Elk Grove Community Garden Spring Plant Sale 2025

Saturday, April 5th from 9AM to 1PM

The Details:

Where: The Elk Grove Community Garden at 10025 Hampton Oak Drive, Elk Grove, CA 95624
When:
Saturday, April 5 from 9am to 1pm
Plants will be sold on a first come, first served basis.
Payment: Cash, Checks, Venmo (@ElkGrove-CommunityGarden) or PayPal
The garden will also be accepting canned food donations for the Elk Grove Food Bank.

 

Cherry and Grape Tomatoes

 

Purple Bumblebee Tomato…$3

Type: Cherry
Days to Maturity: 60-70 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description:  Slightly elongated little cherries with the most outrageous striping in lime green and bronzy-purple! Crack-resistant fruit is produced all season long on plants that are unfazed by temperature extremes. The flavor is complex but sweet.

Available in a 4” pot

Brad’s Atomic Grape…$3

 

Type: Grape
Days to Maturity: 75 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description: Our favorite tomato! Large, elongated cherries in clusters. The color (and flavor!) is a full-blown assault on the senses—lavender and purple stripes that turn to Technicolor olive-green, red, and brown/blue stripes when fully ripe. Really wild! Fruit holds well on the vine or off, making this amazing variety a good candidate for market growers. Crack-resistant fruit is extraordinarily sweet! Wispy foliage looks delicate but belies these plants’ rugged constitution and high productivity. These range some in size from a large grape to plum-sized.

 

Available in a 4” pot

Red and Yellow Pear Tomato…$3

 

Type: Grape
Days to Maturity: 75 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description:  An old-fashioned treat. Our mixed seed packet offers an easy way to grow plants of both crimson-red and sunny yellow little pear shaped tomatoes that ripen like delectable drops of flavor in luscious long clusters. You’ll find their bright colors, appealing shapes and mild sweet taste truly irresistible.

 

Available in a 4” pot

Chocolate Pear Tomato…$3

 

Type: Grape
Days to Maturity: 70 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description: Expect huge crops of nearly black pear-shaped tomatoes over a very long season. Chocolate Pear has the rich tomato flavor that has made heirlooms so popular! A great variety for CSAs and market growers. Light red in color, overlaid with swirls of varying hues of green or brown. Very unusual and decidedly one of the best!

 

Available in a 4” pot

Apricot Zebra Tomato…$3

 

Type: Cherry
Days to Maturity: 65 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description: Stunning, richly tangerine-colored cherries. They are very unique in appearance, as the lime-green shoulders and extra-fine green striping of the unripe fruit morph to brilliant yellow at maturity. The firm-fleshed, slightly oblong golf-ball-sized fruit are perfect for salads or snacking. Vigorous, disease-resistant plants are wildly productive. Luscious! One of the best-tasting tomatoes we have tried, being flavorsome and sweet with a wonderful texture.

 

Available in a 4” pot

Sweet 100 Cherry Tomato…$3

 

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

Sun Gold Cherry Tomato…$3

 

Type: Cherry
Days to Maturity: 70 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 1oz
Description: 

Available in a 4” pot

Emalia Tomato…$3

 

Type: Grape
Days to Maturity:  70-80 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 5-10oz
Description: Get ready for a flavor explosion with this incredibly sweet Saladette tomato from France! These caramel-brown beauties are splashed with green and boast intensely flavored, wine-to-burgundy hued flesh. With their long, pointed shape, these 2-inch nuggets are as eye-catching as they are delicious. Productive vines yield fruit with thick skins, perfect for making salsa, sauces, or just snacking fresh from the patch. These little gems are sure to be a hit in your garden!

Available in a 4” pot

Striped Chocolate Cherry Tomato…$3

 

Type: Cherry
Days to Maturity: 70
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description:  Beautiful 1-1 1/2 inch, elongated cherries are deep coppery-red, striped with dark forest green. Fruits have a rich sweet flavor and grow in trusses of 7 to 7. Very productive and early. Protect young Plants from frost with Hot Caps. Use Blossom Set Spray to help hold flowers on and increase yield. Support Vines with stakes or tomato cages to keep the fruit off the ground and avoid pests and diseases. Use mulch to cool soil and retain moisture in summer. Crack-resistant fruit in 70 days.

Available in a 4” pot

Barry’s Crazy Cherry Tomato…$3

 

Type: Cherry
Days to Maturity: 75
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description:  These pale yellow cherries are delicious, and grow in some of the largest clusters known! Sweet fruit is oval, each with a tiny “beak” at the blossom end. The flavor is good, the fruit keeps well, and the sight of the 20- to 40-fruit trusses on the large plants is positively mind-boggling. A stunning new Wild Boar Farms release.

Available in a 4” pot

Aunt Molly’s Ground Cherry…$3

 

Type: Ground Cherry
Days to Maturity: 75
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description:  Polish heirloom variety that has an unusually fine flavor—very sweet with a nice hint of tartness. 1/2-3/4-inch fruit is enclosed in a papery husk which drops to the ground when fully ripe. High pectin content makes this one an excellent choice for pies and preserves.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Heirloom Tomatoes

 

Brown Sugar Tomato...$3

 

Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity:  70-85 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 7oz
Description:  A Russian heirloom with a silky texture and a smoky, complex flavor. Black tomatoes are famous for their rich, nuanced flavor, and the 7-ounce, globe-shaped fruit of Brown Sugar does not disappoint. This is a gourmet, sugar-sweet tomato, just perfect for snacking, slicing, cooked dishes, and sauces.

Available in a 4” pot

Berkley Pink Tie-Dye Tomato…$3

 

Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity:  65-75 Days
Fruit Bearing: Ineterminate
Fruit Weight: 8-12oz
Description: Compact plants produce beautiful 8-12 ounce fruit with a very sweet, rich, dark tomato flavor. 10 out of 10 people liked the port wine-colored beefsteak with metallic green stripes better than Cherokee Purple in a farmers market taste-off.

Available in a 4” pot

German Johnson Tomato…$3

 

Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity:  80 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description: German Johnson is an odd name, great tomato. With notes of citrus and melon, it is a dark pink tomato when ripe that weighs in around a pound once fully matured. This plant produces all season long with high yields. The fantastic quality of fruit is perfect for the home garden or farmers’ markets. Spacing is important with this variety’s huge vines! Leave a minimum of three feet between each plant for the best production.

Available in a 4” pot

Kellogg’s Breakfast Tomato…$3

 

Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity:  85 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description: These beefy slicers are plenty big enough for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Easily reaching 4–5 inches across or larger, the brilliant, orange fruit are rich, meaty, and full flavored. Indeterminate plants have an open, rambling habit.

Available in a 4” pot

Curtis Cheer Tomato…$3

 

Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity:  80 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 10-16oz
Description: Prolific yields of smooth, reddish-orange fruits average 10 to 16 oz. each. With an old-fashioned flavor you’ll remember from childhood, these high-yielding, multi-use tomatoes will last throughout the season and are ideal for canning, freezing or for home-cooked meals. Crack resistant. Indeterminate.

Available in a 4” pot

Thorburn’s Terra-Cotta…$3

 

Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity: 75 Days
Fruit Bearing: Semi-Determinate
Fruit Weight: 1-2lbs
Description: Incredible flavor, color, and history! Introduced in 1893 by James Thorburn of New York, this is one of the most sensational tomatoes we have ever grown. With honey-brown skin, orange-pink flesh, and green seed mass, this is an eye-catching slicer with an out-of-this-world flavor. The tomato produces heavily during mid-season and then drops off quickly once cool weather sets in. As a cooker, it will yield a pumpkin-orange sauce with a floral aroma.

Available in a 4” pot

Black from Tula Tomato...$3

 

Type: Slicer/Heirloom
Days to Maturity: 70-80 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 8-12oz
Description: Savvy seed savers and heirloom connoisseurs regard this as one of the best-tasting tomatoes. This 8-12 ounce slicer has a smoky, complex flavor and dark chocolate-colored flesh. Believed to have originated from a Ukrainian family heirloom, it is very well adapted and reliable to a wide range of conditions. 

Available in a 4” pot

Phil’s One Tomato…$3

 

Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity:  85-90 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description: A mid-season variety. Possibly the wildest, most eye-catching tomato we have ever seen! Regular leaf plants produce extraordinary bumpy, glowing yellow globes! Philippe Rommens, a tomato breeder from France, pulled characteristics from the reisetomate, or traveler tomato, to create this fanciful fusion.

Available in a 4” pot

Brandywine Red Tomato…$3

 

Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity:  80 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description: The nation’s favorite heirloom tomato! Vigorous vines with big, globe-shaped, rosy-red, tender fruits bursting with juicy flavor. Perfect to eat right off the vine, or slice for sandwiches.

Available in a 4” pot

Black Krim Tomato…$3

 

Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity:  80 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
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 the Crimean Peninsula 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. .

Available in a 4” pot

Wooly Kate Tomato…$3

 

Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity:  75 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description:  A rare and unusual oddity. This sunny yellow fruit with blue shoulders is covered in a light peach fuzz! This alien-looking variety may turn heads, but its juicy sweet flavor will win your heart. These cocktail-type tomatoes reach 2-3 inches in diameter, making them an excellent snack tomato. It is also wonderful in salads and cooked dishes.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Slicer and Sauce Tomatoes

 

4th of July…$3

 

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

Burmese Sour Tomato…$3

 

Type: Slicing/Sauce
Days to Maturity:  80 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 5-10oz
Description: Dramatically ribbed with satiny scarlet flesh, this is one of the most beautiful tomatoes we have grown, and the taste is fantastic as well! It offers a lovely tart flavor that is superior for cooking. It averages in size from 5 to 10 ounces. Excellent in Burmese tomato salad and curries, as well as a general-purpose slicing and saucing tomato. From the South Asian country of Myanmar (Burma).

Available in a 4” pot

Korean Long Tomato…$3

 

Type: Slicing/Sauce
Days to Maturity:  85-90 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 6-14oz
Description: Unique, tasty and versatile, this Korean Long variety is a great sauce or slicing tomato with meaty flesh and superb flavor. The long pinkish-red fruit has a slightly curved pointed nose or tail and ranges between 6-14 ounces, with some fruit being more heart-shaped. A crack-resistant paste tomato that is productive, reliable and bursting with heirloom flavor. This sumptuous and flavorful variety is delicious both fresh and cooked.

Available in a 4” pot

Early Treat Tomato…$3

 

Type: Slicer
Days to Maturity:  49 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 4oz
Description: Extra early plants produce plentiful clusters of tasty 4oz fruits.

Available in a 4” pot

San Marzano  Tomato…$3

 

Type: Paste
Days to Maturity:  75 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description: The Real Thing! Treasured old Italian variety whose reliable heavy yields of plump, elongated fruit taste great fresh picked and also stand out for cooking into rich, thick sauce.

Available in a 4” pot

Amish Paste Tomato…$3

 

Type: Paste
Days to Maturity:  80 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight:
Description: The giant, blocky, Roma-type tomatoes have delicious red flesh that is perfect for paste and canning. It has a world-class flavor..

Available in a 4” pot

Tomato Bush Supremo Tomato…$3

 

Type: Paste
Days to Maturity:  68 Days
Fruit Bearing: Determinate
Fruit Weight:
Description: Supremo’ produces a dependable mid-season crop of impressively large, uniform tomatoes that set well even in heat. You’ll have loads of tomatoes to make sauce or paste, chop for salads or salsas, or slice for sandwiches. In areas with a long growing season, a successive planting will double your harvest! Excellent disease resistance, including Fusarium wilt (1-3), Verticillium wilt, root knot, bacterial speck, and spotted wilt.

Available in a 4” pot

Beefsteak Tomato…$3

 

Type: Slicing
Days to Maturity:  96 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 10oz-2lbs

Description: What tomato lover wouldn’t love thick, meaty slices of homegrown tomatoes on their sandwiches? ‘Beefsteak’ is a century-old favorite not only for sandwiches, but also any dish calling for rich, tomato flavor. Vines are so vigorous (up to 6′ or more) you will need a sturdy wire cage to support them and the 1-2 pound fruits! Produces summer to fall.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Sweet Peppers

 

Carnival Blend Sweet Peppers…$3

 

Type: Sweet Bell Pepper
Days to Maturity: 70 Days
Fruit Size:  3-4″
Description:  You will get one of five different, colorful bell peppers. Some will turn out gold or orange and others will be red, purple or ivory. Most start out green and are tasty as soon as they reach full size; a few weeks later, their full ripe color will show. These are all classic big bells: California Wonder, Diamond, Golden California Wonder, Orange Sun and Purple Beauty.

Available in a 4” pot

California Wonder Peppers...$3

 

Type: Bell Pepper
Days to Maturity: 75 Days
Fruit Size:  3″ x 4″
Description:  An old-time favorite since 1928 for good reason! ‘California Wonder’s’ large, uniform shape makes it ideal for stuffing. Delicious grilled, they are perfect for shish kabobs. Peppers left on the plant will turn a beautiful, bright red, and have more vitamin C than an orange! Good container variety, and dependable performer even in short season climates.

Available in a 4” pot

Sweet Green Bell Peppers…$3

Type: Bell Pepper
Days to Maturity: 63 Days
Fruit Size:  3″ x 4″
Description:  Bonnie’s best hybrid sweet bell pepper! A heavy yielder of large fruits. A good all-round pepper for slicing, stuffing, and freezing. This bell produces lots of fresh bell peppers gradually over the growing season. Plants in our Alabama garden produce from June through October, yielding 30 or more peppers from each plant. (Your results will vary based on care and the length of your growing season.) This is a good-sized plant, so be prepared to stake if needed. Organic varieties are only available at retailers.

Available in a 4” pot

Italian Paprika Peppers…$3

 

Type: Sweet Pepper
Days to Maturity: 70 Days
Fruit Size:  6-7″
Description:  Sweet red paprika peppers- great for drying and making into paprika powder!

Available in a 4” pot

 

Cubanelle…$3

Type: Sweet Pepper/Mild Heat
Days to Maturity: 65 Days
Fruit Size: 6-8″
Description:  Also known as “Cuban pepper”, the Cubanelle is a variety of sweet pepper commonly used in Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican cuisine. Many cooks prefer it to bell types. Sweet Cubanelle peppers can some times be slightly hot, but with only a touch of heat. This 6-8-inch pepper is prized for its sweet, mild flesh, rich flavor, and pretty colors. The thin-walled pepper is especially suited for quick cooking and has a low water content. Best picked when yellow-green for use in roasting, stuffing, as a pizza topping, for frying, a substitute for Anaheim peppers, or in a yellow mole sauce, and is one of the traditional ingredients in sofrito. They can also be left to mature and harvested when bright orange-red. In the garden, in addition to their famed taste and colors, the Cubanelle peppers are also known for their unique, imperfectly curled, wrinkled, and twisted shapes–no two seem to ever be alike.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Ajvarski Sweet Pepper…$3

Type: Sweet Pepper
Days to Maturity: 80 Days
Fruit Size: 6-7″
Description:  Two-foot, stocky plants are covered in 6- to 7-inch, broadly wedgeshaped pods that ripen from green to deep, rich red. These peppers are incredibly fragrant and tasty. When you throw half a dozen on your grill, everybody in your neighborhood will smell them! These thick-fleshed traditional peppers are roasted on flat metal stoves, peeled, then ground into a traditional relish called ajvar, which is eaten spread on bread, often with sirenje, a local cheese similar to feta. Nearly every rural household puts up a supply of ajvar for winter eating. In autumn, North Macedonians flock to the markets in fertile valleys in the east to buy bushels of the best aromatic roasting peppers from the local villages. The original seed was a gift from the students in the villages of Kalugeritsa and Zleovo.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Corbaci Sweet Pepper…$3

Type: Sweet Pepper
Days to Maturity: 75 Days
Fruit Size: 10″
Description:  A unique and wonderful sweet pepper. The long 10-inch fruit is curved, twisted and very slender, like a Turkish sabre. This rare heirloom from Turkey has a very rich flavor, perfect for pickling or frying. One of the most productive of all peppers, out-yielding all others in tests by the University of California.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Txorixero Sweet Pepper…$3

Type: Sweet Pepper
Days to Maturity:
Fruit Size:
Description:  Pronounced (cho-dee-share-dow) A sweet frying pepper that is a traditional variety of the Basque people. This super rare and delicious pepper can be found growing across Europe’s Basque country; it is a key ingredient in Biscaya sauce and other delicious regional recipes. The thin-skinned, totally sweet peppers are traditionally strung into garlands and hung for later rehydration and use and can also be ground into paprika. Also excellent for fresh use, we love them raw in salads or blistered on the grill. This particular strain was brought to Boise, Idaho, over 50 years ago by Ben Goihiadia. We received the seed from Peaceful Belly Farms. In the early 1900s many Basques emigrated to Idaho for sheep herding jobs, and now Boise is a “little Basque country” of sorts.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Spicy Peppers

 

Rezha Macedonian Hot Pepper…$3

 

Type: Chile Pepper
Days to Maturity: 80 Days
Fruit Size:
Description: The name of this variety means “engraved.” Another local name, Vezeni Piperki, means “embroidered.” Both names refer to the curious lines on the skins of the tapering, long, thin peppers. The fruit, which ranges from mild to sometimes very pungent, is to be seen hanging in great clusters, drying in North Macedonian warm late autumn sun. This is an old traditional variety grown almost exclusively in small villages and not on a large scale. Our foundation seed was donated by school children from the villages of Kalugeritsa and Zleovo.

Available in a 4” pot

Thai Chili Hot Pepper…$3

 

Type: Chile Pepper
Days to Maturity: 70-90 Days
Fruit Size: 1-2″
Description: This hot little heirloom chili from Thailand is used in almost every Thai dish. The small, 1-inch pointed fruit is easy to dry and fantastic in both traditional and contemporary recipes. The ornamental plants are loaded with bright red peppers packed with pungent heat.

Available in a 4” pot

 

Summer and Winter Squash

 

Dark Green Zucchini Summer Squash…$3

Squash Variety: Summer Squash
Days to Maturity: 50
Fruit Size: 6-8″
Description:  Glossy black-green heirloom zucchini with creamy, white flesh is delicious however you prepare it. Sauté, fry or bake – you can’t go wrong! Plants have an open habit which makes for easy picking. Fruits are best picked when 6 to 8″ long.

Available in a 4” pot

Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash…$3

Squash Variety: Summer Squash
Days to Maturity: 58
Fruit Size: 4-5″
Description:  This traditional variety is well known for its buttery flavor and firm texture. Big plants are late to begin bearing, but then yield consistently over a long picking period. Best picked small, 4-5″ long. Larger fruits will have a bumpy appearance.

Available in a 4” pot

Butternut Squash…$3

Squash Variety:  Winter Squash
Days to Maturity: 85 Days
Fruit Size: 12-15″
Description: Fall and winter, this is a delicious butternut with improved fruit uniformity and increased yields. Interior is solid and dry. Pick young and use like summer squash or let mature to 6 lbs. Excellent for storing. Ready about 85 days after sowing.

Available in a 4” pot

Palermo White Zucchini Squash…$3

 

Squash Variety: Summer Squash
Days to Maturity: 45-55 Days
Fruit Size: 12-15″
Description:  The famed treasure of Sicilian cooking! A gourmet traditional heirloom from Palermo, Sicily, that is highly regarded across Italian cuisine. Fruit average 12-15 inches and are a unique sage green color with faint speckles. This buttery textured variety is instrumental in a number of dishes from zucchini parmesan to salads and pastas. We love to create tasty dishes of all kinds, playing on the nutty sweet flavor and tender texture. Wonderfully productive and flavorsome!

Available in a 4” pot

Eight Ball Zucchini Squash…$3

 

Squash Variety: Summer Squash
Days to Maturity: 55 Days
Fruit Size: 3-4″
Description:  This is an All America Selections winner! This was the first ball-shaped zucchini with a true zucchini color. The fruit have an attractive, shiny, speckled dark green exterior color with typical zucchini type flesh. Eight Ball is one of the earliest squash to mature in the field and good yields are noted on strong, open bush plants

Available in a 4” pot

 

Cucumbers

 

Space Master Cucumber…$3

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

Picklebush Cucumber…$3

Days to Maturity: 52 Days
Fruit Size: 4 1/2″
Description:  Burpee-bred Picklebush has unbelievably compact vines that get only 2 long. White-spined fruits have classic pickle look, deep green with paler stripes. Up to 4 1/2″ long, 1 1/2″ across at maturity, but use them at any size. Very productive and tolerant to powdery mildew and cucumber mosaic virus.

Available in a 4″ Pot

Armenian Cucumber…$3

Days to Maturity: 60 Days
Fruit Size: 1′-3′
Description:  Distinctive Armenian heirloom cucumbers are creamy, pale-green with long, ridged fruits that have a wonderfully crisp, juicy texture. These traditional home garden favorites are also called “Yard-long Cucumbers.” Bitter-free and crunchy with very thin skins, they have few seeds and never get pithy or hollow-hearted. Armenians cut up into decorative scalloped slices, so they are both ornamental and delicious. Plants are heavy yielders and thrive in hot summer areas.

Available in a 4″ Pot

Lemon Cucumber…$3

Days to Maturity: 65 Days
Fruit Size: 3-4″
Description:HEIRLOOM. Lemon yellow cucumbers are tender and sweet, excellent for salads and pickling.

Don’t be fooled by this heirloom cucumber’s unusual shape. These bright yellow balls are excellent for salads and pickling. They have a clean, crisp taste and are never bitter. Normal-sized vines yield heavily and for a long time.

 

Available in a 4″ pot

Mini Crisp Cucumber…$3

Days to Maturity: 50 Days
Fruit Size: 3-4″
Description:  High yielding plants are covered in small, uniform fruits that have very smooth skin and juicy, refreshing flesh. Harvest when fruit is finger sized. Great for throwing in a lunch box or taking in the car on a road trip.

 

Available in a 4″ pot

Ancash Market Cucumber…$3

Days to Maturity:
Fruit Size: 6″
Description: A Peruvian treasure that was collected in Chacas, Peru, by the late pepper historian Jean Andrews. This landrace traces its ancestry to cucumbers brought from Spain in the 1500s. It’s also known as Pepino Criollo Chacasino or Ancashino. It has been carefully selected for its resistance to pests and mildew. Grown in the cool climate of the high Andes, this cucumber is especially suited to cooler parts of the U.S. and will remain productive all season if grown on trellises. The cucumbers are best when harvested 6 inches long.

 

Available in a 4″ pot

China Jade Cucumber…$3

Days to Maturity:
Fruit Size:
Description:  Stunning jade-colored flesh and unmatched sweet flavor make this a superb snacking cucumber. A popular cucumber from northern China, it grows well both in the garden and in the greenhouse. The crop is believed to have been brought from western China to the east during the Han dynasty in 216 A.D. Cucumbers have long been selected and perfected in China for sweet, nutty gourmet flavor. This variety is an homage to those many years of natural breeding; the long, slender, thin-skinned fruit will develop without pollination, making a seedless and burpless cuke. In Chinese medicine the cucumber is used as a natural refrigerant in the intense heat of summer; the cooling effect is said to soothe heat-related ailments! A favorite in our trials; we just love the flavor and gemstone-colored flesh! Try growing this variety in a greenhouse without pollinators; the result is a tender and delectable burpless fruit without seeds.

 

Available in a 4″ pot

Jibai Shimoshirazu Cucumber…$3

Days to Maturity: 
Fruit Size: 6-8″
Description:  The sweetest cucumber we have tasted, this Japanese variety is a perfect snacking cucumber with no bitter flavor! Produces shorter, slightly thicker fruit than other Japanese varieties. Can be grown on the ground or on poles and is vigorous. Deep green fruit is about 7-8 inches long. Adapted to high temperature, humidity, and is disease and powdery mildew resistant.

 

Available in a 4″ pot

Beit Alpha Cucumber…$3

Days to Maturity: 55 Days
Fruit Size: 3-4″
Description:  A delicious, very sweet cucumber that is usually picked small and does not need peeling, as the skin is very tender. This variety is very popular in the Mediterranean, having been developed in Israel at a kibbutz farm, and it is now becoming popular with Americans because of the fruit’s fine flavor and high yields. This cuke is also burpless and has great shelf life. A parthenocarpic variety, you can grow in a greenhouse without pollinators. 

 

Available in a 4″ pot

 

Herbs

 

Cilantro…$3

Available in a 4” pot

Basil…$3

Available in a 4” pot

Chamomile...$3

Available in a 4” pot

Mint...$3

Available in a 4” pot

 

Lettuce/Greens

 

Perennial Kale…$3

Available in a  4” pot

 

Flowers 

 

French Marigolds…$3

Available in a 4” pot

Calendula, variety of colors…$3

Available in a 4” pot

 

Beans

 

Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod Green Beans

Days to Maturity: 50 Days
Description: Bush Snap Beans.  Delicious 6″ long pods are entirely stringless.  Early and high yielding.  No need for support.

Available in 6-Pack

Burpee’s Provider Green Beans

Days to Maturity: 50-60 Days
Description: Bush Snap Beans.  Straight 5-8″ long beans grow abundantly on 18″ tall plants suited to a range of conditions.  No need for support.

Available in 6-Pack

Golden Wax Improved Garden Beans

Days to Maturity: 55-60 Days
Description: Bush Wax Beans.  Heavy yields of delicious, buttery flavored, stringless pods grow 4-5″ long on early bush-type plants.

Available in 6-Pack

 

Asian String Beans

Days to Harvest:
Fruit Size:
Description:

Available in 4″ pot

 

 

Taiwan Yard-Long Beans

 

Available in 4″ pot

 

 

Chinese Red Noodle Beans

 

Available in 4″ pot

 

 

Eggplant

 

Black Beauty Eggplant…$3

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

Japanese Long Eggplant…$3

Days to Maturity: 70-80 Days
Fruit Size: 8-10″
Description: A widely used international food thought to have originated in Japan, eggplant is fast becoming a favorite in the U.S. This long, slender variety, not usually found in grocery stores, is flavorsome in countless recipes from Italy to China to Russia and beyond. Also called ‘Italian Long Purple’, this prolific heirloom will bring beautiful color to the garden and savory goodness to the table.

Available in a 4″ pot