Well, the inventory is finally complete. I'm posting here a list of all
the seedlings we have left to pass along. They are $3 each, and will
mostly come in 9 oz. plastic cups.
Paul
and Lulah will come to town Saturday morning, May 4, to the Farmer's
Market. There are plenty of some, and few of others. Place your orders
early and we'll set them
aside for you. First come first serve.
We may have a few dozen eggs available as well. Let us know if you want some.
We hope you're all enjoying this long slow Spring.
the list:
CHERRY TOMATOES
Peace
Vine - classic little red fruit.
Black
Cherry - Beautiful dusky purple-brown. They have that rich flavor that
makes black tomatoes famous. Large vines yield very well.
Honey
Drop
- orangey-yellow, juicy with a fruity flavor - a lot of genetic
diversity in this variety - can bear any variety of shapes and colors.
Frosted
Green Doctor - these cherries are green when fully ripe - looks like frosted grapes. sweet fruit.
PASTE
Polish
Lingusia - huge, sausage shaped paste tomato with excellent flavor.
San
Marzano La Padino - classic paste tomato - low water content and open seed cavities - high yielding.
REDS
Cosmonaut
Volkov - great flavor on a standard red heirloom from the Ukraine.
Big
Beef - hybrid - combining traditionally delicious flavor
with today's disease resistance.
Goliath - hybrid - long season with wide adaptability and disease resistance.
PINK
Mortgage
Lifter - large smooth fruit with rich sweet taste.
Rose
de Berne - Swiss heirloom with sweet and sturdy 4-8 oz fruits.
BLACK
Paul
Robeson - If you know us, you know this one is a favorite - medium sized
fruits with interesting navels and intense flavor. We've saved this
seed for several years and feel that it's well adapted now.
Sara
Black - purplish brown that we're trialing this year.
Morado - large black tomato (up to 1 lb), purplish pink with green shoulders.
ORANGE
Jubilee - old standard with sweet mild flavor - good size and yield.
Woodle
Orange - good main season producer of round tangerine colored fruits. One of our favorites.
Dad's
Sunset - trialing this one - claims to be a good keeper.
Djena
Lee - another trial variety - this one won first prize at the Chicago Fair 10 years in a row.
YELLOW
Lillian's
Yellow - meaty creamy flesh in a light yellow fruit. bi-lobed and lopsided, but great flavor on an unusual beefsteak type.
PEPPERS
SWEET
New
Ace - hybrid, thin-walled, not blocky, turn red early, good for the
home garden.
Carolina
Wonder - heirloom (our first year saving, so could be variable in its type) - nice green bells that turn bright red when mature.
Golden
Treasure - one of our favorite keepers - Italian heirloom - long golden yellow fruits, so sweet!
HOT
Jalapeno - classic - brown nettign appears as fruit ripens from dark green to dark red.
Lemon
Drop - Seasoning
pepper from Peru ripens to a clear lemon yellow, sometimes with a
dark purple blush. The flavor is a very clean, uncomplicated,
slightly citrus-y heat. 2-foot plants are covered with the
thin-walled, conical fruits which reach 2-3 inches in length, with
very few seeds.
Dorset
Naga - The
Dorset Naga, a chili from Bangladesh, has a Scoville rating of
more 1.6 million units, making it the world's hottest chili.
Bhut
Jalokia - Also
known as Ghost Pepper, Naga Morich. Legendary variety, one of the
world's hottest peppers, if not the hottest, with readings in excess
of 1,000,000 Scoville units! Bhut Jolokia starts out slow but
eventually makes tall plants, exceeding 4 ft in favored locations.
The thin-walled, wrinkled, pointed fruits reach 2-3" in length,
ripening mostly to red.
African
Cayenne - Large vigorous Cayenne pepper.
