■ ‘Golden Midget’ corn matures at 3 feet tall and bears tiny, 4-inch-long ears.

■ ‘Midget’, a pickling cuke, grows on 2-foot-long vines that will scramble up a trellis. To ensure that you get a space-saving plant, look for cucumbers with “bush” in the name, such as ‘Salad Bush’, ‘Bush Crop’, or ‘Bush Pickle’.

■ Romaine ‘Little Gem’, red cos ‘Pandero’, and but-terhead ‘Tom Thumb’ are a few of the many space-saving lettuces available. They’re perfect for container culture or for filling bare spots between other plants.

■ ‘Minnesota Midget’ is a cantaloupe with 3-foot- long vines that produce a multitude of melons, each only 4 inches in diameter.

■ For small seedless watermelons, try ‘Extazy’, which yields 4- to 5-pound fruits, or the aptly named ‘Bush Sugar Baby’, which produces 7-inch-wide fruits.

■ AAS winner ‘Sugar Ann’, ‘Sugar Lace’, and ‘Sugar Bon’ are dwarf snap peas that grow only 18 to 30 inches tall and need little or no support.

■ ‘Baby Belle’is a prolific bell pepper that bears 2- inch, sweet green peppers that will mature to bright red.

■ Although only 8 inches tall, ‘Thai Hot’ pepper plants will produce 2- to 3-inch-long peppers into the winter if brought indoors when frost threatens. They will also keep you warm: The peppers have a rating of 80,000 Scoville units (a system for measuring heat in peppers).

‘Cherry Bomb’bears heart-shape 1- by 2-inch peppers that are less hot, at only 4,000 Scovilles, on compact 8-inch-tall plants.

■ ‘Eight Ball’is an AAS-winning round zucchini that is as big as a baseball at maturity. ‘Geode’ and ‘Round Bush’are two other round zucchinis that grow on compact plants. All can be picked either when they are as