75 days, Greek Heirloom, Indeterminate
Beautiful, smooth, round, red, baseball-sized (5 to 8 oz.) tomatoes with outstanding, rich, balanced, classic flavor. Resists cracking, blemish, sun scald and rot. Great for slicing, salads, canning and keeps well. Plants are very productive and very dependable, and Eve always includes Thessaloniki in her tomato patch. If you have room for just one indeterminate tomato variety, this may be the one!
Vegetables
TIDY TREATS
50-60 days, Hybrid, Dwarf Indeterminate
Bred specifically for container growing, this dwarf vining tomato is quite early, high-yielding and, best of all – the 1” fruits are sweet and tasty. Johnny’s Seeds considers it the best cherry tomato for patio containers. Dwarf plants stay a manageable size, to 3-4’ tall, with healthy green foliage, and are easily tamed with a tomato cage or trellis.
TUMBLING TOM, YELLOW
65-70 days, Hybrid, Indeterminate
Abundant crops of tasty, sweet 1-2 oz. golden-yellow cherry tomatoes are borne on stems that cascade freely from window-boxes, tall containers, or pots on stands, trailing up to 24”. Fruits set continuously through the summer on attractive, healthy, disease-resistant plants. Although one plant can fill a 12” diameter pot, several can be planted together in a larger pot.
Garlic – Chesnok Red (organic, hard-neck)
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Regularly wins acclaim and awards as one of the best tasting baking/roasting garlics!
Collected in 1985 in the Rep. of Georgia, this highly productive, easy-to-grow ‘Purple-Striped’ garlic makes beautiful, large deep-purple bulbs. Eaten raw, its intense heat quickly dissipates, but cooking and baking truly bring out its earthy, rich garlic complexities, very aromatic with a rich, smooth sweetness and just a touch of heat.
The cloves are more numerous (~8-20) and elongated than most hard-neck types and are initially hard to peel, allowing Chesnok Red to store much longer than other hard-necks – up to a year! But cloves become easier to peel the longer they store. Like other hard-neck varieties, it also produces curling, edible ‘scapes’ in June. Garlic is a heavy feeder, so feed your soil well!
Plants are vigorous and upright, can handle a little neglect, an are great multipliers, growing large bulbs from even medium-sized cloves.
Garlic – German Porcelain (organic, hard-neck)
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One of the best hard-neck garlics for flavor and keeping, this robust and extra-hardy heirloom variety in the Porcelain group offers large, impressive 2.5 to 3” bulbs with 4-6 easy-to-peel jumbo cloves for easy kitchen use. Beautiful well-formed bulbs are wrapped in thick white luxuriant parchment-like skins with inner layers splashed red-purple, almost too beautiful to eat. Cloves are usually striped with purple.
Flavor is rich, garlicky, and medium hot. Grows well in any climate. Stores at least 6 months, up to 8 to 9 months when stored properly (in a cool dark place).
Garlic – Musik (organic, hard-neck)
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Musik garlic from Starling Farm, Boulder
We are thrilled to offer one of our favorite hardneck garlic varieties from the farm of one of our favorite local musicians, Gregory Alan Isakov! Starling Farm, located in Boulder County, Colorado, is a six-acre farm focused on small-scale, bio-intensive market gardening. They produce a wide variety of vegetables, seeds and flowers—all grown with organic practices and high integrity. This year, 2022, marks their eighth growing season.
Musik is one of the most popular hard-neck varieties, a “Garlic Lovers” garlic, prized for being incredibly flavorful, well-developed, complex and spicy, without any bitterness. Flavor ranges from spicy when raw to a hot and aromatic, true gourmet garlic flavor when cooked; one clove can add a lot of flavor to any recipe! A porcelain type, it is exceptionally cold-hardy, productive and robust; plants can reach 3-4’ tall with dark green leaves stabilized by long roots. White-skinned with a blush of pink, bulbs are 2” diameter or larger, with 4-5 easy-to-peel jumbo cloves. Musik is easy to grow and keeps well until April or May when stored properly, up to 9 months to a year.
Musik has a notably high content of allicin, a powerful antioxidant and cold & flu fighter.
Harvest when lower 4-5 leaves have dried. Dry and hang out of direct light in a warm area with good air circulation. After they have dried for 2-3 weeks, cut off the stem, 1″ from the bulb and trim roots.
Garlic – Spanish Roja (hard-neck)
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This vigorous, easy-to-grow heirloom variety arrived in the US over 100 years ago. It is famous for its classic rich, complex ‘true garlic’ flavor and is one of the most popular with restaurants/chefs. The large, purple streaked bulbs often reach three inches in diameter and typically have seven to twelve large tan cloves. Spanish Roja peels easily and keeps for up to 4-6 months when properly stored (the outer bulb wrappers are thin and flake off easily so be careful to keep them intact to prolong storage). Like all hard-neck garlic, Spanish Roja will produce curly ‘scapes’ (flowering stems), which can be snipped off and used for another culinary treat in late spring. This variety grows well in cold winter areas, and is cold-hardy to Zone 3.
Garlic – Svea Red (hard-neck)
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A late-season Porcelain-type, Svea is the ‘chunky tuna’ of Porcelains, producing large, flattened bulbs with 5 to 8 fat, easy-to-peel cloves. The colorful bulbs show red and purple stripes on their skins and clove wrappers. Blessed with strong, spicy-hot flavor when raw, the flavor mellows to a tasty nuttiness when roasted or baked.