Hi everyone I just wanted to let you know that I will not be selling garden starts this year due to some remodeling going on at the house and the water shut off to the greenhouse at this time.
Peppers
Sunbright Bell Pepper
The Orange Sun pepper plant is a prolific and vigorous plant that will produce heavy yields of orange peppers growing to 4 -5" long. You can harvest at both stages to boost production and give your meals some colors, but we recommend waiting until they are orange for their sweeter flavors! The 4-lobed pepper will ripen from green to a vibrant, striking golden-orange color that looks just like the sun.
Available in Orange, Red, and Yellow These beautiful, mini-sized peppers are remarkably sweet and flavorful. They are delicious sautéed, as an addition to salads and, of course, perfect for a healthy snack. All three varieties have tall, strong plants that yield well for snack-type peppers.
Pepperoncini Italian peppers have thin sweet flesh excellent for pickling. They are 3-5” long and .75-1.5” wide. Bushes are relatively small and grow 30” tall.
I have been getting a lot of questions about the different types of cucumbers I have available this year. From snacking cucumber to pickling cucumbers I have some good options.
To help you decide on which cucumber fits your needs the best I have included descriptions of the different types of cucumbers here.
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Blacktail Watermelon
A wonderful, sweet, easy-to-grow variety that matures early and ripens 8-12” melons for months through the late summer. Great icebox variety, with a few whoppers! Open-pollinated.
Vigorous vines produce oval-shaped melons weighing up to 10 lbs. The salmon-colored flesh is sweet and delicious! Sow seeds in hills 4-6" apart. Allow your melons to ripen on the vine. Fruits are usually ripe when they smell aromatic and when stems start to crack.
A pretty, light green melon with dark stripes, Crimson Sweet is famous for its high sugar content and great flavor. Seeds are small and dark. Give vines plenty of room to run.
Delicious, firm flesh is rich with antioxidants. To save space, plant 1 foot apart at the base of a trellis where vines can climb.
This melon variety produces compact 3-4 lbs fruits that are early to mature in just 80 days! Honey Rock's flesh is a tender salmon-orange hue with a delicate sweet taste. This small melon is a good size for an early melon.
These oblong watermelons have a light green base with dark green stripes. This variety weighs 25 pounds or more when mature.
Its flavor is in its name as Sugar Baby is nice and sweet — just like sugar! This fruit grows to about 8 pounds, which is just the right size for your refrigerator.
Variegated honeydew.
Unique, personal-size, and an excellent specialty item for farmers' markets and restaurants. Melons avg. 2 lb. with firm texture and sweet flavor.
Squash
Grown on a smaller bush instead of vines. able King Bush Acorn squash is a winter squash. Plant forms a vigorous and compact bush plant that produces 5-8 squash per season. This is the best alternative to Honey Bear Hybrid Winter Squash. Table King is the perfect winter squash choice if you are short on space. Flavor just keeps getting better in storage.
Fruits can get 4 feet long and 1 foot across and weight 70 pounds. Smooth pink-orange skin with sweet yellow/orange, fine-grained flesh
This early and prolific heirloom variety has been exceedingly popular for its very dark green skin and creamy white flesh. You know what they say about zucchini, "plant it and stand back." The fast-growing plants are very easy to grow and will continue to produce abundantly through summer if kept picked. Use in soups, salads, and casseroles. Great sliced thin for dips, battered and fried, or in veggie lasagna. Freezes well. Harvest while skins are still tender; pick really small for "baby zucchini."
A butternut squash grown on a bush instead of vines
grown on vines. This variety, Waltham Butternut, has a hard, yellow to tan exterior but delicious sweet, orange flesh inside. Exceptional quality, no stringiness. This long-lasting squash stores all winter.
When this long green squash is mature it can be up to 10-12" in length! Ideal for multiple cooking dishes and baked goods such as cakes, breads and muffins. A summer squash, this green zucchini is a delight in the kitchen.
A favorite winter variety for its exquisitely sweet, single or double serving fruits, borne prolifically on dainty plants that don't overrun the garden like some whopping varieties. Skins can be left on when dicing or cutting rings if desired--pairs great with taters in a roasting pan!
Golden Zucchini
Heirloom zucchini blazes with bright-golden color and a delicious flavor. Fruits are medium-long, slender, and cylindrical in shape. Garden Hint: Fruits are best-tasting when 6–8" long. Cultivate or mulch to control weeds. Fertilize once fruits form to increase yield.
This squash produces plenty of medium-sized, 3–4 lb. oblong fruits. Flesh can be served up like spaghetti—an immediate hit with kids. CULINARY HINT: Slice fruit lengthwise, remove seeds, brush with olive oil and season with salt and pepper, roast face down until flesh fluffs out of shell with a fork for spaghetti-like appearance. Serve with marinara sauce or season to taste. Can be stored several months in a cool, dry place.
Pumpkins
Adorable miniature pumpkins—just 3" across and 2" high—are Halloween-ready and happy-making fall/winter decorations. Plants produces six or seven mini pumpkin masterpieces that kids love at first sight.
We have an exciting treat to offer this year. Katie's older sister is selling homemade strawberry freezer jam to earn money for college.
$6 per 8 oz jar.
If you would like to order any jam and want to pick it up at the same time as the plants let us know so we reserve jam for you. Jam is also available to pick up now if you don't want to wait till mid March.
*Disclaimer -We do not own the pictures used for these post, they have just been added to help you in your selection for the types of tomato plants Katie has available this season. Many of the pictures and plant descriptions have come from https://ferrymorse.com and https://www.burpee.com, Johnnyseeds.com, and www.trueleafmarket.com
