We are so excited that the weather is finally promising to clear and that we may have a few dry, warm days in a row.  Gardening in Central Illinois may actually begin!    Looking ahead then into April – we hope to see all of you at one of our Spring Plant Sales (kickoff Friday, April 16).

The following is just a partial list of the plants we will have for sale this Spring:  French Tarragon, Greek Oregano, Italian Parsley, Large leaf Italian Basil, Sage, Brussel Sprouts, Stonehead and Red Acre cabbage, Fennel, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cucumbers and Eggplant.

Then there are all the wonderful tomatoes:  Jubilee Tomato – golden-orange small, Early Wonder Tomato – 55 day 6oz, Gulf State Market – nice red tomato (sold out of these last year), Lemon Boy Tomato – yellow 7 oz, Pink Girl Tomato – 8 oz. (new to us this year; highly recommended by expert gardeners) Celebrity Tomato (you cannot go wrong with a Celebrity),Better Boy Tomato and back by popular demand, the purple Cherokee tomato.

And Big Bertha sweet green bell peppers.  It makes me wonder who names these varieties…

Have a great week.  We look forward to seeing you soon!

Thanks for the question.  Yes, we will have some seeds for sale on April 16 &17, but we won’t have the German radish seed.  We order the seeds that we intend to grow and then because we can buy in bulk quantities, sell smaller portions to interested gardeners.  This process works well for us since we know and like these products.

Seeds: Blue Lake Green beans (great variety, sold out of these last year), Jade Green Beans (another outstanding green bean), endive, Ruby Queen beet seed, Candy King (all yellow sweet corn variety), mixed gourd and Connecticut Field  pumpkins (large, jack o lantern pumpkins), Black Seeded Simpson and romaine lettuce as well as Sparkler (25 day) radishes, Sugar Bon and Super Sugar Snap snowpeas, Melody and Unipack 12 spinach.

For unusual varieties of seed, we have had a great experience with:

http://www.kitchengardenseeds.com/

http://www.totallytomato.com/

http://www.jungseed.com/

Have a great week and keep those seedlings warm!

This year our annual flowers highlight the spectrum of warm tropical colors.  So prepare to shake off winter with these wonderful beach like additions.

French Vanilla Marigolds, Orange and Yellow Marigolds, Zinnias, Nasturtiums, Wave Petunias- pink, purple, red and starfish (a variety of colors), and Up-right Elephant ears

Wave petunias will be available in hanging baskets as well as the traditional 4″ pots.

 We are very excited about this year’s perennials.  A few like red  yarrow and the hellebores (or Lenten rose) are new to us while others like red hot poker and large hostas are staples for any flower garden. 

Red Yarrow, Hellebores- mixed colors, Astillbe, Delphinium, Dianthus, Fox glove, Coral bells, Large Hostas, Pink Hydrangea, Red hot Poker, 2 kinds of Lavender, 7 Kinds of Asiatic and Oriental Lilies, Phlox, Rubeckia, Bi-color butterfly bush and Blue Butterfly Bush

Just an aside, this is the first time I’ve ever seen a blue butterfly bush- and the pink hydrangea bushes we have are gorgeous!