2022 Seedling Sale

All of our seedlings are VOF and Real Organic Project certified organic EXCEPT for the first round of pansies and petunias, which were brought in from Honeyfield Farm.

Pricing:

  • 4-Packs (804 style) – $5
  • 3.5″ Potted Single – $3
  • Hanging Baskets $18 or 2 for $30

Plant families that are typically wise to plant in May (Onions, lettuces, cabbages, etc.) will be available, hardened off, and ready to plant for opening weekend

We are happy to sell you warmer weather plants (Squash, peppers, eggplant, etc.) on opening weekend, but encourage you to give them more time before planting out. The 10-year average last frost date for our area is May 31 and you can find you town’s average here https://www.almanac.com/gardening/frostdates/VT

Tomatoes: available in 4-packs or 3.5″ pots

  • Big Beef – Indeterminate, Beefsteak
  • Celebrity – semi-determinate, great flavor, medium size fruit
  • New Girl – Indeterminate, earliest to produce ripe fruit
  • Defiant PhR – Determinate, Strongest defense against disease
  • Pink Berkley Tie-Dye – Indeterminate,  red with bronze stripes
  • Moskvich – Red heirloom, early and cold tolerant
  • Pruden’s Purple – Heirloom, early brandywine type
  • Pink Brandywine – Heirloom, renowned for flavor
  • Copia – Indeterminate, large fruit, yellow and red swirl
  • Black Krim – dark red and purple heirloom
  • Valencia – tangy orange heirloom
  • Verona – indeterminate, high quality,  oval “saladette” fruit

Cherry Tomatoes: (All Indeterminate) available in 4-packs or 3.5″ pots

  • Sungold – highly productive, orange, irresistibly sweet
  • Supersweet 100 – classic red cherry tomato
  • Sunsugar – like sungold w/ better crack resistance
  • Black Cherry – large, deep purple cherries
  • Esterina – Round, yellow with high early yields and sweet flavor
  • Red Pearl – pear shaped, red cherry
  • Gold spark – pear shaped yellow cherry with great productivity

Paste Tomatoes: available in 4-packs or 3.5″ pots

  • Granadero F1 – Indeterminate, produces terrific fruit even under disease pressure, save green fruit in fall – they ripen well!
  • San Marzano – Indeterminate, Classic paste tomato

Sweet Peppers: available in 4-packs except for King Arthur and Gourmet, which are available in 3.5″

  • Ace – early, prolific yields of green to red bells
  • King of the North – OP large blocky green to red bell pepper
  • King Arthur – hybrid for large, thick walled green to red bells
  • Gourmet – orange bell with excellent flavor
  • Sweet Sunrise – yellow/light orange bell
  • Carmen – long italian red peppers, top tier flavor and quality
  • Escamillo – orange counterpart to carmen
  • Glow – Small, snackable, delicious and early orange fruit

Hot Peppers: available in 4-packs

  • Jalafuego – Hybrid, Medium Sized Jalapeno
  • Jedi – Hybrid, Jumbo Jalapenos – great for stuffing
  • Bastan – hybrid poblano pepper, low heat
  • Highlander – highly productive, long, low heat anaheim good picked green or red
  • Red Ember – productive, red cayenne
  • Cherry Pepper – medium heat, cherry peppers
  • Hungarian Hot Wax – bushes yield lime green, to orange to red peppers that getting hotter the longer you let them go
  • Shishito – mild japanese pepper for frying, roasting,  or grilling
  • Helios – hybrid habanero pepper
  • Antiplano – Serrano pepper, medium-high heat, smaller than jalapeno but more abundant

Eggplant: available in 4-packs

  • Nadia – classic, large italian
  • Nigral – new strain from Johnnys to replace Nadia
  • Estelal A1014 – Earlier, large italian
  • Dairyu – large, japanese style fruit
  • Orient Express – Japanese style, smaller than dairyu, but earlier
  • Dancer – bright pink italian fruit
  • Beatrice – similiar look to italian heirlooms, but better for our New England climate

Brassicas (Cabbage Family): available in 4-packs

  • Winterbor Green curly Kale
  • Redbor Red/Purple curly Kale
  • Lacinato – “Dino” Kale
  • Red Russian Kale
  • White Russian Kale
  • Flash Collard Greens
  • Farao green cabbage – fresh eating, sweet, medium head
  • Storage #4 green cabbage- well storing, potentially large
  • Ruby Perfection Cabbage- bright purple, stores fairly well
  • Eastern Magic Broccoli – med sized heads, well adapted to NE
  • Belstar Broccoli – good heat tolerance and size potential
  • Amazing Cauliflower – our go to cauliflower
  • Skywalker Caulfilower – later, larger cauliflower
  • Nautic Brussel Sprouts – hybrid with open habit to avoid black rot
  • Mustard Greens – can be grown close for cut and come again mild salad greens, or spaced out and grown to full size for flavorful mature greens

Onions: sold in open 801 pack (1/8th of a standard tray)

  • Patterson Yellow Storage onion
  • Redwing Red Storage onion
  • King RIchard Leeks – early, for fresh use
  • Nabechan Scallions – japanese varietal, eats well even at larger size and can be hilled for “negi” onions
  • Matador Shallot – excellent storage

Summer Cucurbits (Squash Family): available in 3.5″ pots, 2-3 plants per pot to make a nice sprawling mound, or can be fanned out on a trellis

  • Slicing cucumber “Marketmore 76” – tried and true, standard
  • Pickling Cucumber – “Cool Customer” medium sized
  • Zucchini “Dunja” – dark green, powdery mildew tolerant
  • Summer Squash “Success PM” – powdery mildew resistant

Winter Squash” available in 3.5″ pots, 2-3 plants per pot to make a nice sprawling mound, or can be fanned out on a trellis

  • Butternut Squash “WaldoF1” – hybrid, full vigor and powdery mildew resistant
  • Buttercup Squash “Bonbon” – improved consistency
  • Sunshine Kabocha Squash – early, orange shell and flex, kabocha
  • Winter Sweet – bluish, grey exceptional storage, kabocha
  • Pie Pumpkin “Cinnamon Girl” – hybrid pie pumpkin
  • Baby Blue Hubbard – for when you want a Hubbard, but not every day for rest of the month
  • Delicatta – Johnny’s strain, productive, delicious, early winter squash to be eaten during the fall

Herbs/Other: available in 4-packs

  • Swiss Chard – Ruby Supreme, Fordhook, oriole, peppermint
  • Head Lettuce – Salanova “One-Cut” mix, New Red Fire, Mirlo (boston), and Muir (green)
  • Sugar Snap Peas
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley – Krausa Curly or Giant Italian Flat
  • Italian Basil

Flowers: available in 4-packs except where noted otherwise

  • Marigolds – brocade (french marigold), tangerine gem, red gem, lemon gem (smaller, extremely fragrant flowers), Inca (jumbo flowers)
  • Snapdragons – rocket mix
  • Bachelor’s Buttons- Polka Dot mix (blue, pink, magenta, and lavender), Jubilee (just blue) and
  • Larkspur
  • Cosmos- Versailles blend, and Double-Click
  •  Nasturtiums- Jewel mix (also available in potted singles)
  • Alyssum- carpet of snow
  • Tithonia
  • Zinnias- Benary’s giant mix, Dwarf
  • Pansies (available in potted singles)
  • Calendula- Resina, Neon
  • Chamomile- German
  • Anise Hyssop
  • Catnip
  • Tulsi
  • Poppies

 

One thought on “2022 Seedling Sale”

  1. The green pepper I bought last year at Hunger Mountain, that was in a section marked “Littlewood Farm,” turned out to be the one and only delicious, Green Pepper Flavored!! pepper I’d tasted even in the summer.
    PLEASE tell me how to buy green pepper plants from you and how to take care that they develop flavor. I do pot six wooden matches tips down, into each hole, along with a tablespoon of Epsom salts sprinkled into it, when planting. But that’s all I’ve
    ever learned to do.
    I also don’t know how to prevent the disease that causes rotting around a black spot on a pepper.
    ANY help you can give, even if just pointing me to a good write-up on growing delicious green peppers, would be so very much
    appreciated. THANKS for whatever you can share,

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