TOMATOES
FOR 2010
So many tomatoes, so little
space! We suggest some early and some late, some small and
some large. These are the very best tomatoes for this
climate and they taste great, too. Click
here for a look at Susi’s article,
“How to Grow Tomatoes Even in
North Idaho”
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| RED SLICERS &
SALAD TOMATOES |
| 4th OF
JULY |
49 days |
Rich flavor,
medium plants |
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BEEFY BOY* |
70
days |
Amazing flavor, large size, big yields - NEW! |
| BIG BEEF |
73 days |
Earliest big red beefsteak |
| BURPEE BIG BOY |
78 days |
Very large red
slicers, rich flavor, meaty |
| BUSH CELEBRITY |
65 days |
Productive, small plants, lg. flavorful fruit |
| BUSH EARLY GIRL
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54 days |
Med.-sized fruit, smallish plants |
| CELEBRITY |
70 days |
Mid-season slicer, good flavor & disease resistant |
| CHAMPION
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62 days |
Meaty, flavorful lg. fruit |
| EARLY GIRL
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57 days |
Early, 4 oz. fruit |
| FIRST LIGHT |
76 days |
Exceptional
flavor, crisp texture, green shoulders |
| KOOTENAI
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65 days |
Small plants, reliable production, rich flavor |
| NEW GIRL |
62 days |
Earlier and better than Early Girl |
| NORTHERN EXPOSURE |
67 days |
Big tomatoes on short plants, reliable, good |
| PARK'S WHOPPER |
65 days |
Good sized fruit, very productive and reliable here |
| SILETZ |
60 days |
4-5” fruit on smaller plants. Productive & early |
| SUPER FANTASTIC
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70 days |
Large 10oz slicers, beefsteak flavor |
| VIVA ITALIA (ROMA) |
76 days |
Excellent roma with good flavor, high production |
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YELLOW & ORANGE TOMATOES |
| IDA GOLD |
59 days |
Sprawling small plant, oval, smallish sweet
fruit |
| LEMON BOY |
72 days |
Large plant with large, mild yellow fruit |
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CHERRY TOMATOES |
| CHOCOLATE CHERRY |
70 days |
Brown fruit with rich complex flavor; fun! |
| GOLD NUGGET |
55 days |
Smallish plants, loads of sweet yellow cherries |
| JULIET |
60 days |
Mini romas on large, sprawling plants |
| SUNSUGAR |
62 days |
Everyone’s favorite. Sweet, flavorful orange cherries |
| SUPERSWEET 100 |
65 days |
Extra sweet cherries, large vines |
| SWEET MILLION |
65 days |
Improved Supersweet 100, full sized, crack resistant |
| SWEET OLIVE |
57 days |
Earliest & best grape on medium plant, prolific |
| TAMI G |
62 days |
Sweet
grape-disease resistant indeterminate vines |
ODDBALLS
These don't fit in the other categories or we
have just a few to try this year. |
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BROWN BERRY |
72 days |
Just like Chocolate Cherry, non hybrid |
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BUSH BEEFSTEAK |
62 days |
Big beefsteaks on small plants |
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CUOR D’BUE |
85 days |
Late Italian Oxheart-good flavor |
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GOLDEN JUBILEE |
70 days |
Sweet, low acid, determinate heirloom |
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RED ALERT |
55 days |
Small sweet/tasty fruit on determinate bush |
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TOTEM |
70 days |
Like Patio, small for containers, more fruit than plant |
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WINDOW BOX ROMA |
70 days |
Compact Roma for containers or small spaces |
HEIRLOOMS
These did well last summer for us. Bloody Butcher is
very similar to 4th of July. Most of these are quite late so
we recommend that you don’t limit yourselves just to
heirlooms. Try some cherries and hybrids that bear earlier
to extend your production. |
| ANNA RUSSIAN |
65-70 days |
Luscious flavor,
pinkish red large fruit, indeterminate |
| BLOODY BUTCHER |
55 days |
Early, smallish plant, 2” fruit, good acidy
taste |
| BLACK KRIM |
80 days |
Rich, slightly salty black flavor, good producer |
| BRANDYWINE |
90 days |
Late, large beefsteaks. Best in greenhouses |
| COSMONAUT VOLKOV |
72 days |
1-2 lb. fruit with
excellent balanced flavor |
| GREEN ZEBRA |
78 days |
Unique smallish green fruit with yellow stripes, zingy |
| MANITOBA
|
58 days |
Determinate, small plant developed for
the north, good acid |
| PAUL ROBESON |
74 days |
Black 4” beefsteak; luscious, earthy exotic flavors |
| ROSE |
75-80days |
Like Brandywine,
maybe earlier-Amish heirloom |
| YELLOW PEAR |
70 days |
Pear shaped yellow cherry with very mild flavor |
* = new this year |
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PEPPERS FOR 2010
A word about peppers:
Green peppers are immature versions of red, yellow
or orange peppers. Colored peppers start out shades
of green then turn color when they are mature.
Maturity takes a few weeks longer so if you really
want to grow colored peppers, leave some plants
un-harvested. Purple peppers such as Islander and
Purple Beauty are purple when immature, turning
orange or red. Peppers and especially chilies love
heat so they are always slow here, and sometimes
don’t mature very well. If frost threatens you can
always harvest them green and freeze them for soups
later. Our selections are the best varieties we know
for this area. |
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BELL PEPPERS |
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CHOCOLATE |
Long, sweet flavored brown peppers |
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EARLY SUNSATION |
Yellow bells |
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FAT N SASSY |
Big blocky green/red bells |
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GOURMET |
Orange bells |
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ISLANDER |
Lavender bells |
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NEW ACE |
Earliest, smaller green/red bell |
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NORTH STAR |
Early green/red bell |
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PURPLE BEAUTY |
Purple bell |
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CHILES |
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ANCHO SAN MARTIN |
Poblanos for the north, mild |
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BIGGIE CHILE |
Anaheim, improved Big Chile (hopefully!)
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CARMEN |
Sweet Corno di Toro for frying or salads |
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CZECH BLACK HOT PEPPER |
Small black chilies turn beautiful red. Med hot |
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JALAPENO, MUCHO NACHO |
The best jalapeno |
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LIPSTICK (Pimento) |
Smallish, wedge shaped, very sweet red peppers |
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KRIMSON SPICE |
Hot paprika (very limited supply) |
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RING OF FIRE |
Red cayenne peppers, 3”, very hot |
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SERRANO DEL SOL |
Reliable serranos for the north |
EGGPLANTS
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DUSKY |
Early purple bell shaped fruit,
sturdy plants |
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ORIENT EXPRESS
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Long oriental type, very productive |
SEED POTATOES
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YUKON GOLD |
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RED NORLAND |
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| HERBS |
MISC. EDIBLES |
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Parsley-Flat and Curly |
Tribute Everbearing Strawberries |
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Rosemary-Arp |
Raspberry Plants (red and yellow) |
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Oregano |
Blackberry Plants |
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Sweet Marjoram
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Blueberry (special order) |
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Mints-spearmint, chocolate mint, orange mint |
Rhubarb |
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Chives |
OTHER VEGGIE STARTS
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Thyme |
Broccoli |
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Basil (late May-June) |
Cabbage |
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Lavender-Grosso |
Cauliflower |
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Onion Plants |
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Salad Mix (Mesclun) |
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Simple Pleasures in North Idaho
Comfort and Joy from Colorful Flowers
 Everyone is economizing
this year, and flowers are a great way to brighten your
space for little money. Patio containers and hanging
baskets can lift your mood, provide fragrance and
enhance your quality of life. What else costs so
little but provides so much, for so long a time?
Annuals are fun to mix and match or use in monochromatic
pots and baskets. Sometimes perennials can be used to
provide contrast or color, such as the bold leaves of Heucheras. Just pick a color you love and go from
there. You can also echo your colors in ground
plantings. Masses of one or two colors are very
effective. At our nursery, we have good signage and
people to help you choose from among our many varieties
of flowers. Our prices continue to be among the lowest
in town.
SPECIALTY ANNUALS
What are
specialty annuals?
Also known as premium annuals or basket
stuffers, they are vegetatively
propagated by companies such as Proven
Winners to be super performers. They
grow fast, have fewer problems, and need
less deadheading. They arrive as tiny
plugs in March and we grow them into 4"
pots and make up hanging baskets and
pots. It's very exciting to see each
new variety start to bloom. Susi
ordered them in the midst of the heavy
December snows and got carried away
dreaming of spring and colorful flowers,
so we have a fantastic selection this
year!
We make our pots and
baskets using extra goodies like alpaca
manure and worm castings so they get a
good start and last a long time.
Getting married and
love the country look? Having a
nice party? Consider us for garden
bouquets for your event. Depending
on the season, we offer mixed
bouquets and arrangements from our gardens at a much
lower price than a florist. We can
also order in whatever flowers you
desire and work closely with our
favorite designer, Julie Moore, who
is a professional floral designer.
Here’s a link to Julie’s site:
www.floralsbyjulie.com She is
very innovative in her use of
flowers and her big smile will make
you very comfortable. We know that
you will be thrilled with our
flowers and our prices.
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Trailing
Petunias-Waves are not the only trailers!
It’s true!
Petunias are so easy and wonderful in pots and
baskets, and besides waves there are Supertunias,
Surfinias, Whispers and more. Waves are grown
from seed and the others are grown from
cuttings. Cuttings grown petunias are very
weather resistant and branch with less pinching
than waves. They don’t get bald on top later in
the season. Choose from among these, and more.
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Jamboree Scarlet
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Supertunia Royal Velvet |
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Cascadias Sunray Yellow |
Jamboree Lavender |
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Surfinia Magenta |
Cascadias Soft Pink |
Supertunia Raspberry Blast |
Supertunia Double Dark Blue |
CALIBRACHOA :
Also referred to as Million Bells, Callies
resemble mini petunias and come in mounding or
trailing forms. Tough as nails and strong
growers, they will contrast and fill in pot
designs. Wonderful in monoculture pots, too,
just use several of the same plant. We ordered
in stars and pink veined ones, doubles, plums,
reds, blues and yellow.
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Million Bells Trailing Blue |
Callie Mango |
Deep Yellow |
Oriental Expressions Mix |
VERBENA :
Unlike old seed varieties,
the new vegetative propagated verbenas are dream
plants with strong mildew resistance and rapid,
hardy growth. Fantastic mixed with any of our
other plants, they have big rosettes of colorful
flowers and they bloom and bloom, even if you
neglect them. Try any of these beauties.
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Lanai Royal Purple |
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Lanai Peach |
Superbena Large Lilac Blue |
Red ‘07 |
Lanai Cherry Red |
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OSTEOSPERMUM
- Mounding plants with big daisies.
Soprano Lilac Spoon is new and unique. |
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DIASCIA:
Use for filler in containers. Compact
and mounding, lots of small flowers. |
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NEMESIA
Mounding fragrant
flowers for fillers
(Angelart Raspberry and Bluebird) |
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NEMESIA ANGELART FRUIT PUNCH |
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GOLDAHLIA ROSE |
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GOLDAHLIA ORANGE |
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ANAGALLIS ANGIE BLUE |
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BIDENS PETER’S GOLD CARPET-
great trailing filler, small yellow
flowers |
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BRACHTEANTHA OUTBACK YELLOW
- golden strawflowers for baskets |
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THUNBERGIA CHARLES STAR
- vining plant for trellises or baskets,
yellow flowers |
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PHLOX INTENSIA CABERNET
- floriferous, mounding/trailing plant
with hot pink flowers-a knockout! |
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BACOPA GREAT REGAL
BLUE |
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BACOPA GREAT PINK RING
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BACOPA GULLIVER WHITE |
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HELIOTROPE
– fragrant blue flowers on mounding
plants. Loved by butterflies |
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SALVIA BLACK AND BLUE
– tall with fabulous blue flowers |
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DRACENA SPIKES
- great for height in pots |
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GLECHOMA VARIEGATA
- variegated creeping Charlie-long
trailer |
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GOLDEN CREEPING JENNY
- nice yellow trailer for pots or hardy
perennial groundcover for light sun,
shade |
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SWEET POTATO VINE MARGARITA
– chartreuse heat lover, trailer |
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ESPECIALLY FOR SHADE: |
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TRAILING IMPATIENS BUTTERFLY SALMON WITH
EYE – Dainty flowers look
like butterflies on delicate but
surprisingly tough plant. Makes a
beautiful basket combined with lobelia |
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BEGONIA DOUBLET RED
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Can we
make up a special basket for you? Just email us and we can send a
flyer or come see the whole selection at the farm nursery and pick out
plants for your own pots and containers. There’s signs and big
color tags to help you choose!
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