CCAC Garden Gate
Plant Sale Preview 2010

Now is the time for all good gardeners to purchase, plan and/or begin planting their seeds for the upcoming growing season. This process also gives us hope that in these long, cold days of late winter, spring is on its way bringing with it, warmth and renewed hope for the growing season.

I am in the process of doing just that and I thought that I would share with you the types of vegetables and plants that I will be offering (if all germinates and grows according to plan) for the 3rd Annual CCAC Garden Plant Sale benefiting the children’s garden. The approximate date for the sale will fall within the last week of May/first week of June.

Please take this time to make a request for a specific variety or just provide feedback on what will be available. This information is very helpful for me.

Vegetables

Whenever available, I like to grow heirloom seed varieties. Heirloom varieties are open-pollinated (non-hybrid) plants that were commonly grown throughout history, but which are not offered through large-scale agriculture. Through the growth and sharing of these seeds, varieties that have survived 50 – 100 years or, the case of grains, hundreds of years are able to persist today rather than going extinct.

Growing heirlooms also help to expand a child’s understanding of what a fruit or vegetable can be. Rather than thinking that the grocery store offering is the limit of what defines a tomato, for example, they learn that tomatoes can be all kinds of colors, shapes, sizes and flavors.

Tomatoes

To be offered are heirloom varieties beefsteak, cherry and mid size varieties in many colors. Among the varieties to be offered are:

Tomato – Southern Nights – a black/red beefsteak (Russian Heirloom)

Tomato – Crimson Cushion – a red HUGE beefsteak

Tomato – Watermelon Beefsteak – old variety dates back a century and produces lightly scalloped pink beefsteak tomatoes

Tomato – Peace Vine Red Cherry – 3/4″ delicious red tomatoes

Tomato – German Red Strawberry – red, oxheart-shaped tomatoes (German Heirloom)

Tomato – Yellow Pear – little yellow pear shaped tomatoes

Tomato – Tigerella – red/orange stripes

Tomato – Chocolate Stripe – mahogany colored with dark, olive green-striping

Peppers
A popular category – especially hot peppers – so I will offer mainly hot varieties for sale including:

Habanero Pepper

Cayenne Pepper

Cherry Pepper

Serrano Pepper

Pequin Pepper

Veggies
Additional vegetable offerings will include:

Cucumber

Bright Lights Chard – colorful, very healthy

Fringed Kale- colorful, decorative, very healthy

Tomatillo

I will also have plants that fall within the following categories:
Herbs

Many type of basils

Shallots

Garlic

Chives

Annuals
Perennials
Houseplants
Blooming vines

Please let me know what you think and let me know if you have questions by posting here, dropping me an email or catching me on a Wednesday afternoon when I am in Child Life.

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