Plant Guide 2024
We love plants!
All our plants are started from seed here on the farm and raised in our greenhouse. All plants available at market are ready to plant, but can also live in their little pots until you are ready to plant them - just make sure to keep them watered. Plants are available for sale from the end of April through the end of May. Once we are out of a variety, we are out for the season. Current availability of plants for sale will be maintained in our online store.
A few tips for a successful home garden:
All vegetable plants thrive in full sun and the more space given to grow, the bigger the plant will get and the more it will yield. If growing in containers, stick to one plant per container and make sure you have a big enough container to support the plant.
Water regularly, plants benefit from being watered once per day.
Provide support for plants like tomatoes that love to climb. A stake and some twine can help support the plant or using fencing or a tomato cage.
Once the plant begins to fruit, make sure to harvest regularly to help the plant continue to produce more delicious garden goodness.
And, if you are have questions, ask! We are always happy to answer home gardening questions at the market or over email/direct message to the best of our ability.
Hot Peppers
Shishito: 100 to 1,000 Scoville Units. A Japanese heirloom that looks slightly wrinkled. One in 10 peppers has the potential to be mildly spicy. A favorite for grilling.
Italian Pepperoncini: 100 to 500 Scoville Units. A small, mild pepper often used for pickling.
Trident Poblano: 250 to 1,500 Scoville Units. Triangular shaped, thin walled mild peppers. Often used in chili rellenos. Perfect for stuffing.
Padron: 500 to 2,500 Scoville Units. Small, elongated peppers similar to shishito peppers. One in five peppers can be spicy, while the rest are mild.
Cajun Belle: 500 to 4,000 Scoville Units. Tiny bell shaped peppers that are spicy and sweet. Ripens from green to red. 2010 AAS winner.
Red Hot Cherry: 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville Units. Round, small peppers that are both sweet and spicy. Perfect for stuffing and pickling.
Jalafuego: 4,000 to 6,000 Scoville Units. Our favorite type of jalapeño - they grow a little bit bigger and a little bit spicier and produce vigorously.
Devil Serrano: 6,000 to 30,000 Scoville Units. Spicier than a jalapeño and a little bit smaller. Peppers mature from dark green to red.
Arapaho Cayenne: 35,000 to 40,000 Scoville Units. A very large, thick walled cayenne pepper. These tend to be a little milder in heat, but pack a ton of flavor.
Chinese 5 Color: 30,000 to 50,000 Scoville Units. Little hot peppers that turn a rainbow of colors. You can see purple, cream, yellow, orange, and red peppers throughout the season. Peppers ultimately ripen to red. This was a favorite home garden plant of 2023, providing beautiful, spicy, and ornamental plants.
Red Mushroom Scotch Bonnet: 100,000 to 200,000 Scoville Units. An early maturing Scotch Bonnet pepper. Scotch Bonnets are similar in heat to habaneros and are very hot and tasty. Ripens from green to red.
Jamaican Scotch Bonnet: 100,000 - 350,000 Scoville Units. Small, thick walled peppers similar in heat to a habanero.
Orange Habanero: 150,000 to 350,000 Scoville Units. Very hot little peppers. Ripens from green to orange.
Wicked Ghost: 800,000+ Scoville Units. Early producing ghost pepper. These peppers are extremely hot and mature to a bright red color.
Sweet Peppers
Yellow Monster: huge long yellow bell peppers that can grow to be 8 inches long and 4 wide. Ripens from green to yellow.
Purple Beauty: a purple bell pepper! These thick walled pepper ripen to a deep purple.
Ajvarski: a wedge shaped sweet pepper. Thick walled and tasty. These peppers ripen from green to red.
Blot: A small to medium sized sweet pepper that matures from purple to orange. Sweet and perfect for snacking.
Zulu: A thin walled bell pepper that ripens to an eggplant black color.
Txorixero: (pronounded cho-dee-share-dow) A sweet frying pepper. These peppers are elongated with thin skin, sweet and ripen from green to red. This pepper has multiple uses, from fresh to grilled to dried.
Eggplant
Hansel: long purple eggplant that range in size from 2 to 10 inches with no bitterness and few seeds. From the same family as the fairy tale eggplant. 2008 AAS Winner.
Gretel: small, white eggplant that ranges in size from 3 to 4 inches. Tender skin and few seeds. From the same family as the fairy tale eggplant. 2009 AAS Winner.
Fairy Tale: small, purple and white stripped eggplants that grow in clusters. When harvested at about 4 inches long, they are sweet, bitter-free, and nearly seedless. 2005 AAS Winner.
Mitoyo: a large eggplant, tear dropped shaped, and nearly black in color. Tender and sweet, can even be eaten raw, and is often used for pickling.
Tomatoes
Paste Tomatoes
Pomodoro Squisito: a San Marzano type paste tomato. Perfect for canning. This variety has resistance to blossom end rot. Indeterminate.
Slicing & Beefsteak Tomatoes
Great White: a white beefsteak tomato. Plants usually produce 1 pound tomatoes that have a smooth, fruity flavor. Great for eating fresh. Indeterminate.
Blue Beauty: a cross between a beauty king and a blue tomato. 4 to 8 oz beefsteak tomato, red with blue-black shoulders. Indeterminate.
Carbon: an heirloom tomato that resists cracking. A good sized slicing tomato. Winner of best tasting tomato at the 2005 Heirloom Garden Show. Indeterminate.
Mountain Fresh Plus: a big red slicing tomato. Tomatoes weigh in at 8 to 16 ounces. Determinate.
Salad & Oxheart Tomatoes
Queen of the Night: a salad type black tomato. The tomato grows to around 3 ounces and has streaks of ebony, crimson, and orange. Indeterminate with a compact habit.
Raspberry Lyanna: a medium sized raspberry-pink tomato. Semi-determinate.
Black Strawberry: 2 ounce tomatoes that grow in a marbled pattern of purple, pink, green, and gold. Has a balanced sweet-tart flavor. Early producing and vigorous. Indeterminate.
Cherry Tomatoes
Tiger Pink: an artisan cherry tomato with an elongated shape. Pink with yellow stripes and has a sweet tropical flavor. Indeterminate.
Sunrise Bumble Bee: artisan cherry tomato that is orange, yellow, and red striped. Indeterminate.
Pink Bumble Bee: artisan cherry tomato that is pink with yellow stripes. Indeterminate.
Purple Bumble Bee: artisan cherry tomato that is dark red, purple with green stripes. Indeterminate.
Apricot Zebra: golf ball sized orange cherry tomato with green shoulders. These larger cherries have a wonderful flavor! Indeterminate.
Okra
Jambalaya: highly productive green okra. This variety tends to start producing a little earlier and will produce throughout the summer as long as you keep harvesting.
Jing Orange: a red-orange okra that is full of flavor. Produces tender okra, even up to 6-8 inches. Will turn greener when cooked. Offers some color variety in fresh dishes and in your garden.
Herbs
Rosemary: tender perennial. Needle like leaves used in many dishes in the kitchen.
Parsley: flat leaf with stronger flavor than curly parsley.
Sage: perennial. flavorful leaves often used in pork dishes and sausage.
Marjoram: herb provides a sweet flavoring and balance in cooking.
Oregano: perennial. Greek variety is the classic flavor used in Italian dishes.
Fernleaf Dill: compact variety of dill, absolutely essential for pickles. 1992 AAS Winner.
Genovese Basil: heirloom Italian basil. This is the standard of basil when you think of basil.
African Nunum Basil: giant leaves and has a oregano flavor mixed with the basil flavor. Will be available mid-May.
Persian Basil: lemony and spice-like aroma with green and purple leaves.
Chinese Sweet Basil: lemony, orange-flavored basil that is tender and aromatic.
Cinnamon/Mexican Basil: light cinnamon and anise flavors.
Dark Purple Opal Basil: a completely purple plant. Flavorful, rich, and sweet.
Blue Spice Basil: grows spikes of light purple flowers and has a spicy vanilla fragrance.
Thyme: culinary herb with small leaves. Considered a tender perennial, if planted in a container and kept indoors during the winter it is more likely to come back in the spring.
Chinese Chives & Garlic Chives: perennial, winter tolerant, with a garlic flavor.
Cilantro, Slo-Bolt: marketed as slower bolting to help last in your garden longer.
Cilantro, Dwarf Lemon: compact plants that produce cilantro with a subtle citrus flavor.
Sorrel Gabonese: Lemony leaves that can be used in salads and soups.
Dock - Bloody: perennial. a variety of sorrel that has red veined leaves and a lemony flavor.