Elk Grove Community Garden Spring Plant Sale 2024
Saturday, April 13th from 9AM to 1PMUPDATE!
Because of rain, we are taking pre-orders for curbside pick-up.
Email your orders to: plantsrdanzz4joy@gmail.com
Wait for confirmation before payment.
In addition to cash or checks, we can take:
Venmo: @ElkGrove-CommunityGarden
PayPal: Elk Grove Community Garden and Learning Center
When you arrive at the garden, please call us and we will bring your order to you!
(916) 818-9108
The Details:
Where: The Elk Grove Community Garden at 10025 Hampton Oak Drive, Elk Grove, CA 95624.
When: Saturday, April 13 from 9am to 1pm
Plants will be sold on a first come, first served basis.
Payment: Cash, Checks, Venmo or PayPal
The Garden will be accepting canned food donations for the Elk Grove Food Bank.
Tomatoes
Bushsteak Hybrid…$3
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
Roma...$3
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…$3
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
Rutgers Tomato...$3
Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity: 74 Days
Fruit Bearing: Determinate
Fruit Weight: 4-6oz
Description: HEIRLOOM. Its flavor, both for slicing and cooking, is still unequaled.
Available in a 4” pot
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
Pineapple Tomato...SOLD OUT!
Type: Heirloom
Days to Maturity: 80 Days
Fruit Bearing: Indeterminate
Fruit Weight: 1-2lbs
Description: Very large, up to 2 lbs each. The yellow fruit has red marbling through the flesh and is one of the most beautiful tomatoes we sell. The flavor is very sweet and fruity; good yields!
Available in a 4” pot
Veranda Red Cherry Tomato…$3
Type: Cherry
Days to Maturity: 55-60 Days
Fruit Bearing: Dwarf Determinate
Fruit Weight: 1oz
Description: This little powerhouse — a Burpee breeding breakthrough! — pumps out a huge and ongoing harvest.
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
Baxter Tomato…$3
Type: Cherry
Days to Maturity: 70-72 Days
Fruit Bearing: Determinate
Fruit Weight: 1oz
Description: A very early, red cherry tomato with remarkable weather tolerance and keeping quality. Vigorous and productive, yielding firm, crack resistant fruits around a week earlier than other open-pollinated cherries. Small tasty fruits are great used fresh in salads. Fruit set tolerant of adverse weather conditions. Bushy, determinate habit needs no staking or cages
Available in a 4” pot
Japanese Mandarin Cross Tomato- SOLD OUT!
Type: Slicing
Days to Maturity: 80 Days
Fruit Bearing: Determinate
Fruit Weight:
Description: Beautiful, golden-orange Mandarin Cross tomatoes have a wonderful creamy-tender texture and sweet, even flavor finish that just melts in your mouth. These gorgeous mid-season tomatoes are borne in abundance and ripen like jewels on strong indeterminate vines whose dense foliage provides a good canopy against sun scald. A plateful of their glowing juicy wedges, the color of ripe persimmons, is a picture of delicious beauty. Slices of Mandarin Cross garnished with basil will take you to tomato heaven.
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
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
- Sweet Banana Peppers…SOLD OUT!!
Type: Sweet Pepper
Days to Maturity: 75 Days
Fruit Size: 4-8″
Description: Named for its banana-like shape, this variety bears sweet, mild banana peppers that mature from yellow, to orange, and then to crimson red. Plants fruit prolifically, easily producing up to 25 to 30 pods per plant. Banana peppers are great for frying and pickling, and are an excellent choice for making pepper rings for sandwiches
Available in a 4” pot
Spicy Peppers
Anaheim Pepper..SOLD OUT!!
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…SOLD OUT
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
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…SOLD OUT!
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
Calabacita Summer Squash…SOLD OUT!!
Squash Variety: Summer Squash
Days to Maturity: 48
Fruit Size: 5-6″
Description: Mexican gray zucchini.
Upright plants with an open habit and moderate spines for ease of harvest. Strong disease resistance. Produces early, heavy yields of gray-green, slightly bulbous fruits with remarkable uniformity, great texture, and a refined flavor profile.
Available in a 4” pot
Halloween Pumpkin Blend…$3
Squash Variety: Winter Squash
Days to Maturity: 110
Fruit Size: Varies
Description: Either orange Jack-O-Lantern and White Casper Pumpkin plants.
Available in a 4” pot
Spaghetti Squash..SOLD OUT
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
Acorn Squash…$3
Squash Variety: Winter Squash
Days to Maturity: 95 Days
Fruit Size: 1.5-2.5lbs
Description: A high-yielding acorn that keeps its integrity in storage for longer than other standard varieties, resulting in better marketability and flavor throughout the season. Night Shift maintains its intense, dark color and superior eating quality through the winter holidays and beyond! An ideal choice when a vining habit is preferred for your growing system, or if you find bush-type acorns lacking in flavor. Vigorous vines provide excellent cover and hold up well under disease pressure. Avg. weight: 1 1/2–2 1/2 lb.
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
Cucumbers
Space Master Cucumber…SOLD OUT!!
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
Heirloom Boston Pickling Cucumber…SOLD OUT!
Days to Maturity: 55 Days
Fruit Size: 3-7″
Description: Heirloom. A favorite of gardeners for high yields of short cukes with solid flesh. Cucumbers are thin-skinned, straight with full ends, and a nice green color. Vines bear continuously. Flesh is crisp and very receptive to pickling spices. Great for any pickling recipe, whether sweets or dills. May be harvested at sizes from 3 to 7 inches, depending on your pickling needs. Plants resist scab and are tolerant to cucumber mosaic.
Available in a 4″ Pot
Lemon Cucumber..SOLD OUT!
Days to Maturity: 65 Days
Fruit Size: 3-4″
Description:HEIRLOOM. Lemon yellow cucumbers are tender and sweet, excellent for salads and pickling.
Available in a 4″ pot
Herbs
Mammoth Dill…$3
Available in a 4” pot
Berries and Cream Mint…$3
Available in a 4” pot
Mint…$3
Available in a 4” pot
Basil Genovese…$3
Available in a 4” pot
Parsley, Curled…$3
Available in a 4” pot
Pineapple Sage…SOLD OUT!
Unlike traditional sage, pineapple sage leaves have a pineapple scent. Furether into the season, the plant produces loads of hot pink flowers that polinators go crazy for!
Available in a 4” pot
Lettuce/Greens
Perennial Kale…$3
Available in a 4” pot
Flowers
Dwarf French Marigolds…$3
Available in a 4” pot
Calendula, variety of colors…$3
Available in a 4” pot
Beans
French Bush Beans…SOLD OUT!
Days to Maturity: 56 Days
Fruit Size: 5-6″ pods
Description: The delicious, rich flavor of these thin, straight, tender beans is unlike any other. Easy to grow, they reach their flavor peak at 5-7″ long and a mere 3/8″ wide. Dark green pods are streaked with purple. Plants yield early and heavily but need no support.
Available in 4″ pot
Royal Burgundy Bush Beans…SOLD OUT
Days to Maturity: 6-72 Days
Fruit Size: 7-10″ pods
Description: This treasured heirloom pole bean is a crisp, flavorful treat. Displaying lavender flowers against the bright green leaves with purple veins and stems, the very productive 6-8 vines are highly ornamental. When cooked, the rich purple 7-10″ pods turn bright green.
Available in 4″ pot
Peas
Landreth Bush Beans…SOLD OUT!!
Days to Maturity: 55 Days
Fruit Size: 5″ Pods
Description: This meaty variety debuted in 1885. It is a flavorful, stringless bean and boasts heavy yields. The pods are medium green in color and a little over 5 inches long. The seeds are a rich chocolate or coffee brown. D. Landreth Seed Co., one of the oldest of American seed houses, proudly proclaimed it as a favorite: “one of the finest pod varieties for the home garden, market garden and canner.”
Available in a 4″ pot
Blue Bantam Peas…$3
Days to Maturity: 77-80 Days
Fruit Size: 3-4″ Pods
Description: This heirloom pea variety won over gardeners with its delicious flavor, earliness, quality, and bountiful production. Compact vines bear bushels of 4” long blue-green pods, loaded with eight berries per pod. Peas packed with vitamins A and C and folate.
Available in a 4″ pot
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
Large Succulent Pot…$5
Small Succulent Pot…$3
(for pre-order, please specify which one!)
Large Iris Pot…$5
Small Iris Pot…$3