Our website redesign is finally complete, along with our new catalog for 2009!

Every year we spend the fall months getting ready for next spring and choosing our varieties, planning and working on the web site to make it easier to use and hopefully to be less confusing. We feel that this year we have made some nice cosmetic changes and navigational rearranging to help you find what you need, right away. With a new logo redesign that shows our actual garden and added access to our blog entries incorporated into the home page. We hope you like what you see. There are also more helpful videos being added every day, look for them on our Tasteful Kitchen page and coming soon to our Growing Tips pages.

We have some really nice new selections of tomatoes such as Paul Robeson which are a dark reddish purple color and so full of flavor, many say it rivals Cherokee purple for taste. Another new one is our Kosovo Oxheart tomato which we have gotten several requests for and hope you will try. Oxhearts are some of the oldest tomato varieties and with good reason, they are so spectacularly sweet and meaty! You will absolutely love them. New peppers have been added, and a few new varieties of vegetables such as Little Fingers cucumbers and Zephyr summer squash are fun to grow and easy too!

Our new tomato, pepper and vegetable varieties are now online and available to preorder. Our prices remain the same as last year and our shipping has stayed the same price as well. This year, for the first time, we are also offering a quantity discount on our tomato plants. Order 10 plants for a 5% discount, order 20 and get a 7.5% discount, and 40 or more will get a 10% discount. Keep in mind that when you place an order for 1 to 6 plants shipping costs stay about the same because of carrier minimum prices. For additional plants, the shipping goes up only slightly based upon weight. If you want to see your estimated shipping charges, just click on the link in the shopping cart view.

Check out our category Garden Supplies & Tools for lots of exciting new items for Spring. We are offering Earth Boxes and Hanging Brackets for baskets and great garden hats too. Our large container planter combo comes with everything you need for a nice big pot full of tomatoes!

New to our catalog! A new association with Mother Earth News! We have worked with this wonderful magazine to develop several combinations of plant selections that are all about flavor and ease of growing. Since our philosophy on growing is based upon natural growing techniques of heirloom and unusual varieties, we welcome the new connection. Visit their site to find out more about the magazine. These combos are now available to preorder in our catalog. Look for this logo under Easy Order Combos.

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Our Kitchen herb planter kits, Windowsill herb gardens and Hanging Baskets are just beautiful indoors, in your kitchen where you use them the most. Available for shipping through the Holiday season, you just can't beat our beautiful fragrant live herb plants for gifts or just grow one for yourself! The following herb plants are available and can be chosen for any of our garden baskets and kits: English Thyme, Curly Parsley, French Tarragon, Greek Oregano, Sweet Marjoram, Rosemary, Prostrate Rosemary, Sage, Spearmint, Chives and Lavender. Order Holiday and Christmas gifts now to be sent just at the right time.

California White Garlic & Shallots are still available and should be planted in early November in most areas. These fantastic bulbs are going fast so order now.

Since this is now the time for shopping we will just suggest a few items that hopefully will fit the bill for that special gift for the loved ones in your life. You don't have to stand in line, fight the crowds, or walk through a mall, it is easy to shop with us and we guarantee quality and on time delivery. Gift certificates can also be ordered online for those that want to postpone the thrill of the gift until their garden is ready to plant.

Some gift items available in our catalog:

Gadgets for your kitchen! From our beautiful Stainless steel bowls to a set of olive oil and vinegar bottles, silicone mats, the best quality salt and pepper mills, and a porcelain mortar and pestle. Check out our kitchen gadgets for the most unique and useful gifts for those who love to cook!

Perfect for a trip to the market these huge baskets are strong enough to carry a weeks worth of groceries, yet they are fashionable too! Add one to your wish list for the holidays!

Our best Garden hat makes a terrific gift for your favorite gardener.

The Cobra Head weeder tool is new to our catalog and very helpful with those nasty weeds in the garden and our handy garden seat is sturdy and holds all your tools! This potting tray is perfect for planting seeds in your kitchen this winter, no mess to clean up! Order a basket filled with our garden gadgets for that special gardener in your life.

View these items and more in our catalog

Plan for Artichokes and Asparagus now! Strawberries and Onions too! Get ready to grow something new this year with these early season crops.

Artichokes are perfect for warm, long season areas, or grow them with a bit of shelter. If you have at least 100 frost-free days in your area which most of the country does, you can grow them! Keep in mind that Artichokes will freeze so if you don't have a greenhouse to keep them in, you will have to bring the young plants indoors until after all danger of frost has passed. They will produce best in coastal areas and zones 6-10. Note! These plants are only available for shipping in March!

The classic Jersey Giant Asparagus is the best flavored asparagus for backyards growing large stalks with sweet flavor. These asparagus plants are perennial and can continue to produce for up to 20 years! Best planted in early spring. These are shipped bare root crowns in bundles of 25. Ready to ship anytime after February 9th but keep in mind that these sell out early so preordering is the best way to guarantee you will get them.

Strawberry plants need early planting! Our variety, "Sparkle", has great flavor and nice dark red flesh. Strawberries will ship bare root in bundles of 25. Keep in mind that Strawberries are frost tolerant and should be planted in early spring. Ours will ship anytime after February 16th. Strawberry plants can keep producing fruits for five or six years!

Onions also need to plant early and you should choose the correct variety for your part of the country so select "Short Day" or "Long Day" bulbs so you get the onions which will develop its bulb during that time of the year. Here in the south, we plant in February, up north generally you will plant as late as April. Our onions are sold as plants bundled into bunches of about 40-60 plants. We also have Leeks & Cippolini onions!

Please take time off this month to really enjoy the season. Drive around to see the lights, play in the snow, do some caroling, or just star gaze on a cold night around a fire. Savor the season and have a truly happy holiday!