Growing your own vegetables can be not only a rewarding experience, but a very tasty one too! We carry a wide variety of vegetable plants and seeds to get your garden off on the right foot.
Broccoli
Nutritionists consider broccoli a superfood that helps you in so many ways. Go ahead and boil it and serve it with butter, but also try adding it to stir-fries and Italian pasta dishes. Broccoli grows best in the cooler climates. When planting broccoli, make sure the rows are three feet apart. Plant the plants one and a half to two feet apart.
Brussel Sprouts
Brussels sprouts are a nutritious, flavor packed crop that grow best in cool temperatures. Brussels sprout plants have thick, trunk-like stalks that grow 2-3' long, studded up and down with the edible sprouts, which look like baby cabbages. Each stalk may produce 50-100 sprouts. Plant the sprouts 2' apart in rows 3' apart. Provide at least an inch of water per week. Wait until after a few frosts to harvest. They'll be much milder-flavored and sweeter.
Jade Cross E
Jade Cross is a vigorous variety that has early maturing Brussels sprouts. Deep green, firm, medium-sized, oval sprouts grow closely on medium sizes plants. Holds will in adverse weather. Will tolerate heat stress well. Excellent flavour.
Size: 1" Days to Maturity: 90 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Cabbage
Grow cabbage in your garden, and you're sure to gain a new appreciation of this ethnic favorite. Try experimenting with the many interesting varieties available. There are early, mid-season, and late varieties; round, conical, or flat-head types; smooth leaves or savoyed (crinkled) foliage; and colors ranging from yellow green to blue green, deep green, or purplish red. Each has a distinct flavor, with the red types being among the most sweet. Plant cabbage plants 12-24" apart in rows, depending on size of head desired. The closer you plant, the smaller the heads. Although cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower are are closely related, and require similar nutrients, it’s best not to plant them together. They are all heavy feeders, depleting the soil faster of required nutrients; plus, they will attract the same pests and diseases; also best to avoid planting near strawberries and tomatoes. Cabbage can be grown near beans and cucumbers.
Early Varieties
Caraflex Pointed
Caraflex Pointed is one of the sweetest, most tender cabbages available and it's early maturing to boot! Caraflex Pointed is perfect for coleslaw and stir-fries as well as salads where you want some extra crunch. This hybrid produces compact plants.
Size: 1.5-2 lbs Days to Maturity: 50 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Golden Cross
Golden Cross is a great “mini-cabbage.” It matures extra early with tight, softball-sized, round heads. The small plants allow closer spacing in the garden or for growing in containers. The flavour of this cabbage is robust and sweet.
Size: 2 lbs Days to Maturity: 40 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Gregorian
Gregorian is a green, medium frame cabbage. It produces a uniform product that combines early maturity and tolerance to environmental stresses. Gregorian is a dependable producer that is quite suitable for home gardens.
Size: 3.5 lbs Days to Maturity: 59 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Late Varieties
Copenhagen Market
Copenhagen Market is a heavy producer of large, 6-7" round heads. Vigorous plants are easy-to-grow, but should be timed so heads mature in cool weather. The vitamin-rich heads are delicious cooked or raw in salads and coleslaw.
Size: 4.5 lbs Days to Maturity: 70 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade OS Cross
OS Cross cabbages have a unique flat or drum head-type without large central leaf veins. Large thin veined leaves are easily rolled for cabbage roll production. Plants are heat tolerant. Best to harvest this cabbage in late September.
Size: 5 lbs Days to Maturity: 80 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Danish Ballhead
Danish Ballhead heirloom cabbages produce cabbages that are mild and tender. This is a great, general-purpose cabbage that is good for sauerkraut, coleslaw, or general cooking. Big 7-10", light-green, well-protected heads stand happily in the garden well into the season.
Size: 5.5 lbs. Days to Maturity: 120 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade Ruby Ball
Ruby Ball is an early maturing red cabbage with a dark red exterior color and a good internal red color. The upright growing, compact plant allows for dense planting and produces heads of excellent quality. Stores well after harvest.
Size: 3-4 lbs Days to Maturity: 78 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Golden Acre
Golden Acre is an excellent early summer variety ball-head cabbage. With small to medium-sized green, round solid heads on compact plants with few outer leaves. Ideal for confined areas as it will give small heads of first rate quality and flavour.
Size: 3-4 lbs Days to Maturity: 64 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade Savoy Ace
Savoy Ace Improved is a popular and quick semi-savoy cabbage with looser crinkles and a more tender texture. This cabbage is versatile, dense and ready to harvest in a small size, with the ability to get much larger if desired.
Size: 3.5 lbs Days to Maturity: 75 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Cauliflower
Cauliflower is trickier to grow in some climates than its cousin, broccoli, but the effort is well worth it. And the reward of harvesting a large, attractive head from your garden will give a great sense of satisfaction. Plants grow best in cool, moist weather. When your planting in the garden, make sure the rows are at least 15" apart. Make sure you use fertilizer frequently as cauliflower likes a good magnesium level and will show symptoms of deficiency when the soil is allowed to become too acidic.
Amazing
Amazing is a classic variety of cauliflower, which produces self-wrapping 10" heads that are bright white with deep dome. Large, dense plants are uniform and vigorous. You can also harvest these at their "baby size" or wait until they are full grown.
Size: 1.5-2 lbs Days to Maturity: 75 Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Snow Crown
Snow Crown variety cauliflower has well-rounded, solid, white heads that measure up to 7.5" across with good depth. Plants are vigorous and extremely uniform. Snow Crown is great in both fresh and frozen uses. Excellent flavour.
Size: 2 lbs Days to Maturity: 50 Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Celeriac
Hardier and more disease resistant than its relative, celery, celeriac has a similar flavour and aroma. It is best to grow celeriac in fertile, organic rich, moisture retentive soil that gets plenty of full sun. Keep the soil constantly moist – it should never be allowed to dry out. As the plants mature, remove the outer leaves as they fall horizontal, to expose the crown and allow it to develop. Remove side shoots if they appear. Celeriac can be harvested and eaten before it attains its maximum size, but its flavour, like that of other root vegetables, is improved by a touch of frost, which converts some of its starch to sugar.
Giant Prague
For those that like a celery flavour in vegetable juices, stews, soups or salads Giant Prague celeriac is the plant for you. While this plant is not a beauty queen, the large white roots are almost fibreless and possess a lovely celery flavour.
Size: 2-4 in Days to Maturity: 110 Exposure: Full Sun |
Celery
Homegrown celery is delicious raw in salads and appetizers or cooked in sauces, soups, and stews. It requires a long growing season (at least four months) and grows best in moderate temperatures. Plant your celery where it will get 6 hours of sun, but preferably somewhere that the celery plant will be shaded for the hottest part of the day. Also, make sure that where you will be growing celery has rich soil.
Cucumber
Burpless Varieties
Whether eaten in salads or prepared for pickling, cucumbers are one of the most popular vegetables raised in home gardens. Burpless cucumbers are long and slender with thin skin, thus making them easier to chew than “standard” varieties. To grow burpless cucumbers (called that because they contain low or no cucurbitacin, the compound that causes bitterness and increases one's susceptibility to 'burping' after eating the fruits), you’ll need a garden with fertile soil, ample growing space and direct sunlight.
English Telegraph
English Telegraph cucumbers are longer and thinner than traditional cucumbers, with very small, soft seeds. A favorite of gardeners for the burpless fruits that add a cool, mild flavor and snappy crunch to salads and sandwiches.
Size: 12-18" Days to Maturity: 60 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade Summer Dance (Japanese)
Summer Dance is a Japanese burpless variety cucumber with high resistance to downy and powdery mildew. It will also delight you with its sweet, melodious flavor. Glossy, deep-green fruits are packed with sparkling refreshment.
Size: 10" Days to Maturity: 58 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Mercury
Choose Mercury cucumbers for exceptionally early slicing cucumbers. The fruits are 8" long with thin, shiny, dark skins, and crisp, sweet, flavourful flesh. The seeds are small in a tight seed cavity.
Size: 8" Days to Maturity: 55 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Perseus
Perseus cucumbers are crunchy and delightfully juicy, with a wonderful sweet flavor. The 6" dark green fruits have thin skin and no hint of bitterness. Perseus has incredibly high disease resistance and produces very heavy yields.
Size: 6-7" Days to Maturity: 50 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Pickling Varieties
Pickling cucumbers, also known as pickled gherkins, come from the cucumis sativus plant. Traditional cucumber plants take up a lot of space in a garden, but some dwarf varieties can be grown in a smaller space or even in a pot. Pickling cucumbers are typically ready to harvest at 3-5" Don't allow the fruits to become overripe on the vine as this signals to the plant that the seed-development process is nearly complete and it will shut down. Keep mature fruits picked to encourage further production. Harvest the fruits early in the morning before the sun hits the cucumbers for the best flavor and texture.
Bush Pickle
Bush Pickle cucumbers have a short growing season and the plants don’t grow large only (24-36"), making them ideal for small gardens. They are also excellent for container gardening. Fruits have a mild taste and are very crispy.
Size: 5" Days to Maturity: 48 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade Pick A Bushel F1
Pick a Bushel is an excellent heat tolerant pickling cucumber which can be picked at the gherkin or spear stage. The large yields of cucumbers can also be enjoyed fresh in salads and slaws. Plants can be planted in the garden or in patio containers.
Size: 3-6" Days to Maturity: 50 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Cool Breeze
Cool Breeze is an outstanding French cornichon pickling cucumber. The dark green cucumbers are smooth with fine white spines, at their best when harvested at 4-5" and will be seedless unless grown near other cucumbers.
Size: 4-6" Days to Maturity: 45 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade Regal
Regal is an early producing plant with high yields of long dark green cucumbers. It's slightly longer, slimmer shape makes it perfect for making chips, spears, and whole pickles. Good brining quality. Produces continuously all season.
Size: 2-4" Days to Maturity: 52 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Parisian Gherkin
Parisian Gherkins are an excellent mini-gherkin pickling cucumber which can be picked either at the midget size or small pickle stage and processed. The numerous black-spined cucumbers can also be enjoyed fresh in salads and slaws.
Size: 3-6" Days to Maturity: 50 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Slicing Varieties
Slicing cucumbers are grown for fresh eating, and typically grow around 8" long, with smooth skin. You'll want to harvest slicing cumbers when they are between 7-9" long, and have a bright dark green color. If they get much larger than this, they'll be bitter and won't have a pleasant texture at all. When you pick your cucumbers, you should leave a small, one inch, section of stem attached to the cucumber. This helps prevent the stem end from rotting in storage if you won't be using the cucumber right away.
Marketmore 76
Marketmore 76 are long, slender, good-tasting, crisp cucumbers. 8-9" long fruits stay uniformly non-fading and dark green even under weather stress. These cucumbers begin bearing late, but they will pick for a relatively long time.
Size: 8-9" Days to Maturity: 66 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Straight 8
A cucumber superstar, Straight Eight is a classic that has excellent flavor and is widely adapted. Smooth, straight, deep-green fruits with rounded blunt ends. Pick when 8" long for top flavor. Best grown on a fence or on a trellis.
Size: 7-8" Days to Maturity: 63 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Eggplant
Eggplant is not only a wonderfully international food, it's also versatile. Add it to soups and pasta dishes or use it as the basis for hearty meatless casseroles and other entrees. Vegetarians value its rich, deep flavor as an excellent substitute for meat. The elegantly shaped, often gorgeously colored, glossy fruits vary from large oval teardrop-shape to small round grape size. And the mature color can range from white to purple, pink, striped, green, or orange. The plant needs heat and humidity to grow well.
Millionaire
Millionaire’s extra-early maturity and high productivity will make you feel like you’ve hit the jackpot. The healthy, upright plants produce extraordinary harvests of deep purple, slender fruit, 8" long. This exquisite Japanese variety is tender and delicious with a minimal seed cavity.
Size: 7-8" Days to Maturity: 54 Exposure: Full Sun |
Nadia
Nadia eggplants produce high yields of tasty 7-8" long glossy dark purple eggplants. This outstanding classic Italian variety is firm and very flavourful. Perfect for grilling, frying, stuffing, and baking. Excellent choice for home gardens.
Size: 7-8" Days to Maturity: 67 Exposure: Full Sun |
Ground Cherry
Don’t let the name fool you, groundcherries have very little in common with those red treats whose blossoms inspire festivals. In fact they’re part of the nightshade family and are related to tomatillos and Chinese lanterns. These marble-sized, orangey fruits have a unique flavour, which is sometimes described as tasting similar to anything from pineapple or cherry to kiwi and tomato.
Kale
Kale is an excellent green vegetable for cold-weather cooking. It's best known as an attractive garnish, but the mild-flavor greens are also a highly nutritious addition to salads, stir-fries, steamed vegetable dishes, soups, and stews. Unlike so many other greens, they keep much of their shape even when cooked, adding texture to any dish. Leaves may be blue-green, green, or burgundy in color, and ruffled, curly, deeply cut, or flat in form. Kale grows best in full sun, but will tolerate partial shade as well. Plants that receive fewer than 6 hours of sun daily will not be as stocky or leafy as those that get ample sun, but they will still be plenty edible! Color and flavor improve with cool weather.
Winterbor
Winterbor kale is extremely frost hardy. Plants are very tall and extremely productive with thick, very curly, ruffled, blue-green leaves and are full of flavour. This variety makes an excellent salad when the leaves are chopped finely and used raw.
Size: 24-36" Days to Maturity: 60 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Kohlrabi
Resembling a spaceship or satellite, the swollen stem or "bulb" of kohlrabi develops just above the soil line. The crisp, sweet flesh resembles that of turnip and is used about the same way. Peel, slice, and eat the bulb fresh, or dice and cook it in soups and stews. Kohlrabi grows best in mild weather. Harvest the kohlrabi when the first stem is 1" in diameter. Kohlrabi can be continuously harvested, up until the stems are 2-3" in diameter.
Leek
Leeks are like delicate onions. They add their rich but subtle flavor to everything from creamy sauces to soups and stews. They're a must for any food enthusiast's garden. The best place for growing Leeks is in full sun in fertile, well-drained soil. When planting Leeks in the garden, make a shallow trench (about 4-5" deep) and place the plants inside, spacing about 6" apart and covering with only a light amount of soil. This frost-hardy plant can be harvested long after many other garden vegetables.
Lettuce
With very little space, growing lettuce gives you a steady supply of wonderful salads from earliest spring until past frost. You can grow in in your garden or in containers. You'll have only a short hiatus in the hottest parts of summer, when this cool-season vegetable stops producing. Lettuce comes in four basic types: crisphead, butterhead, loose-leaf, and romaine. Crisphead types are also called iceberg. Butterhead lettuces form smaller, looser heads. Loose-leaf lettuce has an open growth pattern and doesn't form a head. Romaine lettuce forms upright, cylindrical heads. Lettuce grows best at cool temperatures.
Buttercrunch
Buttercrunch is an extremely popular butterhead lettuce with a luscious, buttery texture. The soft heads are creamy-yellow inside and has some heat tolerance. Best used in cooler regions. Best used directly after picking.
Height: 9-15" Width: 6" Days to Maturity: 60 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Great Lakes 659
Great Lakes 659 produces high yields of large crisphead lettuce with crenated leaf edges and a heavy closed head. Very flavourful and never bitter. The crisp leaves are perfect for sandwiches, salads and garnishes. Very slow to bolt! Stores well if kept cool.
Height: 5-10" Width: 12" Days to Maturity: 83 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Paris Island Cos
Parris Island Cos is the classic romaine lettuce. Its compact, dark green rosette of tall, upright leaves is slightly curly with white hearts and has a crisp, sweet flavor. Slow to bolt. Grows best in full sun, but will tolerate partial shade.
Height: 12" Width: 12" Days to Maturity: 75 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Simply Salad - Pre-Mixed Lettuce
Simply Salad lets you grow a well-balanced salad mix with just one container! Each pot contains a tasty, good-looking mix of greens that can be enjoyed as a delicious, nutritious edible and a colourful, mixed-textured ornamental - functional and beautiful! You will have a prepped and ready salad mix every three weeks when you cut it back to 2" and let it regrow. These lettuce bowls perform best in full sun in cool weather or partial shade as temperatures warm up.
Alfresco Mix
Alfresco Mix is a tasty mix of red and green leaf lettuces, arugula, endive and radicchio that adds a flavorful Mediterranean flair to your menu. So easy to plant, they can be grown in either a pot or directly in the garden. Pre-mixed and ready to plant!
Height: 8-12" Width: 8-12" Days to Maturity: 35 Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Onion
Bunching Varieties
Commonly known as scallions or green onions, bunching onions are bulbless types with a milder flavour than many larger onions. They are highly versatile and can be eaten raw, or cooked in soups, salads, dips, stir-fries and more. Bunching onions are very hardy. When planting, space the bunches 2" apart; they tolerate close spacing because they don't need from for bulbs. Pull any weeds from the bed as soon as they appear, because onions compete poorly with weeds. Harvest the bunching onions once the bulbs are 1-2" in diameter. Loosen the soil around each bulb and lift if from the soil, taking care not to break the leaves.
Green Banner Bunching
Green Banner is a sturdy, uniform, vigorous onion variety. It is heat tolerant and holds well in the garden as it is slow to bolt or bulb. Green Banner's stems are glossy white and the leaves are full and dark green. This onion has low pungency.
Size: 18" Days to Maturity: 60 Exposure: Full Sun |
Red Varieties
Red onions feature red or purple skins surrounding red and white interior layers. Red onions require the same planting and harvesting care as other onions. Red onions are most often used in salads, salsas, and other raw preparations for their color and relatively mild flavor. The lovely red color becomes washed out during cooking. If you find their flavor to astringent for eating raw, try soaking them in water before serving.
Red Nugent
Red Nugent is an early maturing, long day onion with dark red skin that delivers excellent interior quality, good bolt tolerance, good uniformity and early yields. Red Nugent has a 5-6 month storage potential. Works great in salads and on burgers!
Size: 3 lbs Days to Maturity: 113 Exposure: Full Sun |
Spanish Varieties
A Spanish onion is a type of onion that is typically about the size of a softball, has a fine grain, and a yellow or white skin. It's known for its very mild flavor, with many people finding it sweet enough to eat raw. Though Spanish onions don't keep very well, they are versatile enough to work in many different types of dishes. They are also popular with home gardeners, since they produce a lot of fruit but are also pretty.
Ailsa Craig
Alisa Craig onions are huge, straw-yellow globes that grow up to 8" in diameter! Firm, with mild, sweet flesh, Ailsa is a fairly good storer. They are fine textured, excellent for salads and sandwiches. A definite favourite!
Size: 5 lbs Days to Maturity: 110 Exposure: Full Sun White Sweet Spanish
The White Sweet Spanish onions have large globes with single centers and firm, mild flesh. Great for your favourite onion ring recipe. It has a sweet flavour and very little of the sharpness that some onions have. Stores really well.
Size: 2 lbs Days to Maturity: 120 Exposure: Full Sun |
Candy
With Candy's strong root system and disease resistance, these are the perfect onions for anyone that has not had much success with this vegetable. Candy has an extra sweet and the perfect mild flavour and long-lasting storage quality.
Size: 2 lbs Days to Maturity: 90 Exposure: Full Sun |
Walla Walla
Walla Walla onions are famous for their size and sweetness. Harvest the golden-skinned bulbs early for mildest flavor. Walla Walla is best used for fresh eating, cooking or freezing. Performs exceptionally well in the North. Stores really well.
Size: 2 lbs Days to Maturity: 125 Exposure: Full Sun |
Pepper
Sweet Varieties
Bell pepper fruits are grown in a rainbow of fascinating colors: green, white, yellow, red, orange, and chocolate brown. Green fruits are actually immature peppers. If you leave them on the plant, they eventually will develop one of the other colors, most commonly red, and become sweeter. Bell peppers are being hailed as a superfood, low in calories, high in flavor, and vitamins A, C, and other nutrients. Bell peppers need temperatures above 16°C to grow well. It's best to protect plants from cold temperatures.
Baron
Baron peppers are giant bells that look even larger than ever on plants so compact they grow comfortably in containers! Pick them green or let them mature to rich red, when their vitamin content is at its peak.
Size: 4-5" Days to Maturity: 80 Exposure: Full Sun Golden California Wonder
Golden California Wonder are colourful golden bells that are very sweet and tasty. Gold peppers are superb for fresh eating as well a great for kitchen or market gardens. The productive plants produce early & are good for the North.
Size: 5" Days to Maturity: 78 Exposure: Full Sun Sweet Banana
Even after more than 70 years, Sweet Banana peppers are still an extremely popular chili pepper. Large, pointed fruits measure 7-8" long and 1.5" across. The yellow peppers ultimately turn brilliant red. A favorite for pickling.
Scoville Rating: 100-500 Size: 4-6" Days to Maturity: 72 Exposure: Full Sun |
Bright Star
Bright Star produces bright orange bell peppers with pleasant, sweet, crisp flavour. Produces blocky, 3-4”, mostly 4 lobed fruits. One of the best orange varieties for the home garden.
Size: 3-4" Days to Maturity: 75 Exposure: Full Sun King Of The North
The King of the North red bell pepper is the best variety for northern gardens where the seasons are cool and short. Full-figured, uniform fruits are excellent for stuffing or fresh eating and have a great, sweet flavor.
Size: 4" Days to Maturity: 70 Exposure: Full Sun |
California Wonder
California Wonder has been the standard bell pepper for many decades, this 1928 introduction is still the largest open-pollinated, heirloom bell you can grow. A perfect stuffing pepper: thick-walled, tender and flavorful.
Size: 4" Days to Maturity: 75 Exposure: Full Sun Purple Beauty
Purple peppers are always a favorite, as they are so colorful. Purple Beauty peppers produce loads of beautiful bells on compact, bushy plants. Crisp texture and mild, sweet flavor makes this one popular with everyone.
Size: 4" Days to Maturity: 75 Exposure: Full Sun |
Hot Varieties
Fiery hot peppers are easy plants to grow in great variety. There are many different types, each bearing fruits with varying degrees of heat. The plants take up little space, so plant several and decide which you like best. (They're excellent in containers - and attractive!) ancho or poblano peppers are mildly hot and often used for stuffing. Jalapenos are several times hotter. Tabasco peppers are up to 50 times hotter, and habaneros are 100 times hotter.
Carolina Reaper
Believed to be the hottest pepper in the world, the Carolina Reaper is a serious scorcher! A great conversation piece in the garden.
CAUTION: Use rubber gloves or clean hot peppers under running water to avoid skin burn from the pepper juice. Scoville Rating: 1,500,000-2,200,000 Size: 2" Days to Maturity: 120 Exposure: Full Sun Hungarian Yellow Wax Hot
The Hungarian Yellow Wax Hot is a bright yellow medium hot pepper averages 5.5" long and 1.5" wide. The fruit is smooth, waxy and tapers.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. Scoville Rating: 5,000-15,000 Size: 5.5" Days to Maturity: 67 Exposure: Full Sun Raam
Raam is an early jalapeno pepper, producing 5-7 days earlier than other varieties. 2.5” fruits on compact plants mature green to red.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. Scoville Rating: 1,000-5,000 Size: 3" Days to Maturity: 65 Exposure: Full Sun Trinidad Scorpion
Trinidad Scorpion peppers are one of the hottest in the world! Wrinkled, lantern-shaped fruit matures to deep red. Has a fruit-like flavour.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. Scoville Rating: 1,550,000-2,000,000 Size: 1.5-2" Days to Maturity: 90 Exposure: Full Sun |
Ghost Chili
Heat is nothing less than intense as Ghost Chili peppers are one of the worlds hottest peppers, if not the hottest.
CAUTION: Use rubber gloves or clean hot peppers under running water to avoid skin burn from the pepper juice. Scoville Rating: 1,000,000 Size: 2.5-3.25" Days to Maturity: 100 Exposure: Full Sun Jalapeno M
Jalapenos are dark green, medium-hot, thick-walled peppers 3" long and 1" wide, with rounded tips. Matures to dark red.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. Scoville Rating: 2,500-8,000 Size: 3" Days to Maturity: 75 Exposure: Full Sun Serrano
Serrano is a great hot pepper with punchy heat. A great pepper for use raw in fresh salads, salsas and sauces. They also make a great pickled pepper. Plants can get large and weighed down with fruit, stake to keep branches in place and fruits off the ground. Serranos are usually picked green, but are also good when allowed to ripen red.
Scoville Rating: 10,000-23,000 Size: 2-4" Days to Maturity: 70 Exposure: Full Sun |
Habanero Red
Habanero Red peppers have a delicious, pungent, smoky quality unlike any other pepper. Great in sauces and salsas.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. Scoville Rating: 150,000-325,000 Size: 1-2.5" Days to Maturity: 80 Exposure: Full Sun Long Red Cayenne
Long Red Cayenne peppers are very hot fruits that are 5" long and 0.5" thick. Use them fresh or they can easily be dried.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. Scoville Rating: 30,000-50,000 Size: 5" Days to Maturity: 72 Exposure: Full Sun Super Chilli
Super Chili peppers are very productive, semi-compact plants that produce upward-facing, cone-shaped chili peppers with a spicy flavor.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. Scoville Rating: 40,000-50,000 Size: 3" Days to Maturity: 75 Exposure: Full Sun |
Novelty Varieties
Anaheim
Anaheim peppers are green fruits that turn deep red when ripe. A mild medium-sized chili pepper. Use these pungent peppers fresh or dried.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. Scoville Rating: 2,500 Size: 4-6" Days to Maturity: 80 Exposure: Full Sun |
Trident (Pablano)
Trident poblano peppers are glossy, firm and straight. Good for fresh and dried use. Plants perform well in a wide range of soils.
CAUTION: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection. Scoville Rating: 250-1,500 Size: 1.5" Days to Maturity: 65 Exposure: Full Sun |
Pumpkin
Dill's Atlantic Giant
Dill's Atlantic Giant is the grand-daddy of all giant pumpkins. The present-day record, for this variety is an amazing 2009 lbs Used mainly for fairs and pumpkin competitions. Also perfect for huge jack o'lanterns and fall displays!
Size: 400-500 lbs Days to Maturity: 130 Exposure: Full Sun |
Small Sugar
Small Sugar pumpkins are one of the best for making the Thanksgiving favourite - pumpkin pie. It is a very prolific and handsome little pumpkin; usual size about 10" in diameter. It is very fine-grained, sweet and sugary, and keeps well.
Size: 5-8 lbs Days to Maturity: 100 Exposure: Full Sun |
Super Moon
Enjoy the ghostly white, smooth, clean skins of Super Moon pumpkins. Plant in full sun, in fertile soil with enough space to allow the indeterminate five foot long vines to take hold. Expect two to four fruits per plant. Great for carving as well as eating!
Size: 25-30 lbs Days to Maturity: 90 Exposure: Full Sun |
Squash - Winter
Colorful, curvaceous and a cinch to store, winter squash is one of the most nutritious crops you can grow, and these spectacular fruits hold their vitamins throughout their long storage life. Types of winter squash include: acorn, butternut, spaghetti and sweet dumpling. Fruits are ripe for harvesting if you cannot easily pierce the rind with your fingernail. Never rush to harvest winter squash, though, because immature fruits won’t store well. Unless freezing weather threatens them, allow fruits to ripen until the vines begin to die back.
Early Butternut
Early Butternut is earlier to mature than older butternut varieties, with a very sweet, nutty flavor. The fine-textured fruits arise on compact vines. This fruit stores superbly. Harvest it when the plants die back or just before frost.
Size: 10-12 in. Days to Maturity: 85 Exposure: Full Sun |
Royal Ace
Royal Ace produces big yields of high quality acorn squash. The fruit are uniform for size and shape and have an attractive dark green colour. The large semi-bush plants have thick foliage, but their resistance to powdery mildew are second to none.
Size: 4-7" Days to Maturity: 90 Exposure: Full Sun |
Vegetable Spaghetti
Grow your own spaghetti! Vegetable Spaghetti squash is delicious served with spaghetti sauce. When baked or boiled, flesh comes out in long strings that look just like spaghetti. Fruit weigh about 3-4 lbs. Rind is hard, medium yellow and smooth.
Size: 8-10" Days to Maturity: 70 Exposure: Full Sun |
Tomatoes
Beefsteak Varieties
Beefsteak tomatoes are aptly named as they are large, thickly fleshed fruits. Growing beefsteak tomatoes requires a heavy cage or stakes to support the often 1 lb fruit. Beefsteak tomato varieties are late maturing. The beefsteak tomato plant produces classic slicing tomatoes that your family will love.
Big Beef
Big Beef tomatoes are extra large, ruby red tomatoes that are firm, juicy and highly flavored. Big Beef offers a very heavy yield that will produce right up until frost. This tomato plant will need to be staked. Disease resistant.
Size: 10-12 oz Days to Maturity: 73 Exposure: Full Sun |
Bush Beefsteak
Bush Beefsteak is a wonderful, compact, prolific, short bushy plant (up to 3'). It yields huge amounts of very early producing globe-shaped beefsteak tomatoes in clusters. Bush Beefsteak is a very popular variety for shorter growing regions.
Size: 8 oz Days to Maturity: 62 Exposure: Full Sun |
Primo Red
Primo Red has large, firm, deep red fruit with smooth mild flavour. This determinate hybrid grows on a compact open plant and will supply you with numerous uniformly sized tomatoes that make for an easy harvest. Good eating quality.
Size: 8-12 oz Days to Maturity: 64 Exposure: Full Sun |
Slicer Varieties
What could taste better than a perfect red garden tomato still warm from the sun? Tomatoes are the most popular homegrown vegetable for good reason. Tomatoes need heat, water, and fertile soil to grow their best. Wait until after danger of frost has passed to set out transplants, provide regular water throughout the growing season, and fertilize monthly to ensure abundant harvests.
Bush Champion
Bush Champion is one of the best varieties for small space gardens and containers, bar none. Excellent for fresh eating. Compact plants grow to just 24" tall, producing extra-early yields of big fruits with excellent flavor. Good disease resistance.
Size: 9-12 oz Days to Maturity: 65 Exposure: Full Sun Lemon Boy
With a more intense, meaty, and slightly tangy taste distinguishing it from the red varieties, Lemon Boy tomatoes are addictive! The lemon-yellow fruits are both juicy and meaty and easy to slice for sandwiches or cut up small for salads.
Size: 7 oz Days to Maturity: 72 Exposure: Full Sun |
Bush Early Girl
Bush Early Girl tomatoes are an extra-large, extra-early tomato which grows on a true bush. The 18" tall plants are amazingly compact and self-supporting, yet productive. Outstanding juicy flavour! Multiple disease resistances.
Size: 6.5-7.5 oz Days to Maturity: 63 Exposure: Full Sun Patio
Enjoy fresh tomatoes on the patio or deck with this little charmer! A favorite for 50 years now, Patio sets masses of small, round, perfectly sweet tomatoes over a 2-month season. You'll love its ultra-compact habit and generous yields.
Size: 4 oz Days to Maturity: 70 Exposure: Full Sun |
Celebrity
Celebrity is a superior all-around tomato with fantastic disease resistance. These determinate plants are exceptionally strong, bearing masses of large, smooth, round, bright red tomatoes. They're very uniform and resistant to cracking.
Size: 8 oz Days to Maturity: 72 Exposure: Full Sun Super Fantastic
Super Fantastic tomato plants produce hardy vigorous vines that adapt well to a variety of climates. These large (3-4" diameter), rich and meaty tomatoes are very versatile – great for slicing, canning, drying and salsas. Very prolific yields.
Size: 10 oz Days to Maturity: 70 Exposure: Full Sun |
Plum Varieties
If you are a fan of fresh tomato sauce, you should be growing plum tomatoes in your garden. Plum tomatoes are a paste tomato. These tomatoes generally have a thicker fruit wall, fewer seeds and a denser but more grainy flesh. Plum tomatoes tend to be oblong in shape and heavy for their size. The also tend to be more firm than a non-plum or paste tomato.
Amish Paste
Amish Paste tomatoes produce large, heavy fruit that will reward your growing efforts with the richest sauces and thickest pastes. The deep red flesh is firm, not too juicy and the taste is a fine balance between sweet and rich. Makes a great salsa.
Size: 8 oz Days to Maturity: 75 Exposure: Full Sun Roma VF
Roma VF tomatoes are popular for canning or for making your own tomato sauce, juice, soups or for hydrating. Good for fresh eating as well. Plants bear dozens of plum shaped fruit which have meaty interiors and very few seeds. Does not require staking.
Size: 2 oz Days to Maturity: 75 Exposure: Full Sun |
Golden Rave
Golden Rave tomatoes are a baby golden roma with excellent flavour. One third the size of traditional roma types.
Size: 0.75 oz Days to Maturity: 74 Exposure: Full Sun |
Mamma Mia
Mamma Mia is a meatier, firmer fleshed fruit, just right for a thick and rich spaghetti sauce, or for salsa and any other recipes requiring a rich tomato taste. Large (5"), pear shaped fruit. These plants are high-yielding and will require staking.
Size: 4 oz Days to Maturity: 60 Exposure: Full Sun |
Cherry Varieties
Cherry tomatoes (sometimes called grape or saladette tomatoes) are small and great for making salsas or for using in salads. Although the fruit is small, cherry tomatoes are still full-sized tomato plants, so be prepared to grow them as such. Most of these tomatoes will require staking or caging to do well. Spacing should be 24-36" apart (in all directions) and stakes or cages should support the plant and individual stems as needed. Once tomatoes begin to appear, they begin to really crowd in there, so be ready for a large harvest.
Orange Zinger
Orange Zinger tomatoes are a perfect balance of sweet and tart, with added citrusy aromas, for delicious snacking and salads! Great-tasting, dark orange tomatoes are tasty in salads or eaten fresh by the handful!
Size: 1.5-2 oz Days to Maturity: 60 Exposure: Full Sun Sweet Million
Sweet Million cherry tomatoes are easy to grow, and hardy plants adapt well to many climates. Tall vigorous vines grow masses of gorgeous red cherry tomatoes on long trusses. Sweet Million matures early and delivers incredible yields.
Size: 0.5 oz Days to Maturity: 60 Exposure: Full Sun Tumbler
Tumbler is the best tomato for hanging baskets and containers, Tumbler has a graceful, cascading habit. The very productive, extra-early plants produce up to 6 lbs of sweet and tasty, cherry-type tomatoes, 1.25" in diameter.
Size: 1 oz Days to Maturity: 49 Exposure: Full Sun |
Sugary
Many cherry tomatoes look great but taste like nothing, while others are flavorful but don't have the big yields we all love. Well, Sugary has it all - super-sweet flavor, a fun new shape, and huge yields on plants that just keep growing!
Size: 0.5 oz Days to Maturity: 85 Exposure: Full Sun Rapunzel
Rapunzel tomatoes, just like its fairy tale namesake, puts out long, cascading trusses, each with up to 40 sweet, bright red cherry tomatoes that keep coming all summer long. Can be enjoyed individually as they ripen. Perfect for salads.
Size: 0.75-1 oz Days to Maturity: 70 Exposure: Full Sun |
Sweet Gold
Most yellow cherry tomatoes are grown mainly for their colour, not taste, but Sweet Gold has both! These glossy 1" tomatoes are delicious eaten right from the vine, enjoyed for snacks, or for adorning summer salads and stir fries.
Size: 0.3-0.6 oz Days to Maturity: 60 Exposure: Full Sun Tiny Tim
Tiny Tim dwarf plants (approx. 12" tall) are literally loaded with small, firm, red fruit about 1" in diameter. The fruit is juicy and has a very good sweet/tart tomato flavours. Tiny Tim is extremely early requires no staking.
Size: 0.5 oz Days to Maturity: 55 Exposure: Full Sun |