Starts

Basil

Napolitano - A little spicier and more complex than Genovese.

Catnip

Catnip - This strain has been endorse by cats from coast to coast including Mr. Kitters, Gabriel, the late lamented Jasmine, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Fluffy, Lillian, and so many others

Celery

Giant Red - More powerful flavor than green celery. The hearts are pink and cream colored.

Chives

Cucumber

Little Leaf - A pickling cucumber suitable for container growing

Eggplant

Asian Eggplant - Long, slim Asian-style eggplant.
Galine - Glossy black fruit with a green calyx. Fairly early and productive

Ground Cherry

Aunt Molly's

Herbs

Chives - We have both garlic and onion chives. Both are nice additions to salad or make a lovely garnish on many dishes.
Marjoram - Similar to Oregano, with more refined flavor. Used often in French cooking. A tender perennial which may survive light frost.
Sage - An essential culinary herb, which is also a beautiful perennial landscape plant.
Thyme - Another essential culinary herb. We have several varieties available as starts

Marjoram

Onions, Early

Catawissa Top-setting - Heirloom topsetting and multiplying red onion, harvested as a spring onion.

Onions, Full Season

Onion Mix - A generous pot of mixed onion varieties, for transplanting

Oregano

Italian Oregano - Definitely more robust

Peppers, Hot

Beaver Dam - Beaver Dam: Shaped like a hefty bull's horn pepper, with rich flavor. Not as hot as a jalapeno. Great for spaghetti sauce or roasting. The grower (in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) who preserved this variety says it?s good on bologna and cheese sandwiches. You have to understand that bologna in Wisconsin comes in a ring, tastes great, and has no relationship to that stuff in the blister package at the grocery store.
Jalapeno - You know what a jalapeno is like. Ours are pretty hot.
Leutschauer - A Hungarian paprika pepper. New to us this year. Medium hot, good for drying
Mirasol - Traditional Mexican and New Mexican chili, ripens from green to translucent red, held upright on the plant. Heat around the same level as jalapenos.
Purple Cayenne - A Cayenne with lovely dark foliage, purple until very ripe, when it turns a darker red than regular cayennes. New in 2011

Peppers, Sweet

Bull Nose Green Bell - Early, Productive, fine flavor.
Red Marconi - Small, bright red, very sweet. A good variety for container growing.

Sage

Sorrel

Garden Sorrel

Tomatillo

Plaza Latina Giant - Twice as big as ordinary tomatillos, and not as juicy, so it makes nice thick salsa.

Tomato, Big

Brandywine, Suddoth - Large pink beef-steak type, rich, intense tomato flavor.
Cherokee Purple - Unique dusky rose color, flavor rivals Brandywine.
Nostrano - A perfect round red tomato. Seeds came from a tomato purchased at a farmers market in Turino.
Prudens Purple - One of those ugly, odd-shaped heirlooms with amazing flavor. This is the earliest of the big purple heirlooms.

Tomato, Cherry

Be My Baby - A new open-pollinated variety similar to Sweet Baby Girl.
Bi-Color - Yellow and red stripes, 1-2", superb taste like "Big Rainbow."
Black Cherry - It is not a plum, but a perfectly round cherry with classic black tomato flavor, sweet yet rich and complex. Fruit picks clean from the stem and is produced in abundance on vigorous, tall plants.
Brown Berry - Warm reddish brown color and great taste, like all dark tomatoes. Heirloom.
Chocolate Pear - A dark tomato the same size and shape as Yellow pear and red fig.
Galina - A Siberian heirloom. We have been saving and replanting this seed (originally from a seed exchange at an Oregon Tilth meeting) for five years. Productive, sweet, sunshine yellow fruit. This plant keeps going well into fall and can even stand a light frost.
Gobstopper - Early yellow cherry with green interior, fruity and sweet.
Green Doctors - A tasty green cherry tomato. A spontaneous mutation of the variety Dr. Carolyn that occurred in the garden of Amy Goldman of New York. Named Green Doctors for both Carolyn and Amy and it's also the name of a well known trout fly.
Green Pear - The distinctive, 1?, yellowish green fruits are borne in clusters of 6-12 that resemble large muscat grapes. Fruit has a translucent pale-green on the inside. This variety has become popular its unique attractiveness and great flavor.
Pearly Pink - Crisp, incredibly flavorful cherry tomatoes that are bright pink and perfect for snacking. The vines produce very well.
Pomodoro Dattero - "Date Tomato." We got this seed from tomatoes we bought at a farmers market in Padua, Italy in 2004. Although it was January, the tomatoes were delicious. The plants can be pulled right before frost and hung in a sheltered place and the tomatoes will continue to ripen. We have been saving and regrowing the seed since then. A vigorous plant with abundant bright red fruit. The Italians think they are shaped like dates, but if you want to call this a grape tomato, it's ok with us.
Purple Cherry - Another gift seed from a Tilth meeting. This is the most rambunctious plant, which is why a little pruning and sucker pinching is recommended. The fruit is a dusky pink, a little larger than most cherry tomatoes. It has an excellent true tomato taste. It makes a great fresh sauce - no need to peel, just put them in a food processor. The foliage has a distinctive, pleasant aroma.
Red Fig - Red pear shaped tomato. Used as a substitute for figs years ago by gardeners who would pack away crates of dried tomatoes for winter use
Snowberry - The only white-fleshed Cherry Tomato I know of, Snowberry offers an exciting new look for the plate. These 1-inch fruits are creamy yellow on the outside, pure white within, and boast a full-bodied, sweet Tomato tang that everyone in the family will love.
Sungold - Everyone's favorite - intensely flavored bright, golden orange color. Hybrid.
Yellow Pear - We chose it because it beat out 25 other strains of yellow pear in a taste testing at Seed Savers. "Endless supply of 1 1/2" pear tomatoes with great taste."

Tomato, container varieties

Bloody Butcher - Rich deep red inside and out. Medium sized fruits. Strong full-bodied tomato flavor. Moderately high yielding, early ripening.
Dwarf Champion - Good for slicing. Tangy, mild, sweet overtones. Medium fruit. one of two best yielding of the container varieties.
Heartland - Compact 30" plants produce delicious 8 oz. tomatoes until frost. The other best yielding variety.
Polish Dwarf - 1-4 oz red fruit, early and productive, keeps producing throughout the season.
Sophie's Choice - Extra early, flavorful fruit with an orange-red exterior and deep red flesh. Small plants. Can stand cooler weather.

Tomato, Paste

Black Plum - The size and shape of ordinary Roma tomatoes, but very dark in color and with a fantastic rich flavor.
Italian Heart - A Gales Meadow Farm exclusive in our area. The seeds come from an Italian family who settled in the Shenandoah Valley. Pink, good size, pointy blossom end, true Italian flavor.
Polish Linguisa - The best red paste tomato, large fruit with great flavor. Heirloom.
Striped Roman - Long and pointed, red with orange stripes, meaty substance, and great flavor. Good for sauces or slicing.

Tomato, small

Garden Peach - A medium sized yellow. A great color and flavor combination with Green Zebra and Early Girl or Stupice.
Green Zebra - Medium -sized, light green with bright yellow stripes when ripe. This tomato won over seven others in a tomato tasting at Gales Meadow Farm in 2006.
Tiger Tom - One of the first to ripen, 6 oz. fruits with yellow-orange stripes on red skin. Sharp, sweet flavor.
Violet Jasper - They have pretty violet-purple fruit with iridescent green streaks. Fruit weigh 1-3 ounces, are smooth and have good tasting, dark purplish-red flesh. Very high yield.
Wapsipinicon Peach - Heavy producer of 2" peach-shaped fuzzy yellow fruits. Sweet excellent flavor. Named after the Wapsipinicon River in northeast Iowa. Winner of Seed Saver's 2006 Heirloom Tomato Tasting. Indeterminate, 80 days from transplant.