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Tomatoes - everyone's favorite to grow in the garden because there is nothing like a fresh pick tomato. 


Big League - 47 days - Red Beefsteak size type, deep red, flavorful, tasty with nice texture. Determinate  early bearing with nice sized 1 pound fruit, 48" tall that benefit from support.  Great for Large Patio Containers.  

​Patio Choice Yellow - 50 days- Yellow Cherry - on short 18" vine, perfect for 10" pot or hanging basket. determinate.  Can even be dried ( dehydrated)

Bush Early Girl - 54 day compact bush version of Early Girl setting fruit early as well. 4" fruits, Determinate

Early Doll - 55 day, bright red 4-5 oz. globe shaped fruits with outstanding flavor and early maturity.  Determinate

Fantastico -60 days grape tomato, tolerant to late blight, 15" tall making it perfect for patio container or hanging basket. SOLD OUT 

Sun Sugar - 62 days -sweet golden cherry, thin skinned, crack resistant fruits. Indeterminate

Little Sicily - 63 days compact and perfect for patios and containers, 3-4 oz round fruit on 2 ft tall mounded, Determinate

Park's Whopper CR improved - 65 days Hybrid VFFNT - Standby for over 35 years.  12 oz. large 4" fruit.  full of flavor,with improved disease resistance.  Indeterminate. 

Jet Star - 70 days - Indeterminate, large fruits, mild taste even ripening all the way through.  Indeterminate. 

Mountain Merit - 75 days  high resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus, late blight and even some resistance to early blight. PLUS a nice all around tomato perfect for slicing AND sandwiches.  Deep red, firm 10 - 12 oz. fruits that are flavorful, slightly oblate, smooth, uniform and crack-resistant.  Determinate BUT benefits from support. ​

Rutgers - 75 days,  developed at Rutgers in the 1920's, known for great flavor.  Large 6-8 oz solid, meaty, deep red fruits, perfect for canning as well as salads.  Indeterminate. 

La Roma III - 75 days paste type- hybrid of Italian classic Roma tomato

Big Beef Plus - 75 days sweet red   9-16 oz fruit.  Indeterminate
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Horizon - 75 days Heirloom beefsteak type, thick, meaty , juicy and sweet, slightly heart-shaped fruits. Indeterminate. 

Heirloom Marriage Big Brandy -75-80 days Brandy wine and Big Dwarf Cross, 12-15 ounce husky tomato with fewer blemishes than the original Brandywine. Indeterminate. ​
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Cherokee Purple - 80 days - Tennessee heirloom from the Cherokees.  12-16 oz. fruit  with a mocha colored skin and a purple brick red interior. Indeterminate. 








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PEPPERS -  from sweet to hot. 

Lady Bell - 70 days - green to red medium sized bell pepper
 
New Ace - 61 days - green to red 4 lobed fruit,

Candy Cane Red - 50 days a snack pepper with dolly striped fruits against uniquely variegated foliage.  elongated bell shaped fruits measure about 3-4" long.  compact plants are ideal in containers. 

Sweet Banana - 68 days sweet thick walled, waxy-flesh  pepper, pale green to yellow/orange  and then red. 

Biscayne - 64 days - Cubanelle type pepper perfect for frying,
 
Goliath Jalapeño - 67 days - large sized 4" jalapeño ripens shiny green to bright red. Nice for gripping, slicing stuffing, canning,.SOLD OUT

Time Bomb - 65 days - hybrid hot cherry that's larger than older strains,  ideal for pickling and canning
 
Chiltepin or Birdseye - 90 days  tiny, pea-shaped red pepper is one of the world’s hottest! Compact 10" plant yields a bounty of 1/2" round red hot peppers.  

Goliath Griller - 70 days. The perfect amount of heat for a hot pepper! Mild enough to eat raw if you want just a bit of heat, but robust enough to be the ideal variety to roast or grill. Smooth fruits measure about 1½-in. wide by 5 to 7-in. long and mature green to dark red.. 

Ancho Gigantia - 65 days -Poblano pepper - medium hot flavor with a smoky yet sweet flavor.  Once ripened this paper can be dried as ancho chilies.

Thai Hot -40 days. Compact, 8-in. plants with 1 1/2-in., extra-hot peppers that mature from a deep green to red. Makes a lovely massed bedding, with high drought tolerance. Popular in Asian dishes and chili.
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Eggplant 
  • Nadia
  • Patio Baby 

Cucumber
  •     Slice More - burpless 
  •     Pic A Bushel - semi bush pickling 
  • *     Parisian - gherkins, can be container grown
  • *     Saladmore Bush - multipurpose, semi bush
  •     Marketmore - straight dark green 9” fruits
Summer Squash
  • Black Beauty - Zucchini dark skin
  • * Spineless Beauty - Zucchini                 lighter green with spindles stems
  • Multi Pik - Yellow Squash
  • * Bossa Nova - dark and light green mottled skin, compact plants, caserta type fruits
* LIMITED QUANTITIES

​Melons

*Mini Love - semi seedless, 7-9# watermelon
  • *Sugar Baby - 7-9# watermelon
  • Earli Dew - lime green flesh 2-3# fruit cantaloupe
  • Tasty Bites - 1# fruit with a tropical taste cantaloupe
  • Jenny Lind - Heirloom cantaloupe type 1-2# fruit
  • Honey Rock - Heirloom muskmelon 3-4 # fruit
* LIMITED QUANTITIES

Winter Squash
  • Sugaretti - semi bush, 1# oval fruit
  • Table Ace - acorn, semi bush 2# fruit
  • Autumn Frost - butternut flavor,    3-4# fruit, good storer
  • Delicata - nutty sweet potato flavor, semi bush, 1-2# oval fruits
  • Mashed Potatoes - all white acorn with a mashed potato flavor 1-2# fruit
  • Kabocha Sunshine - similar to buttercup, bright orange flesh. 3-4# globe shaped fruits
  • Honey Nut - small size butternut fruit
BEANS - something I learned last year.  You can freeze unblanched beans without loss of flavor.  I DO use a vacuum sealer and getting all the air out makes a huge difference. 
6 pak - $4.00

  • Royal Burgundy - purple pods turn green when cooked
  • Amethyst - purple pods
  • Mascotte - French bean that can be grown in container              as well as garden
  • Fortex - Green French Filet Pole type
  • Pencil Pod Black Wax - yellow bean
  • Slenderette - green, slender and stringless
  • Jade - dark green, long straight, stringless pods
  • Goldilocks - bright yellow beans, 
  • Kentucky Wonder - pole bean - in 4 pak
  • Orient Wonder - yard long bean - in 4 pak
PEAS
  • Snap - Sugar Snap, Sugar Sprint Snap, 
  • Snow Pea - Golden Sweet, Mammoth Melting Sugar
  • & Dwarf White Sugar
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