back to vegetables by squash are you talking about summer squash like zucchini or winter squash like Buttercup? Winter squash tend to have longer vines. I really can’t recommend varieties for winter squash because our climates are so different. Possibly Buttercup, Kabocha, or related hybrids.
you might also consider garlic.

Thanks for all the insight and recommendations. I'll be sure to pass this along. 

No fruit trees at the moment. The previous owner had a smaller apple tree and we unfortunately didn't do a very good job with it. Half the tree ended up snapping off in a wind storm with the apples. We should have probably picked off some of the apples. My neighbor has an apple, fig, and possibly a pear tree in his backyard. He also has raspberry bushes. So it's possible. We have really sandy soil. Another reason why he recommended the no till way. We brought in a bunch of compost this past fall. I think we will add to it again this spring. My neighbor says he hardly touches it once everything is planted. Hopefully we can emulate his garden in the next 4-5 years. 

I'll definitely take a look at the Thai Hot peppers. I'd like to find a variety of pepper. Thanks!

Kayak said:

Fencing first and foremost. Nothing makes you more upset than to come out and find some varmint has harvested the day before you were going to. Rabbits are easy to foil, chipmunks, birds, squirrels, and groundhogs harder, deer impossible. After that, understand that tomatoes and peppers get disease, and cucumbers draw cucumber beetles. I enjoy starting seed for tomatoes and peppers, and flowers for my wife, but there’s a learning curve. Johnny’s seeds has good varieties that you won’t find in any nursery. 

My biggest worry is the Asian Beatles. They come out in full force with a couple of our trees. I can only imagine what they could do to the garden. Gophers are a hit and miss depending on the year. Rabbits will probably be the biggest issue. Fortunately/unfortunately we don't have very much wildlife around here. A squirrel is a rare sighting. We for sure will have to do some type of fencing.