We’re always growing new experimental plants to add to our offerings.
American Beautyberry $7
- American Beautyberry
- zones: 6 – 10
- sunlight: full sun to partial shade
- height: 3-5 feet
- spacing: 3-5 feet
- use: attracts pollinators. berries are said to be edible
- availability: April-October
Artichoke $7
- zones: 7-9
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 3 feet
- spacing: 3 feet
- availability: April-October
Arugula – Wild $7
- the extra spicy, wild ancestor of arugula
- zones: 7-10
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 1 foot
- spacing: 6 inches
- how to eat: Eat like any arugula.
- availability: April-October
Aster – New England Aster $7
- zones: 3 – 8
- sunlight: full sun to partial shade
- height: 4 feet
- spacing: 2 feet
- use: attracts pollinators
- availability: April-October
Bee Balm – Panoramic $7
- zones: 3 – 9
- sunlight: full sun to partial shade
- height: 2-3 feet
- spacing: 2 feet
- use: attracts pollinators
- availability: April-October
Bee Balm – Spotted $7
- zones: 3 -9
- sunlight: full sun to partial shade
- height: 2-3 feet
- spacing: 2 feet
- use: attracts pollinators
- availability: April-October
Bee Balm – Wild Bergamot $7
- zones: 3-8
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 2-4 feet
- spacing: 2-3 feet
- how to use: medicinal herb
- availability: April-October
Bloody Dock $7
- A perennial salad plant with striking red veins in the leaves
- zones: 6-8
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: up to 1 foot
- spacing: 8 inches
- how to eat: High in oxalic acid – eat in moderation. Eat very young leaves in salad
- availability: April-October
Broccoli – 9 star broccoli $7
- A perennial relative of broccoli and cauliflower which produces cauliflower like heads.
- zones: 7-10
- sunlight: partial shade
- height: 2 feet
- spacing: 3 feet
- how to eat: Eat like any cauliflower.
- availability: April-October
Butterfly Weed $7
- zones: 4 – 9
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 2 feet
- spacing: 2 feet
- use: attracts pollinators
- availability: April-October
Cardoon $7
- A relative of artichokes which are grown for their artichoke flavored stalks.
- zones: 7-10
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 3 feet
- spacing: 3-4 feet
- how to eat: Eat in stews/meat pies or deep fried in batter.
- availability: April-October
Caucasian Mountain Spinach $7
- Not a true spinach.
- zones: 3-10
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 9 feet
- how to eat: Eat like spinach
- availability: April-October
Chard $7
- A perennial salad plant with striking red veins in the leaves
- zones: 4-8
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 1 foot
- spacing: 1 foot
- availability: April-October
Chicory – Red $7
- zones: 4-8
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 1 foot
- spacing: 1 foot
- how to eat: Eat the new leaves in salads
- availability: April-October
Chives $7
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 1 foot
- spacing: 4-8 inches
- availability: April-October
Chives – Garlic Chives $7
- zones: 3-9
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 1 foot
- spacing: 4-8 inches
- availability: April-October
Collard $7
- Perennial collard which grows up to 6 feet tall and is bred to survive cold winters.
- zones: 1-6
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 6 feet
- spacing: 2 feet
- how to eat: Eat like any collard.
- availability: April-October
Cucumber – Creeping Cucumber $7
- A small relative of Mexican sour gherkins. Creeping Cucumbers can spread, so plant in a constrained area.
- zones: 7 – 10
- sunlight: full sun to partial shade
- height: vine
- spacing: 6 feet
- how to eat: eat the small fruits raw.
- availability: April-October
Echinacea- Purple Coneflower $7
- zones: 3 – 9
- sunlight: full sun to partial shade
- height: 3-5 feet
- spacing: 2-3 feet
- use: attracts pollinators, medicinal herb
- availability: April-October
Fig $12
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 10 feet
- spacing: 6 feet
- pollination: self fertile
- availability: May-June
Goldenrod – Rough Stem $7
- zones: 4 – 8
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 3-5 feet
- spacing: 3-5 feet
- use: pollinator attractor
- availability: April-October
Good King Henry $7
- An old time, versatile, perennial vegetable
- zones: 3-10
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: up to 2 1/2 feet
- spacing: 2 feet
- how to eat: Eat the first shoots of spring like asparagus. Eat young leaves like spinach. Some people harvest and eat the seeds.
- availability: April-October
Groundcherry – Long Leaf Groundcherry $7
- zones: 4 – 9
- sunlight: full sun to partial shade
- height: 1-2 feet
- spacing: 2-3 feet
- use: Peel the husk and eat raw. They taste better after they have ripened in their husk for a couple of weeks at room temperature.
- availability: April-October
- pollination: self fertile
Groundcherry – Strawberry Groundcherry $7
- zones: 6 – 9
- sunlight: full sun to partial shade
- height: 1-2 feet
- spacing: 2-3 feet
- use: Peel the husk and eat raw. They taste better after they have ripened in their husk for a couple of weeks at room temperature.
- availability: April-October
- pollination: self fertile
Kale – Kaleidoscope Kale $7
- zones: 6-10
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 3 feet
- spacing: 3 feet
- availability: April-October
Kale – Sea Kale $7
- another old time perennial veggie, related to kale
- zones: 4-8
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 3 feet
- spacing: 3 feet
- how to eat: Eat the shoots in spring. Eat the new leaves like Kale. Eat the florets like broccoli
- availability: April-October
Lovage $7
- zones: 3-8
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: up to 6 feet
- spacing: 2 feet
- how to eat: Stalks are used as the straws for Bloody Marys. The leaves taste very strongly of strongly of celery and can be used in soups and salads.
- availability: April-October
Marjoram $7
- native to the Mediterranean
- zones: 6-8
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 1-2 feet
- spacing: 6-8 inches
- availability: April-October
Marshmallow $7
- Medicinal plant which attracts pollinators
- zones: 3-9
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 6 feet
- spacing: 18 inches
- availability: April-October
Milkweed – Common $7
- zones: 3 – 9
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 1-2 feet
- spacing: 6 inches
- use: pollinator attractor
- availability: April-October
Onion – Egyptian Walking Onion $7
- This onion forms bulbs on the tips of their leaves which fall over and take root when they get big enough.
- zones: 7
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 12 inches
- spacing: 12 inches
- how to eat: eat the top bulbs like shallots
- availability: April-October
Onion – Welsh Onion $7
- zones: 4-10
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 2 feet
- spacing: 4-6 inches
- how to eat: Eat the leaves as scallions or harvest the bulbs. Some people fry the flowers in butter. yum!
- availability: April-October
Onion – Flagpole Scallion $7
- very cold hardy
- zones: 2-9
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 3 feet or more
- spacing: 1 foot
- availability: April-October
Oregano $7
- zones: 4-7
- sunlight: full sun
- height: up to 1 foot
- spacing: 2 feet
- availability: April-October
Pawpaw $12
- A delicious native tree which produces creamy fruit which taste like a banana/mango cross
- zones: 5-9
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 20 feet
- spacing: 6-10 feet
- pollination: needs another unrelated tree nearby
- how to eat: fresh
- availability: September-October
Passionflower – Maypop $7
- This plant produces beautiful flowers and passionfruits. Maypop can spread, so plant in a constrained area.
- zones: 5 – 9
- sunlight: full sun to partial shade
- height: vine
- spacing: 3 feet
- how to eat: eat the passion fruits
- availability: April-October
Pomegranate – Russian Pomegranate $12
- zones: 7-10
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 6 feet
- spacing: 8-10 feet
- how to eat: eat like any pomegranate
- availability: April-October
Raspberry $12
- zones: 4-9
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 4-6 feet
- spacing: 3 feet
- pollination: self fertile
- availability: April-October
Rhubarb $7
- zones: 1-9
- sunlight: partial shade
- height: 1-2 feet
- spacing: 3 feet
- how to eat: Do not eat the leaves. Only the stalks are edible
- availability: April-October
Rosemary $7
- zones: 8-10
- sunlight: full sun
- height: up to 2 feet
- spacing: 12 inches
- availability: April-October
Sage $7
- zones: 5-10
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 2 feet tall
- spacing: 1 foot
- availability: April-October
Saint John’s Wort $7
- medicinal herb
- zones: 4-8
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 12-16 inches
- spacing: 18 inches
- availability: April-October
Salad Burnet $7
- A very cold tolerant salad green with a mild cucumber flavor
- zones: 4-10
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 1 foot
- spacing: 1-2 feet
- how to eat: eat the new greens in salads
- availability: April-October
Sorel $7
- zones: 3-9
- sunlight: partial shade
- height: 1 foot
- spacing: 2 feet
- how to eat: Eat the young leaves in salads or soups.
- availability: April-October
Strawberry $7
- zones: 4-8
- sunlight: full sun
- height: up to 1 foot
- spacing: 2 feet
- pollination: self fertile
- availability: April-October
Tarragon – Russian $7
- zones: 4-10
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- spacing: 18-24 inches
- availability: April-October
Thyme $7
- zones: 5-8
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: up to 1 foot
- spacing: 1 foot
- availability: April-October
Thyme – Creeping Thyme $7
- Great groundcover with pretty purple flowers.
- zones: 4-9
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 3-8 inches
- spacing: 1 foot
- availability: April-October
Turkish Rocket $7
- Perennial grown for its leaves and flowers – which are like broccoli raab. It could spread if not controlled
- zones: 4-10
- sunlight: full sun or partial shade
- height: 3-4 feet
- spacing: 1 foot
- how to eat: Eat ALL the flower heads to keep it from spreading. YUM!
- availability: April-October
Winter Savory $7
- zones: 6-9
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 8-15 inches
- spacing: 1-2 feet
- how to use: culinary and medicinal herb
- availability: April-October
Yarrow $7
- Medicinal Herb that attracts pollinators
- zones: 3-9
- sunlight: full sun
- height: 1-3 feet
- spacing: 1-2 feet
- how to use: medicinal herb
- availability: April-October