.
This extremely old variety makes a vigorous plant, which bears
enormous numbers of bright yellow, bite-sized fruit. The flavor is
deliciously tangy. Perfect for summer party hors d'oeuvres.
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Showing posts with label seedlings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seedlings. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Greenhouse interior
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
The 2012 growing season has sprouted!
Monday, May 3, 2010
Plant orders going out!
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The first of the vegetable plant preorders are going out this week!
It's hard to believe the time is here already.
For those who have preordered plants, thank you very much for your order! I look forward to seeing you soon when you receive your plants.
If you haven't ordered yet, I'm still accepting preorders! You can view the available plants here: http://all-natural-mama.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-vegetable-plants-for-sale.html
Or you can attend the plant sale at my home on Saturday, May 15 from 9-12 am (garage sale format).
Thanks for visiting the All-Natural Mama blog, home to Wishful Acres Organic Farm.
The first of the vegetable plant preorders are going out this week!
It's hard to believe the time is here already.
For those who have preordered plants, thank you very much for your order! I look forward to seeing you soon when you receive your plants.
If you haven't ordered yet, I'm still accepting preorders! You can view the available plants here: http://all-natural-mama.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-vegetable-plants-for-sale.html
Or you can attend the plant sale at my home on Saturday, May 15 from 9-12 am (garage sale format).
Thanks for visiting the All-Natural Mama blog, home to Wishful Acres Organic Farm.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Garden plants are engulfing my house. Pics of the tomato plants & more...!
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I know I haven't posted pictures of my seedlings lately. I was in a funk and took a 2-week break from blogging, plus spring planting season is here, so I've been more focused on planting outdoors.
I now have close to 2,000 plants growing under lights indoors, waiting until last frost (mid-May) to be sold or planted into my own garden plot at the farm. Last year, I sold off most plants and ended up planting about 120 tomatoes and 100 pepper plants at my own plot. I think it will probably be about the same this year.
Here are the giant tomato plants, started in February, in large pots to accommodate large size. They've gotten so big I had to move them to the top shelf, where they have much more room, to grow all the way to the ceiling!
Anyone care for some sweet bell peppers? These were planted in early March, not intended to get too big - they will probably be about 4 inches tall when ready to plant out. The small size of the cells only allows their roots to get so big. I do have more peppers that are planted in large cups, so those will get larger.
Anyone care for some eggplant? Yum!
How about some basil?
Thought I'd show you the small-potted tomatoes that were planted in early March. These will probably be about 6 inches tall when ready.
It won't be long now!
Thanks for visiting the All Natural Mama blog, home to Wishful Acres Organic Farm!
I know I haven't posted pictures of my seedlings lately. I was in a funk and took a 2-week break from blogging, plus spring planting season is here, so I've been more focused on planting outdoors.
I now have close to 2,000 plants growing under lights indoors, waiting until last frost (mid-May) to be sold or planted into my own garden plot at the farm. Last year, I sold off most plants and ended up planting about 120 tomatoes and 100 pepper plants at my own plot. I think it will probably be about the same this year.
Here are the giant tomato plants, started in February, in large pots to accommodate large size. They've gotten so big I had to move them to the top shelf, where they have much more room, to grow all the way to the ceiling!
Anyone care for some sweet bell peppers? These were planted in early March, not intended to get too big - they will probably be about 4 inches tall when ready to plant out. The small size of the cells only allows their roots to get so big. I do have more peppers that are planted in large cups, so those will get larger.
Anyone care for some eggplant? Yum!
How about some basil?
Thought I'd show you the small-potted tomatoes that were planted in early March. These will probably be about 6 inches tall when ready.
Thanks for visiting the All Natural Mama blog, home to Wishful Acres Organic Farm!
Monday, March 1, 2010
My seedlings have sprouted!
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These are a few of my "Black Beauty" variety Eggplant seedlings. I planted these seeds back around February 5 in large pots. They took over 2 weeks to sprout, but are doing well now. The "Rosa Bianca" variety Eggplant haven't sprouted yet, and they were planted on the same day. I read that they take approximately 3 weeks to sprout, so I'm trying not to worry about it yet, but (((wow))) they take a long time to appear!
The boys have been "helping" me plant (read: making a big mess), but it's worth the mess to teach them how to grow the seeds. I'm worrying that maybe the Rosa Bianca eggplant seeds got planted too deep, but that really doesn't seem possible as the boys are really careful about planting at the correct depth. Hopefully they'll show themselves soon.
Here is a picture of my "Black Beauty" eggplants! Hard to believe that something this small will grow large enough to grow eggplant. It always amazes me.
These are a few of my "Black Beauty" variety Eggplant seedlings. I planted these seeds back around February 5 in large pots. They took over 2 weeks to sprout, but are doing well now. The "Rosa Bianca" variety Eggplant haven't sprouted yet, and they were planted on the same day. I read that they take approximately 3 weeks to sprout, so I'm trying not to worry about it yet, but (((wow))) they take a long time to appear!
The boys have been "helping" me plant (read: making a big mess), but it's worth the mess to teach them how to grow the seeds. I'm worrying that maybe the Rosa Bianca eggplant seeds got planted too deep, but that really doesn't seem possible as the boys are really careful about planting at the correct depth. Hopefully they'll show themselves soon.
Here is a picture of my "Black Beauty" eggplants! Hard to believe that something this small will grow large enough to grow eggplant. It always amazes me.
Friday, January 22, 2010
My seeds have arrived!
Yes, there are an insane amount of seed packets covering this table! I need to remind myself daily that my garden plot at the farm is growing this year, and that I really did need to order this many seeds! I'm renting almost half an acre of farmland in 2010, and plan to sell produce at a local farmer's market as well as advertising for local pickup sales. I'll also be selling hundreds of vegetable plants that will be started in my "greenhouse" (aka basement growing area).
This is promising to be an exciting, busy year and I'm trying not to become overwhelmed by all the seeds that are now gracing my office shelves.
Back to the packets. I am so impressed with Baker Creek's seed packets. They are just as artistic and unique as their catalog. I love the black background with beautiful pictures.
The onion plants, potatoes, asparagus, and rhubarb plants will be shipped closer to spring, right at the correct planting time. They can't be held very long before planting, so the seed companies send them to you at just the right time to plant. Nice!
To all the fellow gardeners out there, have your seeds begun arriving yet?
Thanks for visiting the All-Natural-Mama Blog, home to Wishful Acres Organic Farm!
Friday, January 1, 2010
2011 Vegetable Plants for sale
The following Certified Naturally Grown vegetable plants will be available for purchase in early to mid-May. Gardeners are advised to wait until approximate May 15 to transplant into the garden to avoid possible frost damage. Sorry, plants are only available locally, no shipping available.
To pre-order beginning May 1, email wishfulacres@gmail.com or call Penny at 815-990-2380. I will be delivering the plants through the end of May & early June. The plants will also be available for purchase at the Freeport Farmers Market.
Price per plant (tomato, eggplant, pepper): Small pot / plant $1.50, Large pot / plant $2.50. Bulk discount: 25 cents off per plant when ordering 10 or more plants.
Eggplant
Black Beauty:
This is the typical variety of eggplant most commonly seen. It features a firm skin, dark purple to black in color, and tender, sweet flesh. Delicious roasted, grilled, and sauteed! Used in many Italian dishes. My favorite way to cook eggplant is coated with olive oil, sprinkled with garlic powder, basil, salt and pepper, and lightly grilled.
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Pepper Plants
Sweet Chocolate Pepper:
Our hands-down favorite pepper here at the farm. This is the sweetest pepper you'll ever taste. Dark brown skin, rust-colored flesh. Delicious! Great served as a sweet chiles rellenos, sauteed with onions, stuffed, raw, it's a very versatile pepper! I also enjoy chopping and freezing them to use all winter. Non-bell shape.
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Red Bell Pepper: (sweet)
These are so productive on our farm! Green bell pepper which ripens to a vibrant, sweet red with rich flavor. Grows large, very crunchy & sweet. Just what you would expect from a great tasting bell pepper. I will have plenty of these plants available for sale.
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Yellow Bell Pepper: (sweet)
The most productive, largest bell peppers we grow on the farm! This variety is a green bell pepper which ripens to a bright yellow. Excellent flavor, sweet, crisp, very large. You won't be disappointed in these. Great raw, sauteed, stuffed, roasted, grilled, you name it! I will have plenty of these plants available for sale.
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Orange Bell Pepper: (sweet)
This is a sweet green bell pepper which ripens to orange. Unusual, striking. Sweet, crunchy, great color. Beautiful in salads, when the great color stands out. Also great cooked as any sweet pepper. Delicious! Limited supply of these plants, order early!
New sweet peppers this year:
Purple Bell Pepper
Absolutely stunning purple bell pepper. Large 4-lobed, thick-walled fruits borne on sturdy compact plants. Tender crisp texture, mild sweet flavor. Holds in the purple stage for some time before ripening to a radiant purple-red. 70-75 days from transplant.
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HOT PEPPERS
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Hungarian Yellow Wax (Hot)
Spicy, fairly hot banana shaped fruits, 6" long and 1-1/2" across - perfect for pickling. Matures from light yellow to bright red. Best hot pepper for cooler climates. Ever-bearing plants are 16 to 24" tall, strong, upright.
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Early Jalapeno (Hot)
The standard hot pepper! Used in so many Mexican dishes, including Salsa Verde (view the recipe section of this blog for my recipe!). We had basketful upon basketful of this heirloom variety of hot pepper at the farm last year. Very productive!
.
Orange Habanero (Very hot)
Some like it hot! Incredible warmth and rich, smoky-citrus taste of these lantern-shaped 2" fruit. Very ornamental, as well as perfect for spicing up a pot of chili or making killer hot sauce. A heavy producer, so you will have plenty to share!
.
New hot peppers this year:
Anaheim Chile
Anaheim Chilies are prolific bearers, of long thin fruits about 6" long. Mildly hot, people use them in roasting, stuffing, stews, sauces or raw. Organic plants grow 20-30" and bear late in the season.
.
Big Jim Chile
New kind of chili called Big Jim, featuring giant, nearly foot-long peppers that you and your family can feast on to your heart's content without ever leaving your mouth on fire and your throat begging for ice water. Peppers can grow to nearly a foot long.
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Ancho Poblano
One of the most popular chiles in Mexico. Mildly hot 4-6 in. fruits are widely used for making chile rellenos and mole. Dark green skin turns red when ripe. Known as Poblano when fresh. Ancho when dried. Bushy, extremely productive plants.
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Yellow Habanero
The lovely lemon-colored member of the habanero family, this ornamental variety is so colorful when the plants are loaded down with so much yellow! A great-eating variety that carries plenty of heat and flavor for most any dish and makes a lovely lemon-colored hot sauce. This Caribbean favorite is very hot, so use a little caution as you enjoy with your friends.
.
Chocolate Habanero
So beautiful. The chocolate-brown, lantern shaped fruit are about 2 inches long, and so ornamental! But don’t let the color fool you; these are not candy, but rather flaming-hot fruit that carry a massive 300,000 Scoville units of heat! Hot pepper enthusiasts love the heat and flavor that these chocolate fruit are packed with, but be careful and use in moderation.
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Bulgarian Carrot Hot Pepper
75 days from setting out transplants.
This heirloom variety is compact enough to grow in containers, reaching just 18 inches tall and 12 to 18 inches wide. The long, tapering fruits measure about 3 to 4 inches, arising in big clusters close to the stem. You simply won't believe the production capability of this modest little plant, or its speed -- in just a little over two months from the time you set the seedlings into the soil or container, you'll be picking, chopping, pickling, and reaching for tall glasses of cold water fast!
Tomatoes
Heirloom Varieties:
Roma.
A favorite of many! Very thick flesh, very few seeds. Small, oval-shaped. Great for making sauce, soups, and salsa. Also great in salads, roasted, and grilled with a dash of olive oil and seasonings! There will be plenty of these plants for sale.
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Mortgage Lifter. (juicy slicing tomato)
HUGE, Gigantic tomatoes! The standard in big heirloom varieties - it's legendary. Named after Radiator Charlie, a man who bred this variety and paid off his mortgage during the Great Depression by selling the seeds. Pink skinned, extra-large slicing tomato, very juicy.
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Black Krim. (juicy slicing tomato) .
A very unique tomato! Fruits are a dark, deep red (almost a shiny black) with heavy green shoulders. Interior is a deep, reddish-green color. Sweet and tasty. Matures extremely early.
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Kellogg's Breakfast (slicing tomato).
Our 2010 favorite. Very sweet, meaty, few seeds! Lovely, pale-orange fruits are solid and meaty throughout, packed with mild, superb-tasting flesh. A long-season producer of large, beefsteak-type fruits, up to 16 oz., with solid centers that have just a few seeds at the edges. Our favorite here at the farm last year!
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Pink Brandywine (juicy slicing tomato)
This pink-skinned tomato sets the standard for all other tomato varieties! Commonly recognized as the best-tasting tomato variety available, this Amish heirloom variety dates back to at least 1885. Huge, beautiful pink fruit up to 1-1/2 lbs. each.
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Red Striped Stuffer (hollow, stuffing tomato)
Don't be fooled - it's not a bell pepper! I first grew stuffer tomatoes on the farm last year, and they quickly became a favorite. Browse the recipes section of my blog to see some of the unique ways we cooked these (make an easy lasagna!)
They are very meaty - very little juice and practically no seeds. The interior is hollow, just as a bell pepper. Great tomato taste. Amaze your friends, or just cook some darn good stuffed tomatoes!
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Yellow Stuffer (hollow, stuffing tomato)
This is the variety that became legendary when I grew it at the farm last year. It's now one of my favorites! These tomatoes produced and produced all summer long, even through the cold, rainy conditions and the blight didn't faze them.
They are very meaty - very little juice and practically no seeds. The interior is hollow, just as a bell pepper. Great tomato taste. Amaze your friends, or just cook some darn good stuffed tomatoes!
New heirloom tomato varieties this year:
Yellow Brandywine
Large yellow fruit of exceptional quality, creamy texture, and delicious flavor. Fruit size is from 12 to 24 ozs., and tall vines have healthy, potato-leaved foliage. An extremely rich-tasting tomato, this one is also beautiful due to its smooth, not rough, shape. Indeterminate. 90 days.
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Cherry and Pear Tomato plants:
Chocolate Cherry
70 days. As irresistible as a chocolate covered cherry, but without all of the guilt. These cherries have both skin and flesh shaded an attractive combination of port wine and chestnut with a comparably delicious and multifaceted flavor. The super productive, indeterminate plants produce trusses of 1 inch round fruit nonstop. We've found them enjoyable harvested fully mature, or even picked several days before they're fully ripe, then allowed to finish indoors.
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Orange Cherry
Very sweet, bright orange cherry tomatoes taste not just sugary but also fruity and delicious. Vigorous growers, these tall plants bear long clusters of fruit. Try these for a real taste treat, you won't believe you're eating tomatoes! Indeterminate. 57 days.
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Red Grape
Fruits are firm, meaty, and free of cracking, with good chewy texture, sweet taste, and few seeds. Long clusters of 20 or more fruits on tall plants. In our trials, Red Grape's fruits avg. 15 gm.
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Red Pear
Indeterminate - 78 days - Delightful clusters packed with small pear-shaped tomatoes. Sweet fruits are perfectly sized to pop in your mouth or use whole in salads. Vigorous vines bear prolifically until frost.
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Yellow Pear
Enormous number of yellow bite-sized fruits.
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Tomatillo. (non-tomato)
Unusual 2" fruits are harvested green - the husks are removed before cooking. A staple ingredient in Mexican Salsa Verde (view the recipes section of my blog for my recipe!). Tart, yellow-green fruits can also be used to add a distinctive taste to salads. A favorite at the farm for making Salsa Verde.
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Ground Cherry. (heritage fruit)
Not really a tomato, but a relative. Huge yield of tart-sweet berries. This is the common type, used by the Pilgrims; excellent for pies, jams, and preserves of all kinds, also delicious fresh. The fruit grows inside a paper like husk, (the same as Tomatillos.) Grow it the same as you would tomatoes.
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Hybrid Tomato plants (for those looking for tons of red tomatoes on hardy plants with traditional flavor)
Early Girl
Comes in first as an early slicing tomato and a favorite early variety. Dependable large harvests of flavorful, solid 4 to 6 oz. fruit. Disease resistance is good, contributing to its excellent performance in almost any climate. A proven variety for delicious, early tomatoes. Indeterminate. 52 days.
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Better Boy
Huge, delicious, red fruits many 1 lb. each. Good leaf coverage. Excellent disease resistance. Indeterminate
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Celebrity
70 Days - A 1984 All-America Selection Winner! Exceptionally flavorful, firm 7 to 8 oz. fruit on strong vines with good cover and outstanding disease resistance. Highly productive and widely adaptable for for bush, cage or short stake growing.
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Salad Plants - small pot only (new this year!): there will be several plants in each pot
Kale
Vining Veggie Plants - large pot only (sold in peat pots to minimize root disturbance when planting)
Cucumber
Zucchini
Butternut Squash
White Pumpkin
Mini Pumpkin
To pre-order beginning May 1, email wishfulacres@gmail.com or call Penny at 815-990-2380. I will be delivering the plants through the end of May & early June. The plants will also be available for purchase at the Freeport Farmers Market.
Price per plant (tomato, eggplant, pepper): Small pot / plant $1.50, Large pot / plant $2.50. Bulk discount: 25 cents off per plant when ordering 10 or more plants.
Eggplant
This is the typical variety of eggplant most commonly seen. It features a firm skin, dark purple to black in color, and tender, sweet flesh. Delicious roasted, grilled, and sauteed! Used in many Italian dishes. My favorite way to cook eggplant is coated with olive oil, sprinkled with garlic powder, basil, salt and pepper, and lightly grilled.
.
Pepper Plants
Sweet Chocolate Pepper:
Our hands-down favorite pepper here at the farm. This is the sweetest pepper you'll ever taste. Dark brown skin, rust-colored flesh. Delicious! Great served as a sweet chiles rellenos, sauteed with onions, stuffed, raw, it's a very versatile pepper! I also enjoy chopping and freezing them to use all winter. Non-bell shape.
.
These are so productive on our farm! Green bell pepper which ripens to a vibrant, sweet red with rich flavor. Grows large, very crunchy & sweet. Just what you would expect from a great tasting bell pepper. I will have plenty of these plants available for sale.
.
Yellow Bell Pepper: (sweet)
The most productive, largest bell peppers we grow on the farm! This variety is a green bell pepper which ripens to a bright yellow. Excellent flavor, sweet, crisp, very large. You won't be disappointed in these. Great raw, sauteed, stuffed, roasted, grilled, you name it! I will have plenty of these plants available for sale.
.
This is a sweet green bell pepper which ripens to orange. Unusual, striking. Sweet, crunchy, great color. Beautiful in salads, when the great color stands out. Also great cooked as any sweet pepper. Delicious! Limited supply of these plants, order early!
New sweet peppers this year:
Absolutely stunning purple bell pepper. Large 4-lobed, thick-walled fruits borne on sturdy compact plants. Tender crisp texture, mild sweet flavor. Holds in the purple stage for some time before ripening to a radiant purple-red. 70-75 days from transplant.
.
HOT PEPPERS
.
Spicy, fairly hot banana shaped fruits, 6" long and 1-1/2" across - perfect for pickling. Matures from light yellow to bright red. Best hot pepper for cooler climates. Ever-bearing plants are 16 to 24" tall, strong, upright.
.
The standard hot pepper! Used in so many Mexican dishes, including Salsa Verde (view the recipe section of this blog for my recipe!). We had basketful upon basketful of this heirloom variety of hot pepper at the farm last year. Very productive!
.
Orange Habanero (Very hot)
Some like it hot! Incredible warmth and rich, smoky-citrus taste of these lantern-shaped 2" fruit. Very ornamental, as well as perfect for spicing up a pot of chili or making killer hot sauce. A heavy producer, so you will have plenty to share!
.
New hot peppers this year:
Anaheim Chilies are prolific bearers, of long thin fruits about 6" long. Mildly hot, people use them in roasting, stuffing, stews, sauces or raw. Organic plants grow 20-30" and bear late in the season.
.
Big Jim Chile
New kind of chili called Big Jim, featuring giant, nearly foot-long peppers that you and your family can feast on to your heart's content without ever leaving your mouth on fire and your throat begging for ice water. Peppers can grow to nearly a foot long.
.
One of the most popular chiles in Mexico. Mildly hot 4-6 in. fruits are widely used for making chile rellenos and mole. Dark green skin turns red when ripe. Known as Poblano when fresh. Ancho when dried. Bushy, extremely productive plants.
.
The lovely lemon-colored member of the habanero family, this ornamental variety is so colorful when the plants are loaded down with so much yellow! A great-eating variety that carries plenty of heat and flavor for most any dish and makes a lovely lemon-colored hot sauce. This Caribbean favorite is very hot, so use a little caution as you enjoy with your friends.
.
So beautiful. The chocolate-brown, lantern shaped fruit are about 2 inches long, and so ornamental! But don’t let the color fool you; these are not candy, but rather flaming-hot fruit that carry a massive 300,000 Scoville units of heat! Hot pepper enthusiasts love the heat and flavor that these chocolate fruit are packed with, but be careful and use in moderation.
.
75 days from setting out transplants.
This heirloom variety is compact enough to grow in containers, reaching just 18 inches tall and 12 to 18 inches wide. The long, tapering fruits measure about 3 to 4 inches, arising in big clusters close to the stem. You simply won't believe the production capability of this modest little plant, or its speed -- in just a little over two months from the time you set the seedlings into the soil or container, you'll be picking, chopping, pickling, and reaching for tall glasses of cold water fast!
Tomatoes
Heirloom Varieties:
A favorite of many! Very thick flesh, very few seeds. Small, oval-shaped. Great for making sauce, soups, and salsa. Also great in salads, roasted, and grilled with a dash of olive oil and seasonings! There will be plenty of these plants for sale.
.
Mortgage Lifter. (juicy slicing tomato)
HUGE, Gigantic tomatoes! The standard in big heirloom varieties - it's legendary. Named after Radiator Charlie, a man who bred this variety and paid off his mortgage during the Great Depression by selling the seeds. Pink skinned, extra-large slicing tomato, very juicy.
.
Black Krim. (juicy slicing tomato) .
A very unique tomato! Fruits are a dark, deep red (almost a shiny black) with heavy green shoulders. Interior is a deep, reddish-green color. Sweet and tasty. Matures extremely early.
.
Kellogg's Breakfast (slicing tomato).
Our 2010 favorite. Very sweet, meaty, few seeds! Lovely, pale-orange fruits are solid and meaty throughout, packed with mild, superb-tasting flesh. A long-season producer of large, beefsteak-type fruits, up to 16 oz., with solid centers that have just a few seeds at the edges. Our favorite here at the farm last year!
.
Pink Brandywine (juicy slicing tomato)
This pink-skinned tomato sets the standard for all other tomato varieties! Commonly recognized as the best-tasting tomato variety available, this Amish heirloom variety dates back to at least 1885. Huge, beautiful pink fruit up to 1-1/2 lbs. each.
.
Red Striped Stuffer (hollow, stuffing tomato)
Don't be fooled - it's not a bell pepper! I first grew stuffer tomatoes on the farm last year, and they quickly became a favorite. Browse the recipes section of my blog to see some of the unique ways we cooked these (make an easy lasagna!)
They are very meaty - very little juice and practically no seeds. The interior is hollow, just as a bell pepper. Great tomato taste. Amaze your friends, or just cook some darn good stuffed tomatoes!
.
Yellow Stuffer (hollow, stuffing tomato)
This is the variety that became legendary when I grew it at the farm last year. It's now one of my favorites! These tomatoes produced and produced all summer long, even through the cold, rainy conditions and the blight didn't faze them.
They are very meaty - very little juice and practically no seeds. The interior is hollow, just as a bell pepper. Great tomato taste. Amaze your friends, or just cook some darn good stuffed tomatoes!
New heirloom tomato varieties this year:
Yellow Brandywine
Large yellow fruit of exceptional quality, creamy texture, and delicious flavor. Fruit size is from 12 to 24 ozs., and tall vines have healthy, potato-leaved foliage. An extremely rich-tasting tomato, this one is also beautiful due to its smooth, not rough, shape. Indeterminate. 90 days.
.
Cherry and Pear Tomato plants:
70 days. As irresistible as a chocolate covered cherry, but without all of the guilt. These cherries have both skin and flesh shaded an attractive combination of port wine and chestnut with a comparably delicious and multifaceted flavor. The super productive, indeterminate plants produce trusses of 1 inch round fruit nonstop. We've found them enjoyable harvested fully mature, or even picked several days before they're fully ripe, then allowed to finish indoors.
.
Very sweet, bright orange cherry tomatoes taste not just sugary but also fruity and delicious. Vigorous growers, these tall plants bear long clusters of fruit. Try these for a real taste treat, you won't believe you're eating tomatoes! Indeterminate. 57 days.
.
Red Grape
Fruits are firm, meaty, and free of cracking, with good chewy texture, sweet taste, and few seeds. Long clusters of 20 or more fruits on tall plants. In our trials, Red Grape's fruits avg. 15 gm.
.
Indeterminate - 78 days - Delightful clusters packed with small pear-shaped tomatoes. Sweet fruits are perfectly sized to pop in your mouth or use whole in salads. Vigorous vines bear prolifically until frost.
.
Enormous number of yellow bite-sized fruits.
.
Tomatillo. (non-tomato)
Unusual 2" fruits are harvested green - the husks are removed before cooking. A staple ingredient in Mexican Salsa Verde (view the recipes section of my blog for my recipe!). Tart, yellow-green fruits can also be used to add a distinctive taste to salads. A favorite at the farm for making Salsa Verde.
.
Not really a tomato, but a relative. Huge yield of tart-sweet berries. This is the common type, used by the Pilgrims; excellent for pies, jams, and preserves of all kinds, also delicious fresh. The fruit grows inside a paper like husk, (the same as Tomatillos.) Grow it the same as you would tomatoes.
.
Hybrid Tomato plants (for those looking for tons of red tomatoes on hardy plants with traditional flavor)
Early Girl
Comes in first as an early slicing tomato and a favorite early variety. Dependable large harvests of flavorful, solid 4 to 6 oz. fruit. Disease resistance is good, contributing to its excellent performance in almost any climate. A proven variety for delicious, early tomatoes. Indeterminate. 52 days.
.
Better Boy
Huge, delicious, red fruits many 1 lb. each. Good leaf coverage. Excellent disease resistance. Indeterminate
.
Celebrity
70 Days - A 1984 All-America Selection Winner! Exceptionally flavorful, firm 7 to 8 oz. fruit on strong vines with good cover and outstanding disease resistance. Highly productive and widely adaptable for for bush, cage or short stake growing.
.
Salad Plants - small pot only (new this year!): there will be several plants in each pot
Kale
Vining Veggie Plants - large pot only (sold in peat pots to minimize root disturbance when planting)
Cucumber
Zucchini
Butternut Squash
White Pumpkin
Mini Pumpkin
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Stayin' alive
The tomato and pepper plants I raised from tiny seeds have survived!
Recently, my boys (sons and husband) helped me move them all to the mud room to harden them off.
It's important for the plants to get used to a bit of colder temperatures and wind for a couple of weeks before they go into the garden.
I'm so proud of how they grew! It was a group effort, really. My husband helped a lot with moving them under the lights in the wee hours when he got home from work. The boys helped by using such amazing restraint and not yanking them out! Even the baby used his "nice" touch with them.
Recently, my boys (sons and husband) helped me move them all to the mud room to harden them off.
It's important for the plants to get used to a bit of colder temperatures and wind for a couple of weeks before they go into the garden.
I'm so proud of how they grew! It was a group effort, really. My husband helped a lot with moving them under the lights in the wee hours when he got home from work. The boys helped by using such amazing restraint and not yanking them out! Even the baby used his "nice" touch with them.
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