2024 Plant List

So Many Great Choices For Your Gardens And Containers This Season!

We will have a wide selection of vegetables, herbs, flowers and native plants available over the course of the 2024 season. Cool weather/early spring plants are available beginning in March/April depending on the weather, warm weather/late spring plants are available beginning in late April or early May. We are planning to have all the following varieties, and possibly many more, but it is always dependent on germination, weather conditions and seed supply.

All plants will be listed in the Online Farmstand as they become available. Please note that if a plant is listed as “Sold Out” it will be back in stock soon - we’re just waiting for the next generation to be ready for planting. Check back often!

Early Spring, Cool Season Seedlings

Generally available in late March, April, May, June and early July. Many Can Also Be Grown Through The Summer And Fall.

• Arugula - Classic arugula

• Beets - Dark Red or Chioggia (red and white striped) varieties

• Bok Choi - Dark green leaves with white stems

• Broccoli - Heat tolerant broccoli variety, good for spring, summer and fall production

• Cabbage - Green, Purple/Red, or Napa varieties, all produce medium sized heads

• Cauliflower - Classic white cauliflower, plant in spring and harvest in the late summer/early fall

• Celeriac - AKA celery root, plant in mid spring, harvest in mid to late fall

• Celery - Tango, an adaptable celery variety, does well under a range of growing conditions

• Chard - Bright Lights Mix, great for spring, summer and fall growing

• Collard Greens - Large, round leaves, great for spring, summer and fall growing

• Escarole - Natacha Escarole has tender leaves with a mild slightly bitter flavor

• Kale - Garden Mix, Curly Green Leaf or Dark Green Smooth Dinosaur Kale (aka Toscano Kale aka Lacinato Kale aka Dragon Kale) varieties, great for spring, summer and fall growing

• Kohlrabi - Purple bulb with green leaves

• Leeks – Plant in spring and harvest summer or fall

• Lettuce - Mix, red leaf, green leaf or romaine varieties, great for spring, summer and fall growing

• Mixed Greens - Mix of Mustard Greens, Frills, Arugula, Choi, Kale, Mizuna, and more

• Mizuna Mild Mustard - Mild, savory green

• Onions - Yellow Storage, Red Storage, Sweet Yellow Ailsa Craig, Sweet Red Tropea, and Sweet Yellow Cippolini, plant in spring, harvest in summer or early fall

• Potatoes  - choose from red, gold or white varieties, all excellent for new potatoes harvested early, or for mid summer harvest of mature potatoes

• Radicchio - Indigo Radicchio has tight purple heads with white veins

• Frills Spicy Mustard - Red or green frilly leaves, aka wasabi greens

• Scallions - Hardy white scallions, often called green onions

• Southern Giant Green Mustard - Bright green, slightly frilly leaves, lots of heat when eaten raw

• Red Mustard Greens – Dark red, broad, slightly frilly leaves, moderate heat when eaten raw

• Spinach - Classic spinach

• Shelling Peas - Classic shelling peas, 5 to 6 foot vines

• Sugar Snap Peas- Green - Sugar Ann dwarf sugar snaps (3-4 feet) or Super Sugar Snap (6+ feet) varieties

• Sugar Snap Peas - Purple - Sugar snaps in a deep purple color (2-3 feet vines)

• Snow Peas - Large podded snow peas, 3-4 feet vines

• Tatsoi - Asian green similar to Spinach; darkly colored and crunchy

• Turnips - Hakurei (White Salad Turnips) - crunchy and sweet, great for eating raw

Late Spring, Warm Season Seedlings.

Generally available in late April, May, June and early July

• Peppers

Hot Peppers

• Anaheim Chili - Large, elongated chile peppers ultimately ripen red, great for roasting

• Banana, Hot - Long and thin yellow peppers; great for pickling

• Baron Poblano - A large, dark green poblano

• Carolina Reaper - Currently ranked as the hottest pepper in the world

• Cayenne - Long, hot pepper, ripen red

• Early Jalapeno - An early season, medium sized jalapeno pepper, great for ripening to red for hot sauce

• Fish Serrano – Heirloom serrano pepper, beautiful streaking colors, with great taste

• Santo Domingo Serrano – Large serrano pepper, starts green, ripens red

• Ghost - Until recently, the 3rd hottest pepper in the world, aka Bhut Jolokia

• Jedi Jalapeno - A mid season, larger sized jalapeno pepper

• Hot Paper Lantern Red Habanero - Very spicy red habaneros. These ripen well in New England.

• Scotch Bonnet - Very hot pepper in the habanero family, ripen orange

• Thai Hot - Tiny red hot peppers, great bite

Bell/Mild/Sweet Peppers

• Ace - Classic bell pepper, starts green, ripens red, heavy producer

• Aji Dulce - Small, sweet pepper with mild heat; common in Caribbean cooking

• Banana, Sweet - Mild, sweet pepper; great for pickling or eating

• Cupid - Mini bell pepper; very sweet and great for snacking; ripens to red

• Eros - Mini bell pepper; sweet and fruity; great for snacking; ripens to orange

• Escamillo Bull's Horn- Long, sweet bull's horn shaped peppers ripen yellow

• Flavorburst - Bell pepper, starts lime green, ripens yellow

• King Of The North - Classic bell pepper, starts green, ripens red, reliably ripens in New England

• Lipstick - Mini red bell peppers; very sweet and snackable; ripens well in the area

• Lunchbox Orange - Mini orange bell peppers – the Sungolds of the pepper family

• Pimento - Small, heart shaped red pepper

• Purple Beauty - Bell pepper, starts purple, ripens red

• Jimmy Nardello – Heirloom Italian Frying pepper, long thin peppers start green and ripen red

• Cubanelle – an excellent frying pepper, the fruit starts green and ripens red

• Lilo or Islander – bell pepper, fruits start lavender and ripen red

• Shishito – heavy yields of 1x3½" fruits, start green and ripen red, great for frying

• Carmen Bull's Horn – large, sweet bull's horn shaped peppers ripen red

• Eggplant

• Dancer - Long lavender eggplant

• Fairy Tale - Small 3 to 4” lavender and white striped non bitter eggplant

• Galine Italian - Classic Italian bell shaped eggplant

• Orient Express - Dark purple, long and narrow Asian eggplant. Early

• Patio Baby - The best container variety, mini purple Italian eggplant shaped fruit, spineless. Early

• Cucumbers

• Little Leaf Pickling - Small pickling cucumbers, heavy producers

• Lemon - Small round yellow cucumbers, slight citrus flavor, late

• Marketmore Slicing - Classic green slicing cucumber

• Mexican Sour Gherkins - AKA Cucamelons AKA Mouse Melons, tiny watermelon shaped cucumbers

• Snacking - Crisp, sweet, and flavorful with smooth skin. Perfect for lunchboxes!

• Summer Squash & Zucchini

• 8 Ball Round Zucchini - Round zucchini good for stuffing

• Classic zucchini - Straight, green zucchini

• Costata Romanesco Zucchini - Lower yielding (for a zucchini!), but wonderful flavor, dark and light green stripes along the sides, Italian heirloom

• Yellow Crookneck - Classic yellow crookneck, not warty, good flavor, thin skin

• Sunburst Pattypan - Yellow and green, star shaped patty pan, sweet, great flavor

• Melons

• Sugar Cube Cantaloupe - a smaller, very sweet cantaloupe, great flavor, early

• Hannah's Choice Cantaloupe – a larger cantaloupe with a sweet, rich flavor

• Moon and Stars Watermelon - smaller sized, sweet watermelon with yellow moon and stars splotches over dark green rind

• Sangria Watermelon - Classic large sweet watermelons, pink flesh, has seeds

• Sugar Baby Watermelon - Small round sweet watermelons, pink flesh, has seeds

• Tomatoes

Heirloom Slicing Tomatoes

• Ananas Noire - Green with mottled pink and red, late, beefsteak

• Aunt Ruby's German Green - Green beefsteak, bottom blushes pink when ripe, late season

• Black Krim - Dark purple with green shoulders

• Black Prince - Dark purple early/mid season

• Brandywine - Big pink, mid season beefsteak. The most famous heirloom

• Carbon - Big dark purple/chocolate

• Cherokee Purple - Early season chocolate purple

• Cosmonaut Volkov - Classic red beefsteak, mid season

• Garden Peach - Small and yellow with a slight fruity taste

• German Johnson - Big pink beefsteak, early

• Great White - Mid season pale yellow beefsteak

• Green Zebra - Smaller yellow and green striped tomatoes mid season

• Hillbilly - Mid season yellow beefsteak with red and orange stripes

• Japanese Black Trifele - Pear shaped black/purple with green shoulders, mid season

• Kellogg's Breakfast - Mid season orange beefsteak, no relation to the cereal company

• Lillian's Yellow - Late season pale yellow beefsteak

• Mark Twain - Red beefsteak, mid season

• Moskvich - Early season red beefsteak

• Paul Robeson - Mid to late season chocolate/red. Has a cult like following

• Pineapple - Large mid to late season yellow/orange/red beefsteak.

• Pink Berkeley Tie Dye - Mid season striped pink/purple/green beefsteak

• Pruden's Purple - Large pink beefsteak, early/mid season

• Rose de Berne - Medium sized perfect pink

• Striped German - Mid season yellow beefsteak with red and orange stripes

• Tiffen Mennonite - Large mid season pink beefsteak

• Valencia - Medium sized orange

• Yellow Brandywine - Large yellow beefsteak, mid/late season

Hybrid Slicing Tomatoes

• Big Beef - Red beefsteak, mid season

• Celebrity - Classic red mid season

• Jet Star - Big red, mid season

• New Girl - Medium sized red, early, similar to Early Girl but with better disease resistance

• 4th of July – Heavy producer of very early, 4 oz red tomatoes

• Martha Washington - Medium sized pink slicer, with thin skin and wonderful flavor

Container Friendly Tomatoes

• Adelaide Festival - 3-4 foot plant, grows well in containers, medium sized pink fruit

• Perfect Harmony - 3-4 foot plant, grows well in containers, medium sized orange/yellow fruit

• Chocolate Lightning - 3-4 foot plant, grows well in containers, medium sized chocolate brown fruit with pink streaks

• Dwarf Arctic Rose - 3-4 foot plant, grows well in containers, medium sized pink fruit

• Extreme Bush - 2-3 foot plant, grows well in containers, 2 bite sized red tomatoes, early

• New Big Dwarf - 3-4 foot plant, grows well in containers, medium sized red/pink fruit

• Rosella Purple - 3-4 foot plant, grows well in containers, medium sized dark purple fruit

• Russian Swirl - 3-4 foot plant, grows well in containers, medium sized yellow and red streaked fruit

• Sleeping Lady - 3-4 foot plant, grows well in containers, medium sized chocolate/red fruit

• Tasmanian Chocolate - 3-4 foot plant, grows well in containers, medium sized chocolate brown fruit

• Tiny Tim - 1-2 foot plant, grows well in containers, red cherry tomato sized fruit, earliest of all tomatoes

Sauce Tomatoes

• Oxheart - Large, meaty, red paste tomato

• Opalka Paste - Large, red bullhorn shaped paste tomatoes, meaty.

• San Marzano - Classic, medium sized, red sauce tomatoes. Italian heirloom.

• Striped Roman - Red and yellow striped paste tomato, good for cooking or fresh eating, also called
  Speckled Roman

• Orange Oxheart - Orange paste tomato, sweet and fruity with few seeds

• Roma - Classic, red sauce tomato

Cherry & Saladette Tomatoes

• Black Cherry - Big dark purple/chocolate cherry tomatoes, heirloom

• Chocolate Cherry - Chocolate/red cherry tomatoes, heirloom

• Citrine - Orange cherry tomato; hybrid

• Esterina - Heavy producer of golden yellow cherry tomatoes

• Jaune de Flamme - 2oz orange tomatoes, aka Saladette sized, sweet, heavy producer, heirloom

• Juliet - Mini red plums good for eating or cooking, good disease resistance

• Mountain Magic - 2oz red tomatoes, aka Saladette sized, good disease resistance

• Matt's Wild Cherry – heirloom, prolific producer of small red cherry tomatoes

• Peacevine - Open pollinated red cherry tomatoes, heavy producer

• Pink Bumblebee - Big, pink striped cherry tomatoes

• Pink Tiger - Long, plum shaped red/pink/yellow striped cherry tomatoes

• Red Pear - Classic red pear shaped cherries, heirloom

• Red Pearl Grape - Red grape tomatoes, good disease resistance

• Sungold - The sweetest of all the cherry tomatoes, orange bite sized

• Sunrise Bumblebee - Big yellow and pink striped cherry tomatoes

• Supersweet 100 - Heavy producers of red cherry tomatoes

• Valentine - Red grape tomato; high yielding

• Yellow Pear - Classic yellow pear shaped cherries, heirloom

Additional Summer Crops

• Ground Cherries – AKA Husk Cherries, plants produce tiny yellow/orange ground cherries

• Bitter melon - cucumber relative has an elongated shape resembling a squash; pastel green and bumpy; Jade Dragon variety, quite bitter. Great in stir fry, but has many culinary and medicinal uses!

• Clemson Spineless Okra - 3-5” green okra pods, variety does well in New England, beautiful flowers

• Callaloo - Red and green leafy plant grows well in summer when other leafy greens slow down, AKA red vegetable amaranth

• Fennel - Big rounded bulbs with anise flavor

• Provider Bush Beans - Heavy producer of green beans. Plant multiple rounds to ensure a supply all season. Grow well from seed too.

• Rhubarb - Large and tender stalks. Do not harvest in first year; rhubarb benefits from an establishment year.

• Strawberries, Alpine - Produces small, conical berries

• Strawberries, classic - Albion, an everbearing, day-neutral variety, produces large berries

• Tomatillos - Classic green tomatillos, get 2 or more plants for pollination, unless your neighbors have them too

Late Spring, Warm Season Seedlings - Fall Crops

Winter Squash & Pumpkins

• Acorn Squash - Green acorn squash, good disease resistance

• Butternut Squash - Classic tan butternut, variety developed in Waltham

• Delicata Squash - Striped orange and yellow zeppelin shaped squash, aka sweet potato squash

• Jack O Lanterns - Big orange pumpkins for carving; approx 20-25 lbs.

• Cinnamon Girl Sugar Pumpkins - Orange pumpkins, make wonderful pie and baked goods

• Sunshine Kabocha Squash - Bright orange skin and flesh

• Winter Sweet Kabocha Squash - Pale green skin, dark orange flesh, good storage squash

• Honeynut squash – Small, very sweet, orange/tan squash shaped like a mini butternut

Other Fall Harvested Crops

• Brussels Sprouts - Plant in late spring, harvest in mid to late fall

Herbs

• Anise Hyssop - Great bedding plant and edible flowers and leaves, aromatic, sweet licorice mint flavor

• Sweet basil - Classic sweet basil, annual

• Purple Sweet basil - Purple leaves, tastes like classic basil, annual

• Lemon basil - Lemon scent and flavor, small leaves, annual

• Thai basil - Classic Thai basil, purple and green, annual

• Everleaf container basil - Disease resistant basil particularly well suited to growing in containers, annual

• Sacred Basil - Also known as Holy basil or Tulsi, it is often used as a tea or for its many medicinal properties

• Borage - Edible purplish flowers with mild cucumber flavors, annual.

• Catnip - Perennial, grow for cats or make teas or other culinary/medicinal preparations

• Chamomile - Small, sweet smelling daisy like flowers, often made into tea, perennial

• Chives - Perennial

• Garlic chives - Perennial, delicate garlic flavor

• Cilantro - Plant repeatedly, all cilantro goes to seed within 4 to 8 weeks. If you let it go to seed (coriander) and water the seeds in, you'll have new plants germinating soon

• Dill - Prolific green leaves, yellow flowers, annual

• Lavender, Sweet - Classic lavender, prefers well drained soil, perennial

• Lavender, Provence - Perennial. Grows shrub-like, up to 24" tall with purple flowers.

• Lemon Balm - Strongly lemon flavored perennial, grows like mint, perennial

• Lemon Grass - East Indian lemon grass, annual

• Lemon Verbena – Strong lemon flavored leaves, makes a great tea, annual

• Lovage – celery like perennial commonly used in soups

• Sweet Marjoram - Sweet marjoram, annual

• Mint - Classic spearmint, perennial or choose Mint Julep or Mojito Mint, both varieties of spearmint

• Variegated peppermint – classic peppermint flavor with multicolored leaves, perennial

• Chocolate Mint - Chocolate and mint flavor, perennial

• Orange Mint - Mint and orange flavor, perennial

• Pineapple Mint - Mint and pineapple flavor, with fuzzy white and green leaves perennial

• Italian Oregano – Excellent oregano flavor, perennial herb

• Greek Oregano - Classic oregano. Perennial herb.

• Curly Leaf Parsley - Annual

• Flat Leaf Italian Parsley - Annual

• Rosemary - Classic rosemary, not hardy, grow as an annual or bring indoors, or ARP Rosemary, hypothetically hardy to 15 degrees F

• Rosemary, Barbeque - Thick stems can be used as skewers on the grill

• Rosemary, Hill Hardy - Classic rosemary, not actually hardy, grow as an annual or bring indoors, but some years it does make it through the winter outside if we mulch it heavily

• Sage – Extracta, a classic broadleaf sage, perennial; also choose from Golden,Tri-Colored, and Grower's Friend

• Pineapple Sage – beautiful annual plant with red flower spikes beloved by pollinators

• Sorrel - Perennial leafy crop with dark red veins. Beautiful plant, intense lemony flavor

• Spilanthes - Produces bright yellow edible flowers with a spicy-citrus flavor

• Stevia - Sweet leaves that can be used as a sugar alternative

• Tarragon - Prefers well drained soil. Mild anise flavor. Annual in New England

• German Winter Thyme - Perennial, short lavender flowers, grows as a mat and spreads

• Lavender Thyme - Low growing perennial, with hints of lavender

• Summer Savory - Peppery flavor adds spice to dishes, annual

• Winter Savory - Perennial cousin of summer savory, flavor is more pungent

Flowers

• Jewel Mix Nasturtium - Mix of orange, white, yellow, red flowers, edible

• Lemon Star Marigold - Small, lemon yellow flowers, edible

• Pinwheel Marigold – dramatically patterned yellow, brown and orange flowers

• Durango Mix Marigold - Beautiful, prolific marigold flowers in a mix of reds, yellows and oranges.

• Queen Sophia Marigold - Dark orange petals with a yellow border, also known as French marigolds. As with all marigolds, they're edible and attractive to beneficial insects.

• Zinnia Mixes - Mix of colors, choose from Jim Bagget's Choix Mix, Benary's Giant Mix or Oklahoma Mix

• Cosmos Mixes -Chose from Bright Lights Mix, Blush Cupcakes, Double Click, Fizzy White, Rubenza, Versailles, or Xsenia

• Teddy Bear Sunflower - Dwarf sunflowers with fuzzy yellow blooms

• Autumn Beauty Sunflower - Branching gold/red/brown sunflowers, grow up to 6 feet

• Soraya Sunflower - Branching gold sunflowers with dark centers, grow up to 6 feet

• Evening Colors Mix Sunflower – a mix of varieties with gold, red, brown and yellow colors, grow up to 6 feet

• Mammoth Sunflower – truly mammoth sunflower with massive heads, over 10 feet

• Sunny Smile Sunflower- classic sunflower look on a small branching plant, usually 2-3 feet

• Goldy Double Sunflower – fuzzy yellow sunflowers, usually 4-6 feet

• Bachelor's Buttons – Magic Mix (purples) or Classic Mix (white, pink, blue/lavender), edible flowers

• Calendula – Flashback Mix, Orange Button or Ivory Princess, edible flowers

• Bee Balm - Panorama Mix, a perennial variety with semi double blooms in pinks and lavenders, or Lemon Mint, an annual variety. Both attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. They are plants native to North America

• Celosia – choose from Chief Mix, Pampas Plume or Supercrest

• Columbines – McKanna Giants Mix – large flowers in a range of colors

• Echinacea Cheyenne Spirit – vivid red, orange, purple, scarlet, cream, yellow, and white blooms can be used as cuts or as high-impact landscaping or container plants. Attracts and is a food source for bees, perennial

• Echinachea purpurea -Vigorous plants with large, purple-petaled flowers. Attracts and is a food source for bees. Also known as purple coneflower and eastern purple coneflower, perennial, native plant

• Rudbeckia, Annual Varieties – choose from Cherokee Sunset Mix, Gloriosa Double Daisy, Goldilocks or Prairie Sun mix – all are North American native plants

• Rudbeckia , Perennial Variety – Goldsturm, also a North American native plant

• Salvia – Victoria Blue

• Statice – choose from Forever Silver, Pastel Mix, Seeker Blue or Seeker Purple

• Strawflower – choose from Copper Red, Creamy White, Purple Red or Sultane Mix

• Yarrow – choose from Flowerburst or Summer Pastels

• Bee Feed Mix – a mix of annuals and perennials popular with bees

• Butterfly and Hummingbird Mix -– a mix of annuals and perennials popular with butterflies and hummingbirds

• Beneficial Insect Attractant Mix – a mix of annuals and perennials popular with beneficial insects

Native Plants – many more will be available in fall

• Echinachea purpurea -Vigorous plants with large, purple-petaled flowers. Attracts and is a food source for bees. Also known as purple coneflower and eastern purple coneflower, perennial.

• Rudbeckia, Annual Varieties – choose from Cherokee Sunset Mix, Gloriosa Double Daisy, Goldilocks or Prairie Sun mix – all are North American native plants

• Rudbeckia , Perennial Variety – Goldsturm, also a North American native plant

• Asters – choose from New England, Frost, Smooth Blue, Heath, Flat Topped, Heart Leaved, Swamp or Calico. All are New England native plants

• Milkweed – choose from Common, Whorled, Rose or Poke. All are New England native plants

• Spotted Bee Balm – a New England native plant

• Joe Pye – choose from Common, Hollow or Sweet. All are New England native plants

• Blue Vervain Verbena – a New England native plant, beautiful flowers

• Red Columbine – a New England native plant, bright red flower

• Hairy Beardtongue – a New England native plant

• Lobelias – choose from Pale Spiked, Cardinal Flower or Great Blue, all New England native plant

• Asclepias – aka Butterfly Weed, popular with pollinators, a New England native plant