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This is a list of plants we will have throughout the season, but what is available varies week by week and sometimes something is not ready yet or sold out. Please hold this list lightly.  Thank you!!

Seedlings may be coming straight from the greenhouses and haven't spent much time outside in the sunny, windy, wide world and need to get used to it.  They need to ease into the real world: this process is called "hardening off."  Keep them in a protected but outdoor space for a few days before planting, increasing exposure gradually.

If you have a burning question, email (urbanfarm@eastcentralministries.org) is the best way to reach me, and I'll do my best to respond within a day or two.  Thanks for your support and patience!  

Tomatoes

  • Alto San Marzano

    Heirloom, Indeterminate

    Season: Late, Fruit Size: 4 oz., Fruit Shape: Oblong/Plum Skin Color: Red, Comments: Great paste/cooking tomato

  • Beefsteak

    Heirloom, Indeterminate

    Season: Late, Fruit Size: 12 oz., Fruit: Beefsteak, Skin Color: Red, Comments: Extra large slicer, meaty

  • Black Krim

    Heirloom, Open Pollinated, Indeterminate

    Origin: Russia, Season: Late, Plant Height: 6 ft., Fruit Size: 8 oz., Fruit Shape: Flattened Globe, Skin Color: Black

  • Celebrity

    Hybrid, Semi-Determinate

    Season: Mid, Plant Height: 5 ft., Fruit Size: 10 oz., Fruit Shape: Flattened Globe, Skin Color: Red, Disease Resistance: Verticillium Wilt, Fusarium Wilt Race 1, Fusarium Wilt Race 2, Nematodes, Alternaria Stem Canker, Tobbacco Mosaic Virus

  • Chef’s Choice Orange

    Hybrid, Indeterminate

    Season: Mid, Fruit Size: 8-11 oz., Fruit Shape: Round, Skin Color: Orange, Taste: Mild, non-acidic, Disease Resistance: TMV

  • Cherokee Purple

    Heirloom, Open Pollinated, Indeterminate

    Season: Late, Plant Height: 5 ft., Fruit Size: 10 oz., Fruit Shape: Flattened Globe, Skin Color: Deep Pink

  • Chocolate Cherry

    Open Pollinated, Indeterminate

    Season: Late, Plant Height: 7 ft., Fruit Size: 0.5 oz., Fruit Shape: Cherry, Skin Color: Purple/black

  • Flamenco

    Open Pollinated, Semi-determinate

    Season: Mid, Fruit Size: 2-5 oz., Fruit: round, Skin Color: Red, Leaf: carrot like foliage, Comments: Growing Awareness Exclusive! Can withstand partial shade better than other tomatoes.

  • Green Zebra

    DescriptionHeirloom, Open Pollinated, Indeterminate

    Season: Late, Plant Height: 5 ft. Fruit Size: 2-4 oz., Fruit Shape: Round, Skin Color: Green goes here

  • Indigo Cherry Drop

    Open Pollinated, Indeterminate

    Season: Late, Fruit Size: 1-2 oz., Fruit Shape: Large Cherry, Skin Color: Black/Purple/Red, Comments: High in antioxidants

  • Pink Berkley Tie Dye

    Description gHeirloom, Open Pollinated, Indeterminate

    Season: Late, Plant Height: 5 ft., Fruit Size: 8-12 oz., Fruit Shape: Beefsteak, Skin Color: Dark pink with green stripesoes here

  • Red Zebra

    Open Pollinated, Indeterminate

    Season: Early, Plant Height: 6 ft., Fruit Size: 4 oz., Fruit Shape: Round, Skin Color: Bi-colored

  • Sun Gold

    Hybrid, Indeterminate

    Season: Early, Plant Height: 6 ft., Fruit Size: 0.35 oz., Fruit Shape: Cherry, Skin Color: Orange, Taste: Sweet

  • Super Sweet 100

    Hybrid, Indeterminate

    Season: mid, Plant Height: 6 ft., Fruit Size: 1 oz., Fruit Shape: Cherry, Skin Color: red

  • Tiny Tim

    Heirloom, Determinate, Dwarf/Container variety

    Season: Early, Plant Height: 18 inches Fruit Size: 1oz., Fruit Shape: round cherry Skin Color: red

  • Yellow Pear

    Heirloom, Open Pollinated, Indeterminate

    Season: Late, Plant Height: 8 ft., Fruit Size: 2oz., Fruit Shape: Small Pear Skin Color: Yellow

Peppers

  • NM Heritage Big Jim

    This New Mexico green chile boasts long, smooth, fleshy fruits. Perfect for chile rellenos and roasting. Also suitable for drying.

    Medium

  • NM Heritage Chile (6-4)

    Thick, fleshy chiles with a rounded shoulder and medium-green color.

    Mild

  • NM Heritage Red Chile (Guajillo)

    Heirloom NM Red Chile, 130 days. The best authentic New Mexican red chile flavor!

    Medium to Hot

  • NM Ms. Junie

    Very prolific producer. Hot, large green chile with fairly thick flesh. 6 to 10” fruit. Hatch, New Mexico.

    Hot

  • NM Sandia Chile

    This New Mexico green chile has 8” long dark green pods, thick walls are perfect for chopped green chile.

    Hot

  • Poblano Chile

    Mild green chile has 8” long dark green pods, perfect for chile rellenos. Fresh they are called Poblano, dried they are referred to as Ancho Chile.

    Medium/Mild

  • NM Rattlesnake

    Prolific producer. Large green chiles (4-8” pods) with thick flesh. 18,000 SHU. Hatch, New Mexico.

    Very Hot

  • Jalapeño

    The classic Mexican hot pepper. Great for adding spice to salsas and Mexican dishes. Green peppers 2”-3” long.

    Medium-Hot

  • Yellow Hot

    Medium-sized, spicy hot peppers. Specially bred for salsas, frying, and pickling.

    Hot

  • California Wonder Bell Pepper

    A sweet, crisp bell pepper that can be harvested green or red. A favorite for salads, or stuff it for a tasty meal!

    Sweet

  • Orange King Bell Pepper

    A sweet, crisp bell pepper that turns from green to orange. Harvest early fruit to encourage additional fruit set.

    Sweet

  • Mini Red Bell Pepper

    A mini bell heirloom pepper. Plants are loaded with 2” fruit. Ripens from green to red. Great for snacking!

    Sweet

Culinary Herbs & Pollinators

  • Italian Basil

    Plant Size: 24-30 inches tall

    Type: Warm season annual

    Comments: Plant after last spring frost, great companion plant, good in containers, best to eat fresh on everything!

  • Tulsi — Holy Basil

    Plant Size: 1-2 feet tall

    Type: Annual

    Comments: Great pollinator, blooms all summer. Commonly used as tea to reduce stress and restore balance.

  • Greek Oregano

    Plant Size: 1-2 feet tall

    Type: Perennial

    Comments: Strong aroma and flavor. Many culinary and medicinal uses, prefer full sun and will spread.

  • Lavender Blue Spear

    Plant Size: 12”

    Type: Perennial

    Comments: Showy, upright fragrant flower spikes, deep blue

  • Lemon Balm

    Plant Size: 1-2 feet tall

    Type: Perennial

    Comments: Drought tolerant, hardy. Strong Lemon flavor, used in aromatherapy. Can be used in fresh or dried. Good pollinator.

  • Sage

    Plant Size: 4-6 feet tall

    Type: Perennial

    Comments:

  • English Thyme

    Plant Size: 18-20 inches tall

    Type: Perennial

    Comments:

  • Bee Balm — Wild Bergamot

    Monarda Panorama Mix

    Plant Size: 2-3 feet tall

    Type: Perennial

    Comments: Great Pollinator, showy flowers, can be used as tea and has medicinal uses.

  • Blanket Flower

    Arizona Apricot Gaillardia

    Apricot & yellow bi-colored flower drought tolerant, perennial, full sun

  • Echinacea Purpurea

    Plant Size: 1-2 feet tall

    Type: Perennial

    Comments: Purple Coneflower. Like full sun, is drought and heat tolerant. Great pollinator. Many herbal uses.

  • Yarrow Summer Pastels

    Plant Size: 28–30"

    Type: Long-lasting perennial

    Comments: Low maintenance. Tolerates drought once established. Long vase life. Attracts and supports beneficial insects such as damsel bugs, lacewings, lady beetles, and parasitic wasps.

  • Russian Sage

    Perovskia Blue Steel

    Type: Perennial

    Comments: Drought tolerant, full sun, lavender flowers, blooms all summer

Strawberries, Raspberries, & other Veggies

  • Seascape Strawberries

    Day Neutral Everbearer

    Fruit: Firm, Berry Size: Large, Flavor: Sweet, Disease Resistance: Red Stele, Verticillium, Leaf Spot, Leaf Scorch

  • Jewel Strawberries

    June-bearing

    Fruit: Firm, Berry Size: Large, Disease Resistance: Red Stele, Verticillium, Leaf Spot, Leaf Scorch. Great all around berry!

  • Caroline Red Raspberry

    Plant Size: 4-6 feet tall, Type: Perennial, Self-pollinating

    Outstanding flavor, large juicy fruit. Highly adaptive, ripens June/July and produces until frost.

  • Patio Baby Eggplant

    Hybrid. Plant Height: 18”-24” Fruit Size: 2”-3” Fruit Shape: Mini, Skin Color: Deep Purple, Comments: Spineless, true miniature plant, great for containers!

  • Black Beauty Eggplant

    Heirloom. Plant Height: 3-4 ft., Fruit Size: 1-3 lbs., Fruit Shape: Plump/oblong, Skin Color: Deep Purple, Comments: Good for grilling, roasting, or eggplant parmesan!

  • Long Purple Eggplant (Japanese)

    Heirloom. Plant Height: 3-4 ft., Fruit Size: 10” long, Fruit Shape: Long, slender, Skin Color: Deep Purple, Comments: Mild flavored, few seeds, thick skin.

  • Beit Alpha Cucumber

    Hybrid. 52 days. and high yields. Sweet, small cucumber. Seedless. Self-pollinating, and easy to grow. Can be grown in a container.

  • Zucchini Black Beauty

    Open Pollinated. Bush plant. Dark green cylindrical fruit. Prolific.

What is the difference between the strawberry varieties!?

Planted early spring, produce fruits during the second year of planting. June-bearing strawberries produce a large crop lasting 2-4 weeks, in late spring early summer. Depending upon your location strawberry plants usually begin flowering in Zone 5 areas in early May. Cultivars are rated as early, mid-season, or late according to when they bear. Early varieties may be more subject to frost injury because of their bloom time, and the opened blossom is at the stage of fruit development most susceptible for frost injury. Strawberry varieties all ripen about 30 days after bloom. June-bearing strawberries normally produce the largest yield per season, in a short period of time. If you want enough berries for freezing and processing choose June Bearers. 

Day-Neutral strawberry varieties bear throughout the growing season. Day-neutral cultivars can potentially produce flower buds regardless of day-length, and fruit can be harvested in the summer and fall. However, these cultivars do not initiate floral buds when the temperature exceeds 85 degrees. They can be highly productive and have very flavorful berries when growing conditions are ideal. Day-neutral plants may have three peaks of production each year: late spring/early summer (like June bearers), midsummer, and from late August through frost. However, the summer crop can often be affected by high temperatures, If you want a smaller quantity of fresh fruit throughout the season choose Day Neutral.  story online can make all the difference.