Elk Grove Community Garden Spring Plant Sale 2023

Saturday, April 22nd from 9AM to 1PM

Get your garden going this Spring and support the garden at the same time!
We’ll have a large selection of plants lovingly grown from seed by our community gardeners. See you there!

The Details:

Where: The Elk Grove Community Garden at 10025 Hampton Oak Drive, Elk Grove, CA 95624.
When: Saturday, April 22 from 9am to 1pm
Plants will be sold on a first come, first served basis.
Payment: Cash, Checks, or Venmo
The Garden will be accepting canned food donations for the Elk Grove Food Bank.

Below are the plants we will available. More plants will be available in person at the sale (succulents, limited quantity veggies/flowers, etc.).

**New this year**

We will also have a garden boutique with garden tools, pots, seeds (A LOT OF SEEDS), veggie garden kits and lots, lots more! See below for a boutique preview!!

Tomatoes

Ox Heart

Type: Slicer
Days to Maturity: 84 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: up to 3lbs!
Description:  These oxhearts are the biggest of the big. A local gardener donated this seed to us, and we were instantly smitten. Its fruits are huge, weight up to 3 lbs.; its flavor is exceptional; its texture is dense and multi-layered with heart-like flaps and cavities.

Available in a 4” pot

Roma

Type: Paste
Days to Maturity: 73 Days
Fruit Bearing: Determinate
Fruit Weight: 2-3oz
Description: Prized for its use in tomato paste and sauces, Roma produces a large harvest of thick-walled, meaty, bright red, egg-shaped tomatoes about 3 Inches Long and with few seeds. This tomato is not juicy. This is not a slicing tomato. Instead, the flesh is thick and drier so that it will cook down into a thick sauce. Cooking intensifies flavor, too. If you can tomatoes, make your own spaghetti sauce, or like to chop a tomato into an omelet, this is a great choice. It’s not too juicy in the pan compared to slicing tomatoes. The fruit freezes well for later cooking, too.

Available in a 4” pot

Heirloom Beefsteak

Type: Beefsteak
Days to Maturity: 85 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 16oz
Description: An old-time favorite that has been popular for many years due to it’s excellent productivity and wonderful taste. Our TomatoFest organic tomato seeds produce lush, thick, indeterminate, regular-leaf, tomato plants that yield from vigorous vines, 4 to 5-inch, slightly ribbed, bright-red tomatoes that have spectacularly delicious, sweet flavors. This tomato’s excellent taste and meaty flesh make it an ideal tomato for eating fresh or cooking, for slicing into sandwiches, using in salads or for canning!

Available in a 4” pot

BushSteak Hybrid

Type: Beefsteak
Days to Maturity: 65 Days
Fruit Bearing: Determinate
Fruit Weight: 8-12oz
Description:  Meet the best of the staked tomatoes-a standout for exceptional taste, size and quantity. This surprisingly compact (20-24″) plant is just loaded with large, flavorful tomatoes. Well-suited for a patios, small gardens and containers, the dwarf plants offer big meaty fruit (8-12 oz.) and early maturity.

Available in a 4” pot

Heirloom Tomato

Type: Beefsteak
Days to Maturity: 77 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: Up to 2lbs
Description: Huge, solid scarlet fruits average 1 lb.; some even weigh 2 lb. Smooth, crack-free, excellent slicer with extra delicious flavor.

Available in a 4” pot

4th of July

Type: Slicer
Days to Maturity: 49 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 4oz
Description: Our earliest tomato, you could have luscious vine-ripened fruit as early as the Fourth of July! The indeterminate plants produce a plentiful harvest of red 4 oz. tomatoes all season long.

Available in a 4” pot

Rose de Berne

Type: Slicer
Days to Maturity: 75 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 4-8oz
Description:  a dependable and beautiful tomato for general purpose use. Its fruits are blocky, on the squat side, with a warm hue that is nearly peachy, often with a spot of yellow. Their skin is smooth and taut, pulled against a unique “architecture” that suggests subtle vertical ribbing..

Available in a 4” pot

Mikado

Type: Slicer
Days to Maturity: 85 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Size: 1 1/2-2lbs, 6″
Description: The first commercially available potato leaf tomato released in 1886, Mikado was once known as Turner’s Hybrid. After Turner shared the seeds, it was renamed after a once popular and now controversial opera. It then took a back seat to its own progeny; the now famous Brandywine that started the heirloom tomato craze in contemporary times was bred from Mikado. Just as the Kitsune Fox’s many tails signal its wisdom, the many tales of Mikado hint at its valuable place in the pantheon of garden tomato history.

Available in a 4” pot

Black Krim

Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity: 80 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 8oz
Description: Dark red-purple fruit, rich sweet flavor. One of the best. It always places high in tomato taste trials. It’s very juicy. An heirloom from Russia with very unique looking, large fruit. The wonderful flavor is popular at many markets on the West Coast; also a favorite of many fine chefs. The top tomato in our 2014 nutritional study and voted best tasting.

Available in a 4” pot

Aunt Ruby’s Green Beefsteak

Type: Beefsteak
Days to Maturity: 85 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: up to 16oz
Description: One of the largest green beefsteaks. Can grow to over 1 pound and is delicious. It has brilliant, neon-green flesh with a strong, sweet, and fruity flavor, much tastier than most red tomatoes. This family heirloom from Germany is beautiful.

Available in a 4” pot

 Sweetie Cherry

Type: Cherry
Days to Maturity: 70 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 1oz
Description:  Classic cherry tomato that lives up to its sweet name is well known for its hearty flavor and early harvest.  ‘Sweetie’ produces large numbers of ¾”–1″ cherry tomatoes in grape-like clusters. Provide support for vigorous vines that easily reach 6′ long. Low-acidity tomato.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Sweet Peppers

 

California Wonder Pepper

Type: Sweet Pepper
Days to Maturity: 70 Days
Fruit Size:  6-7″
Description: One of the oldest and largest heirloom bell pepper available. First introduced by California growers around 1928. Tall, sturdy plants produce good yields of blocky, thick-walled fruits. A delicious green pepper that ripens to a vibrant red.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Spicy Peppers

 

Anaheim Pepper

Type: Chile Pepper
Days to Maturity: 80 Days
Fruit Size:
Description: The ideal pepper for roasting, stuffing, or canning, in addition to using fresh. This pepper has thick walls, uniform, 6″-8″-long fruit, with few seeds and big yields! Very productive plants. Peppers turn red when mature. 500-2,500 Scoville heat units (mild)..

Available in a 4” pot

Jalapeno

Type: Chile Pepper
Days to Maturity: 75 Days
Fruit Size: 1-2″
Description: Lots of bold flavor in a small, 3″ pepper, Incredibly versatile, they’re hot enough to add a little kick to your favorite dish, but mild enough for any meal. Enjoy green or allow to ripen to red for a sweeter, bolder flavor. Jalapeños rate 2,500–5,000 Scoville heat units (medium hot).

Available in a 4” pot

Habenero

Type: Chile Pepper
Days to Maturity: 95-100 Days
Fruit Size: 1-2″
Description: Our hottest of all peppers. Habanero means from Havana. Habanero and its kin long ago migrated from the Caribbean Islands to Central America where they remain extremely popular today. A close relative of the Jamaican Scotch Bonnet. To complement its searing heat, the heirloom Habanero has a delicious, pungent, smoky quality unlike any other pepper; many people find its flavor and aroma irresistible in sauces and salsas.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Squash

 

Yellow Straight Neck Squash

Squash Variety: Summer Squash
Days to Maturity: 46
Fruit Size: 4-10″
Description:  Heirloom. This early, prolific straightneck summer squash produces creamy yellow, tender fruit of excellent quality early in the season. Plants continue bearing if kept picked and cared for. It has a tapered, straight neck, not curved like Crookneck, making it perfect to slice into lengths for grilling.

Available in a 4” pot

Scalloped Squash

Squash Variety: Summer Squash
Days to Maturity: 45-60
Fruit Size: 2-4″
Description: 

Available in a 4” pot

Grey Zucchini

Squash Variety: Summer Squash
Days to Maturity: 48
Fruit Size: 4-10″
Description: 

Available in a 4” pot

Yellow Zucchini

Squash Variety: Summer Squash
Days to Maturity: 48
Fruit Size: 4-10″
Description: 

Available in a 4” pot

Buttercup Squash

Squash Variety: Winter Squash
Days to Maturity: 95
Fruit Size: 3-5lbs
Description:  A northern New England favorite. Great culinary attributes for an organic, open-pollinated variety: creamy, deep orange flesh with rich, sweet flavor. Avg. weight: 3–5 lb

Available in a 4” pot

Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin

Squash Variety: Winter Squash
Days to Maturity: 105
Fruit Size: 15-25lbs

Available in a 4” pot

Jack-Be-Little Pumpkin

Squash Variety: Winter Squash
Days to Maturity: 95 Days
Fruit Size: 3-4″

Available in a 4” pot

Sugar Pie Pumpkins

Squash Variety: Winter Squash
Days to Maturity: 90-110
Fruit Size: 6-7″
Description: Since the 1800s, ‘Sugar Pie’ has been the standard for making terrific pies, soups, muffins, and casseroles. Small, 6″-7″ fruits are also good for carving decor-size jack o’lanterns. Stores for months. Also called ‘New England’ pumpkin. 

Available in a 4” pot

Spaghetti Squash

Squash Variety:  Winter Squash
Days to Maturity: 88 Days
Fruit Size: 3-5lbs
Description: Slightly sweet, nutty flavor. Oblong in shape with ivory skin that changes to pale yellow at maturity. An excellent pasta alternative — bake or boil, fork out the flesh, and top the “spaghetti” with your favorite sauce

Available in a 4” pot

 

Cucumbers

 

Space Master Cucumber

Days to Maturity: 60 Days
Fruit Size:
Description:  Tender, thin skin, burpless, and non-bitter—what else could you want in a cucumber? Japanese cucumbers are known for their slender, long shape, with thin, sweet skin, and very few, tiny seeds. Highly productive plant, grow on a trellis to save space while growing straighter fruit. Sure to become your new favorite.

Available in a 4″ Pot

Spring Cucumber

Days to Maturity: 52 Days
Fruit Size: 3-5″
Description: Long slender cukes

  • Crisp, mild, bitter free and burpless

  • Easy to peel

Available in a 4″ pot

Hartley Cucumber

Days to Maturity: 68 Days
Fruit Size: 7-9″
Description: Adaptable for both hot and cool climates, this dark green Poinsett-type has very few white spines. Resistant to cucumber diseases including Powdery Mildew. This blocky slicer measures 7-9″.

Available in a 4″ Pot

 

Herbs

 

Dill

Available in a 4” pot

Cilantro

Available in a 4” pot

Borage

 

Available in a 4” pot

Mint

Available in a 4” pot

Thyme

Available in a 4” pot

Window Box Basil

Available in a 4” pot

 

Lettuce/Greens

 

Red Russian Kale

Available in a  4” pot

Mesclun Lettuce Mix

Available in a 4″ pots

 

Flowers 

 

Dwarf French Marigolds

Available in a 4” pot

Calendula, variety of colors

Available in a 4” pot

Zinnia, variety of colors

Available in a 4” pot

 

Melons

 

Cantaloupe

Days to Maturity: 80 Days
Fruit Size: 3-4lbs
Description: HEIRLOOM. This muskmelon became widely popular because it combined excellent flavor with earliness. Beautifully ribbed oval melon with deep-green skin and golden netting. Firm, salmon-toned flesh is aromatic and sweet. A refreshing breakfast treat and a savory hors d’oeuvre when partnered with prosciutto. Thrives in hot weather. Plant at the base of a trellis so vines can climb.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Beans

 

Bush Beans, Blue Lake

Days to Maturity: 58 Days
Fruit Size: 5-6″ pods
Description: HEIRLOOM. Plump, tender pods 5 to 6″ long, with white seeds. Heirloom plants produce plump, tender 5–6″ white-seeded pods prolifically over a long season. Fiber-free beans are delicious stir-fried, steamed—or sautéed, and accented with garlic. Early-yielding plants require no support.

Available in 6-Pack pot

Asian Purple String Beans

Days to Maturity: 58 Days

Available in a 4″ pot

 

Peas

 

Pole Green Beans, Kentucky Wonder

Days to Maturity: 65 Days
Fruit Size: 9″ Pods
Description: HEIRLOOM. Pods are oval, thick, gently curved, meaty and tender. Stringless when young. One of the most popular beans of all time and a favorite of American gardeners since the late 19th century. Variety can be relied on for peak flavor, productivity, and wide adaptability. Yields abundant clusters of thick, meaty 9″ green pods. Stringless when young. Delicious fresh, cooked, frozen, or dried for shell beans.

Available in a 4″ pot

 

Eggplant

 

Peas, Green Arrow Shelling

Days to Maturity: 65 Days
Fruit Size: 4-5″ Pods

Description: Remember as a kid the fun of popping open a pod and eating the sweet green peas found inside? Bring back the memories and enjoy the ease of growing peas on productive plants that reach only 28″ tall. Pods set in pairs atop the plant make harvesting easy. Great for fresh eating and freezing.

Available in a 4″ pot

 

Strawberries

 

Black Beauty Eggplant

Days to Maturity: 74 Days
Fruit Size: 4-5″
Description: A beautiful vegetable with lovely, lavender blossoms pretty enough to grow in the flower garden. ‘Black Beauty’ has set the standard since 1902 for large, high-quality fruit. Outstanding when harvested at their peak, the skin is tender, so no need to peel it. A widely used international food; there are countless recipes from Italy to China to Russia and beyond.

Available in a 4″ pot

 

 

 

 

Fig Trees

 

Strawberry Plants

Available in a 4″ pot

 

Garden Boutique

 

Black Mission Figs

Available in 1-gallon pots.