Varieties

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Artichoke

Imperial Star

Standard that has performed great for us each year. Both for full size and Baby

Beans

Jade

Dark green bean. Excellent flavor.

Indy Gold

The best tasting yellow wax I've found.

Midnight Black

New Were gonna try growing dried beans again… no guarantees..Black bean

Calypso

New Another dried bean to trial

Beets

Early Wonder

Our primary beet. Great for greens. Great storage.

Chioggia

Beautiful beet. Concentric pink circles… not sure we have room for more, but who can resist.

Touchstone Gold

Golden beet, very sweet. Good germination and that the biggest problem with yellow beets.

Broccoli

Gypsy

Beautiful broccoli for fall harvests.. Great color and shape.

Imperial

New, still looking for a summer broccoli that does well in heat

Brussels Sprouts

Diablo

New, Oliver was discontinued trying to find next variety

Dimitri

New

Cabbage

Storage #4

As it says, best storage cabbage. Sometimes til March

Ruby Perfection

Very sweet red, also stores well.

Gonzales

A small summer cabbage that’s great for slaw

Famosa

First time last year. Couldn’t imagine the difference until ate some last year. Great flavor!

Carrots

Bolero

Our fall carrot. Beautiful shape, good flavor, and excellent storage.

Nelson

I think these are the sweetest carrots available. Best for fresh eating.

Sugarsnax

This past winter I ate one of these from another farm and was very impressed… 12" long

Rainbow

I'm making my own mix this year. The one available is very tasty.

Cauliflower

Snow Crown

Best in fall. Beautiful full pearly white heads.

Graffiti

New, heat resistance and holds purple color when cooked

Celery

New, several seed companies are sending seeds to see if we have any luck

Collards

Evenstar

New, only organic seed variety available

Corn

Lancelot

best tasting bicolor we've tried, and consistently does well.

Cucumbers

Marketmore

Been growing this for 15 years and it still produces great fruit

Zapata

New Paul Harlow introduced me to this variety. Produces a consistent sized pickler

Eggplant

Galine

Our mainstay black Italian Eggplant, some 2-3 Lbs last year

Fairy Tale

Tender, edible skin, 3-5" pink and white eggplant. I love these things

Hansel

New small white eggplant for greenhouse production

Gretel

New small black eggplant for greenhouse production related to Hansel

Fennel

Finale

New, did better with Fennel last year than expected. Other variety was discontinued

Greens

Arugula

You either love it or… well Ill be nice

Tatsoi

If you like Asian greens, this one has some amazing flavor.

Komatsuna

The best mustard green going. Adds great zing to any dish

Red Choi

Deep burgundy red Bok Choi… same flavor as green

Shuko

Our standard for baby and full size Bok Choi

Prize Choi

New A very tall, white stemmed Bok Choi with dark green leaves. Jumped from the catalog

Yokatta Na

New Asian green…. Sounded good…. Cant remember why

Yukina Savoy

New An improved version of Tastoi

Kale

Redbor

I always think this must be the most nutritious vegetable we grow

Lacinata

The best eating Kale, almost no bitterness

Winterbor

Cornerstone green Kale

Rainbow Lacinata

New a reddish Lacinata… this has to be good

Leeks

King Richard

Long slender leek, nice mild flavor

Tadorna

Shorter leek that has very dark green leaves.

Lettuce

New Red Fire

Good dense red leaf lettuce

PIC 714

Romaine, forms tall heads that resist bolting

Green Star

Green leaf… yup… lotsa people like it

Roxy

New replaces Fireball, our favorite red/green Boston. This ones organic and pelletted seed.

Panisse

New we thought we had found the best lettuce ever-Galisse- was dc'd. Replaced with this

Adrianna

New green butterhead lettuce, will use for early crop in greenhouse

Melons(Water)

Halona

When the weather cooperates your lucky to see these, they get eaten where the grow.

Peace

If you’ve never eaten yellow watermelon you don’t know what your missing

Sangria

Full size red watermelon that does very well in Vermont, ok accept 2009

Onions

Ambition

New replaces Prisma, red shallot. This variety looks like it will have more uniformity

Saffron

Golden Shallot some were like small onions, very sweet

Red Marble

Red Cippolini, has a tart and sweet flavor, very unique great for roasting

Borettana Cippolini

New Yellow Cippolini….trialing

Copra

yellow onion, great fresh or stores forever

Red Wing

Deep, dark, delicious red onion. Amazing color when sold fresh

Olympic

Early yellow onion with full size

Peas

Sugar Ann

sugar snaps, need I say more

Green Arrow

did well last year, 8-10 peas in a pod

Peppers

Chocolate

Brown sweet peppers who would have thought

Habanero

Sometimes your hot… a beautiful orange variety

New Ace

Our primary green pepper that turns red

Carmen

A long Italian roasting pepper that turns a crimson red

King Krimson

New Trialing a new green pepper for better resistances

Corno DiToro

New A long sweet yellow pepper that complements Carmen

Red Rocket

Amazing cayenne pepper.. We use for drying and great hot sauce

Biscayne

Cubanelle pepper. If you like peppers but don’t like the greeniness this is great

Bianca

A white addition to our sweet pepper collection

Flavorburst

New yellow sweet pepper that has gotten top reviews, early and nice resistance

Tiburon

The smell of these roasting Poblanos can send you to heaven

Jalafuego

NEW an improved variety of our Jalapeno, El Jefe

Parsnips

Harris

nice long sweet variety

Albion

trialed last year but poor performance with weather

Pumpkin

Jack B Little

We only grow small decorative pumpkins… these weigh 3 ozs

Baby Boo

White decorative pumpkin

Lil-Pump-Ke-Mon

yellow striped

Radish

Rover

New trialing some new hybrid radishes this year, these are the cool weather variety

Celesta

New this is the warm weather variety

French Breakfast

New we have not been impressed with the D'Avignon we grew and are trying these instead

Easter Egg

they don’t grow uniformly but we love the multi colors

Spinach

Bloomsdale

The best tasting hardiest spinach we've grown

Tyee

A hybrid spinach that does very well in greenhouse for extended  season

Bordeaux

New red veined spinach that looks incredible. Will use for mesclun mixes

Squash

Jackpot

Great zucchini, performs well all summer.

Midnight Lightning

Trial. Zucchini

Goldy

Beautiful golden zucchini.

Sunburst

Patty Pan squash. Lighter flavor than a zucchini

Multipik

Summer squash… some people say "poor mans corn"… just add butter

Buttercup

My favorite squash… tasty

Butternut

Smooth-textured and has a unique sweet flavor

Acorn

nutty, and moderately sweet

Delicata

Our number one selling squash

Swiss Chard

Fordhook

Slightly savoyed Green Chard

Bright Lights

The colors of this Chard never cease to impress us with great taste to match

Ruby Red

Beautiful red Chard, I think they taste a lot like beet greens

Turnips

Haukerei

This is one of those things I wonder why it took so long to discover. Nutty and Sweet

Purple Top

Your standard turnip

Scarlet Queen

New The red color of these is incredible.. Lets all see how they taste this year

Tomato

Yellow Mini

We tried these last year… we all now how that went

Arbason

New Buffalo was discontinued and this is our new Greenhouse replacement

Brandywine

I think this is truly one of the best when it comes to heirloom tomatoes

Yellow Brandywine

Slice of yellow, slice of red, fresh mozzarella, touch of basil, mmmmm…

Jet star

Our primary field tomato, incredible well balanced flavor

Sun Gold

This is our biggest selling Cherry Tomato, people rave about sweetness

Sweet 100

Need a sweet red Cherry to go with our red

San Marzano

I'm not a big tomato eater and yet I love these Plum tomatoes

Jubilee

New looking for a yellow greenhouse tomato that will do well

Tomatillo

Toma Verde

We got through over 24 Jars of green salsa each year.. Ask me for recipe

Scallion

Ishikura

These Japanese Scallions form the longest white stems I've ever seen

Evergreen

The standard is scallions, grow well from direct seed

Deep Purple

If only these scallions performed consistently, they are stunning