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Home | Plants | Vegetables | Other Vegetable Starts | Other Vegetable Starts

Other Vegetable Starts

ARTICHOKE

March 31, 2025

  • IMPERIAL STAR
  • COLORADO IMPERIAL
  • GREEN GLOBE

ASPARAGUS

April 2, 2025

  • JERSEY KNIGHT – All-male hybrid with bigger spears. Does not make seed, so doesn’t become weedy. Best selection for dense clay soils. Very productive and disease-resistant.  Cold-hardy to Zone 2. 5 crowns per bag.
  • PURPLE PASSION – Beautiful deep burgundy-colored spears with high sugar content. Delicious, tender, less fibrous, great raw, turns green when cooked. Cold-hardy to Zone 2. 5 crowns per bag.

BROCCOLI and other broccoli-like vegetables

March 3, 2025

And Other broccoli-like vegetables:

  • BROCCOLI RAAB
  • DICICCO
  • BELSTAR

CABBAGE

March 25, 2025

  • GOLDEN ACRE – 55 days from transplant. Very early, round-headed cabbage, nearly 5 pounds per head. Excellent taste.
  • RED CABBAGE
  • EARLY JERSEY WAKEFIED – 70 – 75 days from transplant.  Around since the mid-1800s, this early cabbage works with our shorter growing season. Compact, conical heads are sweet, flavorful, and very crisp.
  • ALL SEASONS – 90 days from transplant. 90 days — Heat resistant, fine-flavored and produces solid 10″ heads that come in at 12 pounds each.

COLLARDS

March 25, 2024

  • GEORGIA SOUTHERN – 50 – 80 days to harvest.  This variety has been a staple in the South since the 1800s. The large leaves can be steamed, wraps, and salad greens (when young).  Sweeter after a frost.
  • VATES – Slow-bolting collard with large blue-green leaves on 32 in. tall plants. Produces high-quality frost-resistant greens.

CUCUMBERS

March 31, 2025

10  Varieties this year, including:

  • ARMENIAN – 65 days, heirloom. 12-18″ crisp, juicy, sweet, burpless, tolerates drought and heat
  • LEMON – 65 days, heirloom.  Grown since 1894 but, you’ll never find it in a grocery store! This thin-skinned, lemon-sized and colored cucumber has excellent flavor and is a great slicer or pickler. Can be eaten with the skin and all; non-bitter and burpless. Plants are more drought tolerant than other varieties.
  • MARKETMORE 76 – 70 days. Open pollinated. Highly reliable, long-bearing, very sweet fresh slicing cuke, a home-garden favorite.
  • NATIONAL PICKLING – 58 days. Produces fruit that are straight, medium green in color, black-spined, and average 1¾ by six inches in size. You can start picking at about two inches in length. The vigorous vines are very productive. Perfect for filling jars!
  • SILVER SLICER – Open pollinated, 54 days. A great slicer with excellent flavor and lovely creamy white, thin, smooth skin. Fruits are 2” wide, 5-6” long, similar to Boothby Blonde with a longer, narrower shape and better flavor. Bred by Cornell University for resistance to powdery mildew. Superb juicy, sweet and mild flavor and good crunch.

EGGPLANT

April 1, 2025

  • BLACK BEAUTY– 75-80 days, Heirloom OP, Classic
    This 1902 Burpee introduction has perfect fruits earlier than other varieties. It soon became the classic farmers market and garden standard for eggplants, delicious grilled, baked, or fried. Broad, lustrous, purplish-black, egg-shaped 4” to 6” diameter (up to 2 lb) fruits are borne well off the ground on 18 to 24” plants; the skin is tender, so no need to peel it.
  • FENGYUAN – NEW! – 65-75 days, heirloom Asian (Taiwan), OP. Slender and very long, over 12”, with beautiful thin purple skin (no peeling!) and creamy mild white flesh that’s never bitter. Easy to grow and prolific. Wonderful for grilling or stir-fries.
  • PROSPEROSA – 75 days. A gorgeous eggplant! This Italian heirloom forms a deep purple fruit with a pleated top.  4–5 inch fruit are meaty and mild flavored with a texture perfect for cooking with. tall, vigorous plants.
  • TSAKONIKI – NEW! – 65 days, Heirloom (Leonidio, Greece), OP.  7-10” long slender fruits are purple striped with white, with delicate sweet flavor, never bitter. Great for savory dishes, and locals make a dessert with it

GREENS

April 1, 2025

  • ARUGULA: Astro, Sylvetta
  • CUTTING CELERY
  • KALE: Rainbow Dinosaur/Lacinato,  Red Russian, White Russian,  Blue Curled Dwarf , Scarlet, Nero Toscana, Baltisk
  • KAN TSAI
  • MIZUNA
  • MUSTARD: Red Giant,  Miz America
  • PAK CHOI
  • JOI CHOI
  • SENPOSI
  • TATSOI
  • TOKYO BEKANA
  • PERENNIAL SPINACH (HABLITZIA)
  • SHISO
  • WATERCRESS

and More!

LETTUCE

April 1, 2025

  • ANEUNUE
  • BUTTERCRUNCH
  • GOURMET BUTTER GEM
  • JERICHO
  • MARVEL OF FOUR SEASONS
  • RED SALAD BOWL
  • SKYPHOS
  • SPECKLED AMISH
  • TOM THUMB

LEEKS

March 1, 2025

  • SAN GIOVANNI
  • KING RICHARD – 75 days from transplant.  ‘King Richard’ produces extra long white stems early.  Cold tolerant to 20°F and can be left in the garden for an extended harvest.

MELON

April 1, 2025

  • MINNESOTA MIDGET
  • NOIR DE CARMES
  • TUSCANY

 

ONIONS

April 1, 2025

  • PATTERSON – (Yellow, storage) plants, 104 days, ~30 per half-bundle or ~60 per bundle
  • REDWING – (red, storage) plants, 115 days, ~30 per half-bundle or ~60 per bundle
  • WALLA WALLA – (yellow, sweet) plants, ~30 per half-bundle or ~60 per bundle
  • In pots – Ailsa Craig, Red Long of Tropea, Rosa di Milano, Walla Walla, Red Marble cipollini, Gold Coin cipollini

POTATOES

March 24, 2025

 

  • AMA ROSSA – NEW! – 85 – 95 days. Midseason. Rosy-red fingerling with rich-colored skin and flesh and keeps its color even after cooking. High in antioxidants. Nutty-tasting. Stem or air-fry for pink chips!
  • HARVEST MOON -85-100 days. Round tuber with purple skin and deep yellow flesh. Firm texture after cooking, with a nutty taste. Good for roasting, baking, soups, and chips. Stores excellently.
  • NICOLA – 85 – 105 days. Early. Thin skinned, yellow inside and out.
  • PURPLE MAJESTY  – Uniform, high-yield, deep purple skin and flesh, very high in anthocyanins (high-potency antioxidant) Bred in & for Colorado.
  • SANGRE – 80-90 days. Midseason. Beautiful red skinned variety with shallow eyes and medium-sized oblong tubers. Originally released by Colorado State University in 1982, Sangre ranks high in taste tests with creamy white flesh that is especially delicious boiled or baked. Stores well. 
  • YUKON GOLD- 85 – 100 days. Early Midseason. Smooth, thin, yellow skin and flesh. Buttery flavored, creamy texture, slightly sweet. These popular potatoes are waxy and firm, great for stews, soups, gratins, and mashed or roast potatoes.

 

PUMPKIN and WINTER SQUASH

April 1, 2025

15, including:

  • ACORN
  • CASPER
  • CHEROKEE BUSH
  • CINDERELLA
  • DELICATA
  • JARRAHDALE
  • HONEYBOAT
  • KABOCHA
  • SILVER BELL
  • SPAGHETTI
  • UNCLE DAVID’S BUTTERCUP
  • WINTER LUXURY

RHUBARB

April 4, 2025

 

  • CANADA RED
  • GLASKINS PERPETUAL
  • VICTORIA

SHALLOT

April 1, 2025

  • CREME BRULEE 
  • ZEBRUNE

SPINACH

April 1, 2025

  • BLOOMSDALE
  • MONSTREUX de VIROFLAY
  • NOBEL
  • SPACE
  • CAUCASIAN CLIMBING PERENNIAL (Hablitzia tamnoides)

SQUASH, SUMMER

April 1, 2025

  • BLACK BEAUTY ZUCCHINI
  • COSTATA ROMANESCA ZUCCHINI – 55 days, heirloom, ranked best-tasting zucchini, vigorous, large
  • DIRANI
  • JAUNE et VERTE SCALLOP
  • SUMMER CROOKNECK
  • TROMBONCINO
  • YELLOW ZEPHYR

SWISS CHARD

April 1, 2025

 

  • ARGENTATA
  • BRIGHT LIGHTS
  • RED RHUBARB

 

TOMATILLOS

April 1, 2025

  • GRAND RIO VERDE- 85 Days – compact (24″ tall and wide) and ripens all at once, great for processing. Grow two or more plants to ensure good pollination. Heat tolerant.
  • PURPLE – 70 Days – compact (20″ tall and wide); purple fruits are much sweeter than the green types and rich in beneficial antioxidants. Let the fruit remain on the plant as long as possible until the husk splits for the best flavor and color. Grow two or more plants to ensure good pollination.

WATERMELON

April 1, 2025

6 Varieties, including:

  • BLACKTAIL MOUNTAIN
  • EARLY MOONBEAM
  • MOON AND STARS
  • SUGAR BABY

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Seasonally, MARCH to OCTOBER.
MARCH HOURS:
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

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Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

JANUARY - FEBRUARY HOURS
Thursday-Saturday, 10AM-4PM

Mondays, CLOSED

The plants we grow are organically grown. All the plants we sell are free of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.