Plant Sale

We start each season by raising beautiful vegetable seedlings to help you get a great start on your home garden – here in Northern Vermont every little bit counts!

Plants are timed for the last two weeks in May and the first two to three weeks of June. Plants are available at the Hardwick and Morrisville Farmer's Market, or by arrangement. Please call the farm (802-533-9046) to find a time to visit. Below is a listing of varieties we offer to help you with planning.

See our listing below for a sense of what we offer, be aware the varieties may change.

Herbs

  • Basil - Italian large leaf type with disease resistance. Beautiful plants with delightful aroma and flavor.

  • Parsley - Giant of Italy. Dark green flat leaf type is easy to clean.

  • Sage - Broadleaf. Lavender flowers in early summer.

  • Thyme - German winter. Enjoy fresh all season and dry for winter use.

  • Nasturtiums - Jewel Mix. Edible leaves and flowers with peppery flavor brighten salads. Flowers are red, yellow and orange.

Greens, Etc.

  • Artichokes - Tavor. Grow your own artichokes! Any that don't make it to the kitchen will bloom into an outrageous purple flower. Give them plenty of room and fertility for the best crop.

  • Broccoli - Belstar. A large, nicely domed intial head followed by good side shoot production, great choice for the home garden.

  • Brussels Sprouts - Gustus. The most dependable variety we have found. In 2019 our plants grew to waist height! Enjoy an abundance of large sprouts.

  • Cabbage, Early - Golden Acre. Tender attractive heads. Plants can be spaced closely if smaller heads are desired. Quick to mature for early summer coleslaw.

  • Cabbage, Storage - Kaitlin. A great variety for making sauerkraut and kimchi, and any leftovers will store in the cellar til late winter.

  • Kale - Choose Lacinato, Red Curly and Green Curly, or Mix. Kale is a balanced source of calcium and magnesium and delicious as well! A great choice for greens all season long.

  • Lettuce - Lettuce straight from the garden is the best! Set out at 1 foot spacing for mature heads.

Onion Family

  • Yellow Onions - Trailblazer. An ideal variety for our area, matures in August while the weather is good for curing. Stores well all winter.

  • Red Onions - Cabernet. Beautiful deep red skins with a rosy interior. Excellent in greek salads, or quick pickles.

  • Leeks - Lancelot. Long white shafts with dark green leaves are good for late fall harvest and can store for a few months in the cellar.

Squash Family

  • Cucumber, Pickling - Harvest at 2-4” as desired for pickling. Also great eating out of hand.

  • Cucumber, Slicing - 8” fruits. Pick often to keep plants bearing for a longer period.

  • Summer Squash - Smooth skinned yellow crookneck variety.

  • Zuchinni - Dark green and very productive.

Winter Squash

  • Buttercup - Sweet Mama. Dark green skin and bright orange flesh with a deep, sweet flavor.

  • Butternut - Great for soups and pies and long storage when properly cured.

  • Delicata - Beautiful yellow and green striping on the skin. Interior creamy sweet flesh. Well suited to being stuffed and baked.

  • Sweet Potato - For the adventurous grower. Sweet potatoes like it hot, so they do best on black plastic under row cover. Glorious reaching vines produce lovely morning glory type flowers. On a good year, expect 3-8 good sized tubers in the fall. Harvest before frost and store above 50 degrees. $3 each in 3” pots.

Tomato Family

  • Defiant - Defiant is the best choice to withstand Late Blight. Deep red mid-sized slicing variety. Determinate/bush variety. 65 days.

  • Mountain Fresh - The choice of many growers for reliable harvests of big red slicers, this variety is able to tolerate cool and wet conditions. Determinate/bush type. 75 days.

  • New Girl - Earliest to ripen and widely adapted. Better flavor than others in its class. A great tomato for places where it's challenging to get ripe fruit because of short growing seasons. Indeterminate/vining. 62 days.

Heirlooms

  • Amish Paste - Popular heirloom paste tomato with excellent flavor for that old fashioned homemade tomato sauce. Needs ample room to produce ample yields of oxheart shaped fruits with thick bright red flesh. Indeterminate/vining. 85 days

  • Aunt Ruby's German Green - Second only to Brandywine in flavor, and less fussy to grow. Aunt Ruby's enormous lightly striped fruits are green when ripe, with a slight yellow blush on the blossom end. Makes a beautiful green salsa. Indeterminate/vining. 85 days

  • Brandywine - Considered the best tasting of the heirlooms. Brandywine is a large pink slicer that needs full sun and consistent water, but is absolutely worth the effort. The tomato flavor we all long for. Indeterminate/vining. 85 days.

  • Cherokee - Dusky purple skin and brick red flesh. Ranks in the top five for flavor. Large fruits with great texture. Indeterminate/vining. 72 days.

  • Cosmonaut - Sturdy plant tolerates cool weather and produces great yields of mid-sized red slicers with excellent flavor. Indeterminate/vining. 65 days.

  • Pruden's Purple - Early for its size, bears 1 lb pink fruits with a silken texture that some say beats Brandywine for flavor. Indeterminate/vining. 72 days.

Cherry Tomatoes

  • Sungold - It isn't summer without Sun Golds! Quick to ripen, sweet orange cherry tomatoes that are great for snacking right in the garden. Indeterminate/vining. 57 days.

  • Supersweet - 100 Classic red cherry tomato. Widely adapted. Beautiful mixed with Sungolds in a salad. Indeterminate/vining. 60 days.

Sweet Peppers

  • Carmen - Best tasting sweet Italian “Corno di Toro” type. Early and productive even in northern climates. Delicious. 80 days red ripe.

  • Revolution - Enormous thick walled juicy bell pepper ripens red. 72 days.

Hot Peppers

  • Czech Black - Deep purple ripening to cherry red. Slightly less spciy than a Jalapeno. Early bearing, high yielding, stunningly beautiful, and delicious! 65 days red ripe.

  • Early Jalapeno - Dark green early maturing 3” fruits from Veracruz Mexico. Great for stuffing and salsas. 75 days.

  • Helios Habanero - A habanero that matures in the north! Much earlier and higher yielding. Full of the unique fruity flavor that makes habaneros so special. Essential for a flavorful hot sauce. 87 days orange ripe.