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 - Coming Soon!
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Chili Peppers - Soon!
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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 Big Beef Tomato Bumble Bee Sunrise Bush Early Girl Ildi Tomato Lemon Boy Plus Stupice - Small Red Indeterminate - 52 days // 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 Souix - Medium Red Semi Indeterminate - 70 day // Thick walled and tart. Perfect for sandwiches and coking. Extremely heat tolerant making it one of the best tomatoes for the south! Tasmanian Chocolate - Red Beefsteak Determinate - 70 day // Large tasty fruits on attractive, compact (2-3 foot) plants. |
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 Pepper Carranza Chile Cienfuego Chile Early Jalapeno King Arthur Pepper Mini Bell Pepper Tiebetan Lhasa Pepper Dragon Pepper |
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 - 2.00 unless marked differently
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Basil
African Blue - 18 Cilantro Fennel Lavender Goodwin Creek - 35 Munstead - 30 Oregano Parsley Italian Giant Rosemary Barbecue - 98 Tall, upright, hardy Salem - 100 Hardy and humidity tolerant Thyme English - 33 |
Fruits and Veggies
Blueberry
Blueray - 4
19.00 - 1 gallon
Brightwell - 1
19.00 - 1 gallon
Ginger - 2
6.00 - 6" - tropical, Full Sun
Elderberry, Native - 15
9.00 - 1 gallon - Part Sun
Blueray - 4
19.00 - 1 gallon
Brightwell - 1
19.00 - 1 gallon
Ginger - 2
6.00 - 6" - tropical, Full Sun
Elderberry, Native - 15
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/