The Spring Plant Sale is coming soon! 
  • San Juan island
    Saturday May 17, 9am -12pm, Mullis Center
  • Orcas island
    Sunday May 18, 10am - 12pm, Orcas Island Grange    ​

Variety list for 2025

Below are the varieties of vegetables, herbs, and perennials for sale this year.
​Quantities are limited, come early for the best selection!
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Vegetables

TOMATOES
Indeterminate: Vining plants that continue to grow and produce tomatoes until frost
  • Black Cherry: high yield, rich taste, look like large dusky brown grapes, 65 days
  • Cherokee, Purple: flavorful, good producers, 80 days
  • Paul Robeson: black in color, 7 to 10 in. fruit, 90 days
  • Provencal: from France, delicious flavor, large slicers
  • Stupice: 2-inch fruit, grows well in PNW, 65 days
  • Sweet Million: small red cherry, 4–6-foot vine, 55-68 days
  • Sungold: apricot orange cherry fruits, grows on trusses very vigorous, 65 days
  • Fruit Punch: pink cherry fruits, sweet, vigorous, great for salads and sauce
  • Orange Paruche: vigorous, quick growing, vitamin packed, sweet tangy flavor, 67 days
  • Amish Paste: acorn shaped, deep red, medium size 8-12 once fruit, 85 days
Determinate: plants produce few leaves and flowers over a shorter period, reach height and stop ripening at the same time
  • Cosmonaut Volkov: fruits from the Ukraine, 2-3 inch, 72 days
  • Gold Nugget: golden cherry tomatoes, 1 ½ inch, grow well in pots, 60 days
  • Principe Borghese: good for drying, 80 days
  • Little Napoli: great Roma tomato for containers, high-yield paste tomatoes, great for salsa or sauce, 60-65 days
PEPPERS
Sweet
  • Jimmy Nardello: large, long sweet pepper, ripens green to red, 75 days
  • Padron: small, sweet pepper used in Spain for tapas, 1 in 10 is hot
  • Shishito: Japanese variety, sweet, thin skinned, citrus flavor 1 in 10 are hot 60 days
  • Sweet Italian: when ripe they are crisp red or orange, gentle flavor, 58 days
Hot
  • Fish: small chili pepper, ripen white with green streaks to dark red, grow to 1.5-2 inches, 80 days
  • Anaheim: classic green chili, ripens to red, medium heat, 74 days
  • Jalapeño: hot, stocky, 2-3 fruits, 66 days
  • Poblano: gently hot, great for chiles rellenos, grows to 6-inch fruit, 75 days​
SQUASH
  • Costata Romanseco: Summer, famous Italian ribbed zucchini, 52 days
  • Butter Baby Butternut: Winter, sweet and rich, weigh 0.5-1.5 pounds, grow to 4-6 inches,100 days ​
CUCUMBERS
  • Marketmore: dark green color, slicer, 70 days
  • Suhyo Long: sweet mild, stake to keep fruits straight, 65 days

Herbs

Basil
  • Genovese/Sweet 
  • Lettuce Leaf  
  • Siam Queen Thai 
​Flat Leaf Parsley
​Mint

Perennials

D: Drought tolerant
P: Attracts pollinators
Allium (Allium) D, P 
Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) P 
Beach Strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis) D, P 
Bearded Iris (Iris x germanica) D, P 
Bee Balm (Monarda) D, P 
Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) D, P 
Blue Star Creeper (Isotoma fluviatilis) D, P 
Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans) D, P 
Brass Buttons (Leptinella squalida) P 
California Poppies (Eschscholzia californica) D, P 
Campion (silene caryophyelaceae) D, P 
Candelera (Eriobotrya japonica) D, P 
Candy Tuft (Iberis sempervirens) D, P 
Cicely (Osmorhiza claytonii) P 
Coral Bells (Heuchera sanguinea) D, P 
Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia) P 
Creeping Phlox (Phlox subulata) D, P 
Creeping Raspberry (Rubus calycinoides) D, P 
Creeping Thyme (Thymus serpyllum) D, P 
Crocosmia (Montbretia) D, P 
Dahlia (Dahlia) P 
Forsythia (Forsythia) D, P 
Golden Raspberry (Rubus idaeus var. aureus) D, P 
Goldenrod (Solidago) D, P 
Grape Hyacinth (Muscari) D, P 
Grape Vine (Vitis vinifera) D, P 
Ground Elder (Aegopodium podagraria)  P    
Japanese forest grass (hakonechloa macra) 
Lady’s Mantle (Alchemilla mollis) D, P 
Lamb's Ear (Stachys byzantina) D, P 
Lavender (Lavandula) D, P 
Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis) D, P 
Lovage (Levisticum officinale) D, P 
Marionberry (Rubus ursinus) D, P    
Nodding onion (Allium cernuum) D, P 
Oxalis (Oxalis) D, P 
Pigsqueak (Bergenia) D, P 
Pink Cranesbill Geranium (Geranium x oxoniarum)  D, P 
Primrose (Primula auricula Hedi) P 
Red raspberry (rubus idaeus) D, P 
Sage (Salvia officinalis) D, P 
Sea Holly (Eryngium)    D, P 
Sea Thrift (Armeria maritima) D, P 
Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum x superbum) D, P 
Siberian Iris (Iris sibirica) D, P 
Stinking Iris (Iris foetidissima) D, P 
Stonecrop (Sedum) D, P 
Strawberry begonia (Saxifraga stolonoifera) P 
Tickseed (Coreopsis) D, P 
Yarrow (achillea millefolium) D, P 
Yerba Buena (Clinopodium douglasii) D, P