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Asparagus is the earliest vegetable harvested fresh from the garden each spring. A productive bed of asparagus can last 15 years or longer, so choose your location carefully before planting. Asparagus likes sun and loose, well-drained soil that is rich in organic material. Enrich the soil with rotted leaves, compost, or manure. Water weekly if it doesn’t rain and don’t cut away any asparagus shoots the first year. Allow the foliage to grow yellow and die on its own.
If you aren’t a spinach lover, fresh from the garden spinach will change your mind. Mild, tender, and delicious use it in salads, make Eggs Florentine or creamed spinach. Cooked or raw, the dark green leaves of spinach are a super source of vitamins, minerals, and cancer-fighting compounds.
The Pencil Pod Black Wax bean is a highly productive and long-standing bush bean. Also known as Eastern Black Wax,” these beans are bushy, vigorous, and resistant to rust and mosaic virus.”
Developed from the famous vining Blue Lake, this easier-to-pick version produces over a longer season than other bush beans and brings back the meatiness, color, and flavor of the good old days. Bush Blue Lake 274 green bean seeds are white and slow to develop, maintaining a long, smooth pod of delicious quality.
Kentucky Wonder is a brown-seeded bean noted for its exceptional flavor and its heavy crops of 9 green pods, borne in clusters. Pods are oval, thick, gently curved, meaty, and tender, and they’re stringless when young. Pole beans yield much longer than bush beans, right up to frost.”
Easy to manage in the garden, the Beefsteak tomato has a uniform shoulder color and consistently good taste. Can put up with hot, dry conditions. Grow staked, cages or as a bush type.
Beefsteak-type, deep red, and good-flavored, this late tomato has important disease resistant qualities. Tolerant of cracking and peeling. Can be staked.
Easy to manage in the garden, the Beefsteak tomato has a uniform shoulder color and consistently good taste. Can put up with hot, dry conditions. Grow staked, cages, or as a bush type.
Our most popular all-around hybrid tomato. This tomato is red and meaty. It produces high yield and has large leaves to protect the fruit from sun scald injury.
A Beefmaster type with twice the yields. It bears attractive, extra-large fruit. Alternaria and Stemphylium resistant. Disease tolerant. May need staking.
When Big Boy hybrid tomato debuted in 1949, its incredible productivity and gorgeous, perfect, large red fruit made it an instant hit. What’s kept Big Boy tomato a best-selling tomato all these years is the wonderful aroma and rich flavor.
Known for producing large heads and long stalks, this longtime favorite is excellent for cooking fresh or freezing. The 4-6 dark blue-green heads are arrayed with side shoots. Developed to withstand cold, it performs outstandingly in the fall.”
These very early uniform plants with 6-7 heads are also resistant to heat and disease. After center head is cut, side shoots are produced. Vitamin-rich broccoli is delicious fresh or frozen.
This vegetable has broccoli-like florets on long, thin stems, but is actually related to the turnip. It is grown for its tasty, mustard-like leaves and flower stalks, rather than the florets, which stay small.
This early maturing cabbage is ideal in size and shape. Stems and core are short, and interior quality of the head is good. Popular for salads and sauerkraut. Try in stir fry!
This early maturing cabbage is ideal in size and shape. Stems and core are short and interior quality of the head is good. Popular for salads and sauerkraut. Try in stir fry!!
Sweet, flavorful heads resist disease. Cool-weather crop.
This hybrid produces deep-red medium-sized heads that are solid and well-filled. Enjoy our popular early red heading cabbage for salads, cooking, or red kraut.
A sweet-tasting melon ideal for the home vegetable garden. Plant in mounds in groups of 3 plants, allowing 1′ between each plant. Allow 4-6 between each mound. Perfect for use in fruit salad or eaten on its own.
7-10 pure white heads with domed solid kurd. Self-blanching, tolerates heat and cold stress.
Nicely rounded, pure white heads up to 8 across. To preserve white heads, gather outer leaves by pulling over the head and tying with string. Superb for cooking, freezing, and serving raw.
Amish variety established in 1885. This tomato produces a heavy yield of boat-shaped, beefsteak fruits. Its fruit is pink-red in color and has a rich, creamy aftertaste.
Both stalk and heart are tender, solid, and free from strings. Thin ribbed stalks blanche to a clear waxen yellow. Enjoy as a low-calorie treat. Great in soups, salads, and casseroles.
Please contact us for pricing details. Produces high yields of smooth skinned spuds with attractive creamy white flesh. Makes delicious chips and are outstanding for roasting and mashing. Produces a very high number of tubers.
Please contact us for pricing details. Small finger-shaped potato, great for roasting and grilling. Good in soups and stews.
Please contact us for pricing details. Oblong, long smooth tubers, with extremely white flesh, and a relatively high yield. Medium variety.
Please contact us for pricing details. Highly resistant to early and late blight and tobacco mosaic, perfect for frying and baking. Does not store well. Medium to late variety.
Please contact us for pricing details. An early, great-tasting, white-fleshed potato. Great for baking or boiling, stores well. Early variety.
Please contact us for pricing details. Produces a huge crop in a hurry. Oblong, shallow eyed potatoes are crisp, delicious, and easy to peel. Great for boiling. Extra early variety.
Please contact us for pricing details. Most popular red all-purpose potato with very sweet white flesh. Thin skin makes a great keeper. Medium to late variety.
Please contact us for pricing details. An early, great-tasting, large, yellow-fleshed potato. Great for baking or mashing with a delicious butter flavor. Stores well. Early to medium variety.
An All American Winner. This is an excellent home garden tomato. It is crack-free, highly productive under a wide range of growing conditions. Also, this hybrid is very disease resistant.
Georgia collards are prized for their sweet, cabbage-like flavor. Leaves are ruffled and blue-green and taste best when young. Rich in vitamins and minerals. Grows best in full sun, but will tolerate partial shade and even appreciates it in spring in hot climates. Withstands cold weather; frost makes leaves sweet. Great for fall.
This deliciously sweet bi-color corn is as pretty on the table as it is on the stalk. The ears of corn are a nice mix of white and yellow kernels and measure 8.5 long with 14-18 rows of kernels. This is a good variety for the home garden and is best planted in double rows to achieve optimum pollination. With an extended harvest time and a great sugar-enhanced taste, it is sure to be a garden favorite.”
This sweet corn lives up to its name—it’s Fantastic! It’s the sweetest bi-color corn there is. It’s tender and full of rich corn flavor. 6′ tall plants produce large 8 ears filled with 16-18 straight well-filled rows of bicolored kernels that almost melt in your mouth. The tight husk protects the ear until it is ready to eat. Fantastic Sweet Corn is a delicious early to midsummer treat.”
Peaches and Cream a summer roadside stand favorite! A delicious, gourmet, bi-color sweet corn, yellow and white kernels are on ears averaging 8 in length. A great choice for the home garden as it matures fairly early.”
Super Sweet is a real sweet treat. The seed kernels are smaller, lighter in weight, and have a shrunken appearance. The texture is crispy rather than creamy. The shrunken kernels greatly increase the sweetness and slow the conversion of starch. Because of the slower conversion of sugars to starch after harvest, it can be stored 7-10 days. Adequate soil moisture is critical for plants to form tassels, silks, and to develop ears. Ears should be ready to harvest about 3 weeks after silk emergence.
This is a space-saving form of the favorite Burpless Hybrid. Short vines grow about 2′ long, long enough to trellis if desired. Fruit is straight and cylindrical for easy slicing. Eat these delicious cukes fresh, pickled, or sliced into salads. Excellent for small gardens and containers.
Bush Pickle is great if you want to make pickles but have limited space. Instead of a sprawling vine, these cucumbers are produced on compact, bushy plants making them especially good for small gardens or containers. The plants measure only 3′ in diameter at maturity, yet they produce a large crop of 4-5 pickles. Pick fruit often and for best flavor do not permit them to grow too large. Pick pickles smaller for gherkins. The cool mild flavor of these pickles also makes them a good choice for slicing and using in salads.”
A smoother skinned medium-sized cucumber with sweet, crisp flesh. Ideal for the home vegetable garden.
Pick a peck of delicious pickles! Making pickles at home is fun and easy with Chef Jeff’s Homemade Pickles. This vigorous plant produces a good crop of pickling-type cucumbers with interiors that are solid and crisp. It is a great choice to make the best crunchy pickles that you have ever tasted. The plants show excellent resistance to diseases and produce heavily over a long season.
An easy-to-grow variety with an abundance of large, dark green fruit that is great for pickling.
Heirloom. Named for its perfectly straight, 8 long fruit, this slicing cucumber has long been prized for its high quality, flavor, and even, deep green color. Well-adapted throughout the US. Vigorous, productive vines that benefit from trellising.”
Great big, top quality bush cucumbers are produced on long-lasting vines throughout summer. Tender, sweet, crisp, and virtually seedless. Perfect for salads and superb on sandwiches! Water well in warm weather.
Especially bred as a luscious sandwich tomato…solid, meaty slices with just the right sweetness. High yields of large fruit, bigger than Early Girl and earlier than Better Boy. Outstanding performer.
A great variety for those who prefer a dependable, larger-fruited, and traditional purple eggplant. Black Beauty produces very attractive 1-3 pound fruit that keeps well and has excellent flavor. This variety has been a popular favorite for 100 years. Create dishes with an international flair with eggplant. For an Italian style dish dip sliced eggplant in flour and fry in olive oil, stir-frying with bean sprouts, peppers, and tomatoes, and eggplant goes Asian. Start harvesting when the eggplants are 4-5 long. The skin should be shiny; dull skin is a sign that the eggplant is overripe. Chef Jeff’s Tip: Use a sharp knife and cut the eggplant from the plant, leaving at least 1″ of stem attached to the fruit.”
The earliness of this tomato makes this the home gardener’s first and best choice for the most excellent early slicing tomato. It is also very delicious, which makes it even more tempting.
Early-yielding plants provide fruit all season long. This extra-juicy yet firm fruit is perfect for summer picnics.
One of our most tender kale varieties, it’s ideal for raw kale salads and soups. Leaves are very dark blue-green and heavily savoyed, sweetening with each frost. Also known as Dinosaur or Tuscan kale. Exceptionally large, vigorous, and cold-tolerant. Improved vigor, yield, and hardiness.
The first lemon yellow, not golden, tomato variety, and still one of the best. Extremely vigorous plants produce large harvests of attractive fruit. Flavor is outstanding, mild and sweet yet tangy and definitely not bland.
Salsa lovers, your tomato is here. You can chop this tomato into tiny cubes that remain perfectly firm and solid yet also sweet. Large, plum-shaped, and dripless, Fresh Salsa is all meat—ideal for tasty salsas, bruschettas, and light Italian sauces.
Anaheim or New Mexican peppers are medium-hot peppers that are a major feature of Southwestern cooking. The mildly pungent fruit varies in color from light green to dark green to red. This tapered pepper grows to between 6-10 long and 1-2″ around. The mature red peppers tend to be hotter than the green. Use these peppers fresh or dry to make decorative pepper chains to use as wall hangings.”
5-6 tapered fruit with thin walls. Canary yellow turns bright red when mature. This pepper is good fresh or dried.”
Mildly hot, banana-shaped peppers are 6 long by 2″ wide. Best flavor when eaten in its ripe yellow state. Use fried, pickled, or fresh in salads. Plant in full sun.”
The best chili pepper for the North. Huge tapered fruits are 7-10 long with thick meaty mildly hot flesh.”
The hottest pepper in the world! Improved version of habanero, it ripens to a beautiful deep red and is even hotter, with the same distinctive taste. Productive 30 plants. 1.5×1″ fruit.”
This highly productive plant produces cone-shaped fruit with a spicy flavor that is perfect peppers for Homemade Red Pepper Flakes. Homemade flakes typically have a richer color and stronger taste than the store-bought version. Dry this pepper variety alone or mix with several of your favorite mild peppers. Create your own special family blend that can be used in virtually all your recipes or as a topping for pizza or pasta. Make it hotter or milder starting with this great spicy pepper. Dry peppers in oven or food dehydrator until brittle before crushing. Crush with rolling pin or in a food processor or coffee grinder.
CAUTION: INSANELY HOT! Ghost pepper is also known as Bhut Jolokia” and is over 1 million Scoville units hot and three times hotter than the habanero. These orange to red cone-shaped peppers are 1-2″ wide and 2-3″ long on tall plants. Use caution when touching these peppers, wear gloves to protect your hands from the burn when planting, harvesting, and using. Throw the gloves away after using.”
Habanero peppers are one of the hottest and most pungent peppers available! The thin-walled, 1.5 fruits wrinkle and turn from green to orange at maturity. I like to use these chili peppers in stir-fries, for grilling, or to add heat and spice to my favorite cooked dishes. They are also used in sauces, stews, marinades, and salsas.
Robustly flavored, very hot, thick-walled. Peppers grow 3 long with rounded tips. Excellent flavor fresh or picked.”
Bushy, pendant-type plants with dark green leaves grow to 3′ and bear fruit until frost. Medium-sized, 4 long, and dark green with a mild to medium heat level. These peppers are superb roasted and peeled, then preserved by canning or freezing. For best results, feed with a liquid or slow-release fertilizer.”
Smaller and hotter than the well-known jalapeno! Bushy plants with abundant, 2 long, bullet-shaped fruits. Thin skin, medium-thin walls, and crisp, biting-hot flavor, make this pepper a favorite in fresh salsas or pickled as a snack. These hot peppers also freeze well- superb in flavoring guacamole and chili. For best results, feed with a liquid or slow-release fertilizer.”
This is the fiery hot pepper that has made Tabasco sauce famous! The light yellow-green peppers turn red when mature and grow on tall plants. It is the only chili variety whose fruits are juicy and not dry on the inside. Tabasco sauce is made from this pepper, vinegar, and salt and adds zest to numerous dishes and is an essential ingredient in Bloody Mary cocktails. This plant is resistant to tobacco mosaic virus. The heat of this pepper ranges from 30,000 to 50,000 on the Scoville scale. Tabasco Peppers grow equally well in the garden or in pots on your sunny deck or patio.
