Think these plants are just for food? Try adding fruits and vegetables to your existing gardens. It will save labor and looks great! Okra is just a hibiscus, chili peppers add lots of colors to the garden, thyme makes one of the best ground covers, blueberries have amazing fall color, parsley is great for adding texture to mixed pots, and I'm not even going to mention swiss chard! The list goes on!
Tomatoes
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Chili Peppers
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These tomatoes will be ready for planting by the first of April. Assuming the weather holds out! Pro tip, ignore any one that mentions "last frost date". Frost means something different to tropical vines, which is what tomatoes are. Never plant a tomato until night time lows are in the 50's.
Andiamo Tomato - 0 65 day Indeterminate - Strong San Marzano type Roma with excellent flavor Big Beef Tomato - 0 75 day indeterminate - Deep red and very sweet 10-15oz fruits, on hearty disease resistant plants Bumble Bee Sunrise - 0 70 day indeterminate - Red and yellow striped cherry tomato with a sweet yet tangy flavor. High yields over a long period Bush Early Girl - 0 54 Day determinate - Compact plants with large yields of 4" fruits Ildi Tomato - 0 53 Day Indeterminate - Yellow grape tomato that grows on large trusses of 70+ fruits. Lemon Boy Plus - 0 75 Day Indeterminate - Yellow, sweet 6 oz fruits. Very disease resistant Stupice - 0 52 days indeterminate - Cherry tomato bred for colder northern European climates. In Oklahoma, they set and ripen fast to ensure a large crop of sweet fruits before the summer heat hits. Super Sioux- 0 70 day semi-determinate - Thick walled and tart. Perfect for sandwiches and coking. Extremely heat tolerant making it one of the best tomatoes for the south! Tasmanian Chocolate - 5 70 day dwarf - Large tasty fruits on attractive, compact (2-3 foot) plants. Great flavor perfect for patios and small spaces Zapotec Oaxacan Ribbed - 2 85 Day Indeterminate - Mexican heirloom variety with 1lb fruits. Slightly hollow, perfect for grilling or stuffing |
Similar story for chilis, they are a tropical shrub. Wait for warm nights, or even better, check mesonet.org for soil temps. 2" in the 60's is perfect!
Aruba Chile - 0 65 Day - 10" long fruited Cubanelle type. Fruity and lightly hot. High yields Carranza Chile Cienfuego Chile - 0 80 day - Early ripening orange habanero type chile with a bright, fruity flavor. 200,000 to 300,000 scoviles Dragon Pepper - 0 75 day - Grilling pepper, hybrid of shishito and padron. Sweet when picked green and when allowed to ripen to red on the plant, they can be as hot as a jalapeno. Early Jalapeno - 0 Mini Bell Pepper - 60 day Tibetan Lhasa Pepper - 0 70 day - Attractive plants that produce high yields of a spicy and fragrent chile pods that are great fresh, cooked, or dried. |
Much of the produce in grocery stores has been sitting in the store's back room, on trucks, or in wholesale warehouses for weeks to months! Grocery Store tomatoes (even so called vine ripened) are picked green so they are firm, packed well, and then dosed with ethylene gas to mimic ripe fruit flavors. The only way to know what a tomato (or cucumber, potato, strawberry, or watermelon) really tastes like, is to grow it!
Local and Organically Grown Herbs - 4.00 unless marked differently
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Basil
Cardinal - 12 Lettuce Leaf Sweet - 16 Emerald Towers - 10 Tulsi - 17 Catnip - 3 Cilantro - 1 Fennel Bronze - 19 Finocchio - 15 Feverfew - 5 Lavender Grosso - 35 Munstead - 30 Phenomenal - 8 Oregano Compact - 18 Hot and Spicy - 18 |
Sage, Bergertten - 18
Salad Burnett - 17
Sweet Mace - 15
Thyme
Lemonade - 28
Salad Burnett - 17
Sweet Mace - 15
Thyme
Lemonade - 28
Fruits and Veggies
Blackberry
Apache - 2
Ouachita - 8
Blueberry
Blueray - 4
19.00 - 1 gallon
Brightwell - 1
19.00 - 1 gallon
Tiffblue - 3
19.00 - 1 gallon
Eggplant, Fairy Tale - 13
4.00 - 4"
Elderberry, Native - 5
9.00 - 1 gallon - Part Sun
Apache - 2
Ouachita - 8
Blueberry
Blueray - 4
19.00 - 1 gallon
Brightwell - 1
19.00 - 1 gallon
Tiffblue - 3
19.00 - 1 gallon
Eggplant, Fairy Tale - 13
4.00 - 4"
Elderberry, Native - 5
9.00 - 1 gallon - Part Sun
Gardening is an easy way to get anybody outside! Having children help plant edible plants can help improve self confidence, it's great exercise, and children are more likely to eat something they grew themselves! It also helps solidify math and science skills being taught in school.
http://www.pbs.org/parents/expert-tips-advice/2016/03/gardening-kids-affects-childs-brain-body-soul/
http://www.pbs.org/parents/expert-tips-advice/2016/03/gardening-kids-affects-childs-brain-body-soul/
Other Edibles, Please Contact us for Prices
Coffea arabica // Yes, that coffee!
Cacao // Yes, grow your own chocolate!
Cacao // Yes, grow your own chocolate!
https://www.southernliving.com/home-garden/reasons-to-grow-your-own-vegetables
Butterfield, Bruce. ''Impact of Home and Community Gardening In America.'' The National Gardening Association (2009): 1-17. Accessed April 2009. http://www.gardenresearch.com.
http://www.plangarden.com/app/vegetable_value/
Butterfield, Bruce. ''Impact of Home and Community Gardening In America.'' The National Gardening Association (2009): 1-17. Accessed April 2009. http://www.gardenresearch.com.
http://www.plangarden.com/app/vegetable_value/