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Seeds sprouting in Soil Blocks

The first of the broccoli starts breaking through. We use soil blocks whenever possible to reduce plastic waste and grow healthier plants. Soil blocks also give our plants less transplant shock because their roots become air pruned as they reach the edges of the soil block. We use all natural soil mixes and use coconut coir as much as possible instead of peat to help the environment and preserve our precious peat bogs.
 
    

Projected 2023 Crop List

We have some exciting new varieties we are adding this year as well as our tried and true favorites. While we can't guarantee any particular variety (due to weather and conditions beyond our control)  we love variety and try to have as much as possible.  This list can help to give you an idea of what we grow during the season. We know some names can be a little vague or meaningless, so we decided to add colors or small descriptions to the side.
Check out what we plan to grow!

Vegetables:

-Amaranth (beautiful deep velvet colors, leaves are added to salads and the tiny grains are great too!)

  • Red

-Bush Beans (aka snap or fillet beans)

  • Provider                (standard green)

  • Royal Burgundy   (deep purple that turns green when cooked)

  • Rocdor                  (golden yellow and super tender)

  • Red Swan             (red)

  • Blue Lake 274      (green)

-Pole Beans (very much like bush beans, they are just classified differently due to growth habit)

  • Kentucky Wonder Pole (the classic green Kentucky Wonder)

  • Dow Purple Podded Pole      (long purple pods)

  • Blauhilde                      (purple)

  • Marvel of Venice          (yellow)

  • Long Chinese Noodle Bean

-Beets

  • Chioggia             (alternating pink and white bulls eye pattern)

  • Bull's Blood        (dark red)

  • Detriot Dark red (dark red :)          

  • Boldor                 (golden yellow)

  • Cylindra              (long slender cylinder shaped red beet)

  • Ruby Queen       (sweet red beet)

-Broccoli

  • Belstar                 (green)

  • Calabrese             (green)

  • Waltham 29         (green)

  • Spring Raab         (green sprouting broccoli, tender stems and tiny heads)

  • Purple Sprouting  (purple sprouting broccoli, tender stems and tiny purple heads in fall)

  • Romansco            (light green patterned heads)

-Cabbage

  • Brunswick           (green)

  • Kalibos                (purple/red heads)

  • Early Jersey Wakefield (small green heads)

-Carrots

  • Scarlet Nantes          (orange)

  • Danvers Half Long  (orange)

  • Purple Haze             (purple outside with orange cores)

  • Atomic Red              (red/orange carrots)

  • Amarillo                   (bright to mellow yellow and super tender)

  • Deep Purple              (all purple carrot)

  • Koral                         (coral colored/light pink-orange)

  • Yaya                          (orange)

  • St. Valery                  (orange)

  • Bolero                       (good orange keeper)

-Cauliflower

  • Amazing                  (white)

  • Durgesh 41              (white)

  • Rober                       (white)

  • Purple of Sicily        (purple)

  • Snow Crown            (white)

-Celery

  • Chinese Pink           (white with pink hues, slightly smaller ribs but grows well in the summer heat) 

  • D' Elne                    (green French variety)

-Chard  (we love mixing chard in our morning eggs!)

  • Ruby Red               (dark-light red)

  • Neon                       (a rainbow of colors)

-Collards

  • Georgia                   (large green leaves, great for stir-fries or mixed with meat dishes)

-Cucumbers

  • Lemon                     (round yellow cucumbers, hence the name lemon)

  • Homemade Pickles (green)

  • Strait Eight              (green)

  • Muncher                  (green, burpless cucumber)

  • Early Russian          (green)

  • Yard long                 (light green, this variety is actually a melon that taste like a cucumber)

  • Chicago pickling     (green)

  • Ancash market         (green)

  • Boston pickling       (green)

  • Marketmore 76        (smooth green salad type)

-Kale

  • Curled Blue Scotch (standard green with a lovely blue hue, especially after frost)

  • Scarlet                      (purple curled kale)

  • Lacinato/Dinosaur   (flatter and more oval shaped leaves)

  • Red Russian             (large green leaves with purple/red veins)

-Kohlrabi         (super tender, sweet, and crunchy, can be used a lot like broccoli)

  • Purple Vienna          (purple)

  • White Vienna           (white and green)

-Leeks

  • Autumn Giant

  • Giant Musselburg

-Lettuce

  • Marvel of Four Seasons (red and green lose head lettuce)

  • Red Sails                        (red and green lose leaf lettuce)

  • Green Leaf                     (green lose leaf lettuce)

  • Buttercrunch                  (green butter-head)

  • Rouge D'Hiver               (red winter romain)

  • Paris Island                    (green summer romain)

  • Salad Bowl                     (green lose leaf lettuce)

  • Outrageous                     (red lose leaf lettuce)

-Mustard Greens (wonderful greens to add nutrients to your diet and a little zest to food dishes)

  • Tender-green             (green leaves)

  • Osaka Purple             (dark purple with green ribs)

  • Japanese Giant Red   (large dark red/purple leaves)

  • Minzuna (red and green)   (fine spicy leaves)

-Onions

  • Walla Walla Sweet    (large sweet yellow)

  • Red of Florence         (torpedo shaped red)

  • Alisa Craig                (extra large white)

  • Tokyo Long White    (bunching)

  • Red Beard                  (red bunching)      

  • Patterson                    (storage yellow)

  • Red Marble               (storage red)

  • Yellow of Parma       (small Italian yellow)

  • Yellow Sweet Spanish (flat yellow)

  • Redwing                    (large red)

  • Libson                       (green onions)

-Peas

  • Oregon Suger Pod 2  (sweet flat pods)

  • Oregon Trail              (rounded pods, sweet when young and excellent soup peas when mature)

  • Sweet Purple             (round purple sweet peas!)

-Peppers (hot)

  • Jalapeño            (standard green, med. heat)

  • Poblano             (great mild stuffing pepper)

  • Anaheim            (anywhere from sweet to mild heat)

  • Black Hungarian  (like a slightly mild purple Jalapeño)

  • Cayenne                (spicy red pepper)

  • Habanero               (hot orange pepper)

-Peppers (sweet)

  • King of the North  (red/green bell peppers)

  • Corno Di Torro      (sweet red/green Italian pepper)

  • Jimmy Narello       (sweet red/green Italian pepper)

  • Yum-Yum Sweet   (sweet red, yellow and orange mini bells)

-Potatoes

  • Yukon Gem           (round yellow)

  • Clearwater             (russet type)

  • Kennebec              (tender white)

  • Chieftain                (red)

  • Terra Rosa             (a beautiful fingerling, rose colored throughout, puts a nice twist on mashed potatoes)

  • Purple Majesty      (all purple potato, makes great mashed potatoes or potato chips)

-Pumpkins

  • Wee-Be-Little      (tiny tabletop pumpkins, super tender too!)

  • Jack-Be-Little      (slightly bigger than Wee-Be-Little, great for personal pies or decorations)

  • Howden               (larger "field" pumpkin, tastes great and makes nice jack-O-lanterns)

  • Lady Godiva        (dark green with orange ribs, this is a "seed" pumpkin, if you enjoy pumpkin seeds,         this is the pumpkin for you, no shelling too!)

  • Baby Bear             (the perfect pie pumpkin)

-Radishes

  • French Breakfast (slender long breakfast radishes, very crisp and mild)

  • Cherry Belle        (traditional round red radishes)

  • Champion            (round red radishes)

-Rutabaga

  • Purple Yellow Top (white with purple outside blush)

-Spinach

  • Bloomsdale           (small rumpled green leaves)

  • Viroflay Giant       (large green leaves)

-Summer Squash

  • Black Beauty       (dark green zucchini)

  • Grey Zucchini      (light green and white speckles, a "grayish" appearance)

  • Golden Zucchini  (yellow)

  • Yellow Scallop     (yellow patty-pan type)

  • White Scallop       (white patty-pan type)

  • Green Tint Scallop (green patty-pan type)

  • Yellow Crookneck (yellow)

-Winter Squash

  • Sweet Dumpling (very sweet and small squash, similar to delicata)

  • Butternut

  • Delicata            (a very sweet squash, gets sweeter with cooking, no sugar needed!)

  • Red Kuri           (larger red winter squash from Japan)

  • Acorn Squash

-Tomatoes

  • Roma

  • Red Brandywine

  • Red Cherry

  • Principe Borghese (red)

  • Stupice                   (small red)

  • Oregon Spring       (med. size red, similar to early girl)

  • Yellow Pear

  • Red Vernisage       (our favorite salad tomato, dark green/red stripes and oh so sweet)

  • Gold Nugget          (yellow cherry type)

  • Purple Bumblebee (red and green salad type)

  • Stripy Yellow Beefsteak

  • Auntie's Green German (a surprisingly sweet and delicious large green tomato, you would think it is red)

  • Marzano                (red paste type)

  • Arkansas Traveler  (our favorite large red tomato in 2021)

-Tomatillos (great added into salsa, chili or even soups)

  • Green                

  • Purple

  • Purple de Milpa

  • Little purple

  • Purple Coban

-Ground Cherries

  • Pineapple ground cherries

- Turnips

  • Purple Globe         (white and purple, makes a great addition to soups and mashed potatoes)

  • White Salad

Herbs:

-Basil

-Dill

-Thyme

-Lavender

-Mint

-Sage

-Oregano

-Rosemary

-Fennel

Fruit:

-Blackberries

-Raspberries

-Apples

-Watermelons

  • Moon and Stars

  • Sugar Baby

  • Blacktail Mountain

  • Winter King and Queen

-Cantaloup

  • Terrano

  • Papaya Dew

  • Háogan

  • Atlantis

  • Hales Best

-Other assorted melons (dependent on our summer heat)

-Other assorted corn (sweet and dry dependent on our summer heat)

-Strawberries/Blueberries

-( + assortment of other fruits from our young orchards and berry plants)

 

 

 

 

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