Our First Time at Market!

What are you doing on Saturday, May 19^th?  Visiting our booth at the Spenard Farmers’ Market, that’s what! 

This is our first time at a farmers’ market, but we'll be there with bells on.  Here’s what we’ll have available:

• Tomatoes (see below)
• Grapes (see below)
• Field mint – mint juleps anyone?
• Squash – Caserta
• Zucchini – round & Cocozelle
• Cucumbers – Telegraph improved greenhouse & little leaf, both are self fruiting, no pollination required

 

• Prickly pear pads – VERY limited number available.
• Potatoes – these are TRUE potatoes from seed, not seed potatoes (Juanita del Montana, early & late blight resistant).  VERY limited number available

 

• Peppers – we have cuttings from our awesome plant & some ghost pepper (bhut) starts.  VERY limited number available.

 

bhut baby

 
 

• Herbs – French sorrel, lime basil, Greek oregano, and more!

lime basil

 

Come on down & check out some beautiful plants!  Just look for the table with the grapes :)

The market is open from 9am – 2pm.  For more info, go to http://www.spenardfarmersmarket.org/.

Let me know if you have any questions & please let anyone who might be interested!

'Maters 

• Honeydrop Cherry Tomato ECO   (62 days)  Open-pollinated.  Ind.  Its sweet juicy fruity honey-colored treats taste almost like light grapes.  Try one Honeydrop, bet you won’t be able to stop!  Still retains a noticeable percentage of recessive pink-fruit off-types in the selection. New in 2011.
• Indigo Rose   (80 days)  Open-pollinated.  Darkest tomato bred so far, exceptionally high in anthocyanins.  Anthocyanins are powerful anti-oxidants and are what give blueberries their lovely color.  In the early stages of fruit development, Indigo Rose develops a dark purple pigment in its skin when exposed to direct sunlight.  Green when unripe, purple-red when ripe, the 1-2 oz., cocktail-sized tomatoes have good flavor with 'plummy' overtones.  Developed by Jim Myers at Oregon State University using traditional plant breeding techniques.  Some late blight and TMV resistance.  Compact indeterminate.  New in 2011.
• Glacier   (55 days)  Open-pollinated.  Det.  Glacier ripens around the same time as the sub-arctics with about the same size (1–2"), and almost no cosmetic defects except yellow shoulders, but there the comparisons end.  Glacier’s rich tomato flavor relegates the insipid sub-arctics to the  compost pile.  It is also superior to the highly touted Siberia tomato, to Stupice, to Early Temptation to Bloody Butcher and, in fact, to every other tomato in the same class that we’ve tried.  Originally from Sweden, 1985.  Potato-leaf foliage.
• Cosmonaut Volkov   (65 days)  Open-pollinated.  Ind.  A superb home garden variety with good commercial possibilities.  Early, usually ripening quantities of deep red slightly flattened 8–12 oz. globes at the beginning of August when tomato craving is at its peak.  Even in cold summers, it will produce dependably by mid-August.  What makes Cosmonaut so special is its juice: sweet, rich, and full-bodied.  Volkov was the Russian explorer who fell through space.  From Dnepropetrovsk in the Ukraine. 
• Perfect Storm   (80 days)  Open-pollinated.  Salad-size globe-shaped yellow skin, yellow flesh fruit, fair amount of horizontal early and late blight resistance as well as resistance to nematodes, TMV, CMV, etc.  Some resistance to cold nights, will set fruit at 45f.
• Tiny Tom   (45 days)  Open-pollinated.  Dominant gene dwarf type plant produces excellent yields of ¾" bright red cherry tomatoes. This is a perfect patio variety for pots, containers, and window sill gardens. Also suitable for small gardens. Developed 1943 USDA, succession # NSL 20527.  Compact indeterminate that may set fruit heavily enough to act like a determinant temporarily (tries to bloom itself to death).  Extremely low light tolerance, will produce all winter long in a south facing window.

Da Vines

• Kay Gray - American hybrid grape.  Needs full sun and pruning to reveal fruit or it will not ripen properly.  Low vigor, needs a good nutrition program and no competition at feeder root level (no grass, etc).  Ripens last week of September.  Prune to spurs on 2 trunks.  Canes can be too thin to survive winter properly here if not fed heavily.  This is the variety that fruited for us last year :) 
• AlpenGlow - American hybrid grape.  Needs full sun and pruning to reveal fruit or it will not ripen properly.  High vigor, can compete with grass, etc.  Ripens 1st week of October, can be picked much earlier for wine.  Very vigorous, prune to canes.  1st year for us.
• Riverbank - Species grape - N. Minnesota seedstock.  Extreme vigor.  Tolerant of very wet soils, drought, cold and resistant to mildew and many insects.  Does well in part shade.  Good for display or as a rootstock for other grapes in difficult areas.  Has yet to fruit for us.

bebe grape vines