All Plants

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

Our sweetest variety, super early and thin skinned too! Incredibly productive plants provide loads of 1/2” yellow fruit with a blue-red shoulders non-stop until frost.

• Open Pollinated
• Early Season
• Indeterminate

Our favorite cherry tomato. 3/4" fruits are a beautiful pale yellow, sweet, nicely balanced, thin-skinned and easy to pick. Polite, indeterminate plants produce well.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

Local Variety and uniquely delicious! Bred by Fred Hempel of Baia Nicchia Farm in Sunol, this pink + orange striped cherry tomato is unique. Sweet without being too sugary and with complex, layered flavors that other cherries don’t have. 1” fruits are a perfect size and hold well on the vine.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

Local variety, unique and delicious!. Bred by Fred Hempel of Baia Nicchia Farm in Sunol, this orange + yellow striped cherry tomato is sweet, but also packs layers of complex flavors you won’t find in plain ‘ole cherries. 1” fruits are a perfect size and hold well on the vine.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
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The MOST productive cherry variety I’ve ever met. Big, sprawling plants produce enormous numbers of delicious 1/2"-3/4” yellow fruits with a citrusy flavor and a sweet finish. Very popular with our customers.

• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

Classic, rich, complex sweet flavors Brandywines are famous for, and this one produces consistently. 5" beefsteak fruits tend to come in flushes, 8-10 or more in a flush, then you must wait patiently for the next flush. Well worth it! On Slow Food's Ark of Taste list as a rare, endangered variety.

• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

A Bulgarian heirloom that produces LOTS of smooth, red, crack-free, blemish-free red globe tomatoes with a good balance of flavor. Not too sweet or tart. This is a very good red variety that does especially well in raised beds.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

Very productive and with great flavor, this black beefsteak variety is much loved amongst seed traders yet little known in the commercial trade. Medium sized beefsteak fruits are meaty and a deep red/brown.

• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

Another great heart tomato and good for small gardens! Compact plants produce large pink, dense, meaty, heart-shaped fruits with very few seeds and excellent full flavors. Tolerates heat well. As with many heart varieties, production is moderate, but the flavor and texture is worth it!

• Open Pollinated
• Mid-Late Season
• Indeterminate

Large, smooth skinned fruit are a long time favorite with tomato growers. Beautiful orange flesh, a classic beefsteak. Rates high every year for flavor.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate, Potato Leaf

One of our favorite bi-color tomatoes. Sweet, richly flavored and well balanced, this beauty has produced extremely well for us and is a hit with most who taste it. Medium to large sized fruit are orange-yellow with beautiful red streaks.

• Open Pollinated
• Early-Mid Season
• Indeterminate

Fantastic tomato! As a heart variety of the standard Cherokee Purple, it’s got all the delicious, full flavor plus it’s meaty and juicy but with few seeds and less gel. It’s all goodness, and produces SO much better than the standard. Unlike other oxheart plants that grow leggy and wispy, this variety is well-branched with good leaf coverage.

• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

A rare 100 year old heirloom from Russia and a favorite of mine. Orange-yellow beefsteak fruit are well balanced with a perfect amount of sweetness. Produces well and consistently year to year.

• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

One of my favorites! Very good production of large mahogany red beefsteak fruits that are full flavored, juicy, sweet and with good texture. Plants are hardy and have produced fairly early for me.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid-Late Season
• Indeterminate

An improved, disease resistant version of Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter. Large, smooth, juicy red beefsteak fruits grow on very sturdy, healthy plants. They start slow, but catch up and produce better and better as the season progresses. If you have disease problems but want a big meaty beefsteak, this is your ticket!

• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

Sweet and thin-skinned with low acid, this classic old heirloom variety from Virginia produces large, beautifully streaked beefsteak tomatoes. Productive, and a customer favorite.

• Heirloom
• Early/Mid Season
• Indeterminate

Great for that hot, dry corner of the garden and an early producer, this variety keeps fruiting even when temperatures rise. Smooth, crack-free globe shaped fruit has a good, well balanced flavor, better than most early varieties.

• Heirloom
• Early Season
• Indeterminate

Our best tasting early tomato. Easy to grow, with consistently good production of yellow, smooth crack-free 3-4" fruit with very good sweet, citrusy flavors. A Russian heirloom.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

Hands-down our #1 customer favorite! Tropical sweet flavors abound in a beautiful, colorful, early beefsteak. Very productive and consistent every year. Super easy variety to grow.

• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

Fantastic, subtle, sweet flavors and very juicy. A definite favorite of mine. Great with Burrata or other mild fresh cheeses. Produces incredibly well every year. They don’t hold well once picked, but they’re so good you’ll want to eat them immediately anyway. On Slow Food's Ark of Taste list as an endangered variety.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate

I LOVE this tomato. Large purple-brown-red beefsteaks are meaty, sweet, full flavored and resist cracking. This one excels in raised beds and produces LOADS of fruit over a long season. A recent introduction by a highly regarded midwest grower/breeder.

• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
• Plum/Paste type

5" long tapered fruits have the best flavor of pastes, in our opinion. Meaty, juicy and sweet, these are wonderful for salsas and sauces, but even good for slicing into salads. Does especially well in raised beds.

• Heirloom
• Early Season
• Mild to Sweet

This classic wax pepper is perfect for pickling but also great for fresh eating. Tapered 6-in. fruits get sweeter as they ripen from yellow to scarlet red. Harvested yellow and pickled, they are crunchy, tangy and mild. Fully ripened red peppers are good fresh or as a frying pepper. Plants produce early and are productive.

• Heirloom
• Early Season
• Sweet

Fantastic sweet crunchy peppers and an early producer. Fruits are bright red with thin flesh, crisp, sweet and complex. Great for eating right off the vine or as a frying pepper. On Slow Food's Ark of Taste list as an endangered variety.

• Heirloom
• Early Season
• Bell type

Early and reliable red bell pepper, this one tolerates our cool nights better than other bell varieties, and can be harvested red or green. Introduced in 1934 as an early, reliable producer of blocky, red, sweet bell peppers for challenging climates.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Bell type

Excellent sweet flavor and productive for a bell. Some years fruit comes quite early, other years somewhat late, but always a good producer of thick fleshed, beautiful, tasty bells.

• Heirloom
• Mid Season

A delicious thick fleshed, sweet red heirloom pepper from Bulgaria. Great eaten fresh but also very good roasted. 5” long tapered fruits ripen from green to mahogany to red, and are quite productive.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid season
• Medium Heat

Long, tapered red chiles are thin-fleshed with medium heat and a hint of sweetness. Good for frying or adding to salsas. They tend to get hotter the longer they hang on the plant, and later in the season.

• Open Pollinated
• Early/Mid Season
• Mild-Medium Heat, 1500-3000 SHU

An excellent New Mexico variety. The 6”-8” pods ripen to a stunning earthy red. Thick fleshed with sweetness and mild to medium heat. This do-it-all pepper is fabulous roasted or stuffed, but are fantastic raw too. They produce very well and for a long season.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Medium heat

These rich, smoky chiles from NE Africa are a rare variety here. Named for the aromatic dried spice central to Ethiopian cuisine. Long narrow pods slowly ripen from green to brown and have a medium+ heat when fully ripe.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Hot - Very Hot, 8000-23,000 SHU

A must for fresh salsas and guacamole. Notably hotter than jalapeños, these 2.5" long peppers grow on productive 2' plants.

• Heirloom
• Mid-Season
• Medium heat, 2000-4000 SHU

Unmatched flavor! My go-to chile for roasting and stuffing. Very productive too. This is one of the famous 'Hatch' chiles grown for over a century in the Hatch Valley of New Mexico. Medium heat.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Medium Heat, 3,000 - 17,000 SHU

Jumbo sized, thick-fleshed, crisp jalapeños, these easy-to-grow peppers are perfect for poppers, or for fresh salsas and guacamole. So crisp and fresh you’ll never want to buy another supermarket jalapeno. I find them to be on the mild side for a jalapeño. Plants grow to 30" tall and are very productive.

• Open Pollinated
• Late Season
• Mild-No Heat

Amazing bright, citrus-floral flavors with a hint of sweetness—all the wonderful flavor of a habanero but without the searing heat! Habanada is a truly heatless habañero with all the bright spiciness unmasked. This one will have a place in my garden every year. Plants are productive, but fruit requires patience. Worth the wait.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Mild heat

3" long tapered fruit are mild when green and somewhat sweet when ripened to red. Very popular as a frying variety. Great as mild alternative to Padron, served tapas style. 1 in 20 may have a bit more heat. Very popular and expensive at market.

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Mild to Very Hot

Classic tapas pepper. Small, thin-skinned, and mild when young (although about 1 in 20 will be hot). If left to mature to red, the peppers will be ruthlessly hot. Productive plants, particularly as the season wears on.

• Open Pollinated
• Vining Habit

Aka “Persian Cucumber,” this is a wonderful, productive middle-eastern variety. Fruits have a thin edible skin, crisp sweet flesh and almost no seed cavity. Our best selling variety.

• Open Pollinated
• Bush Habit

Great for small gardens! Plants have a compact bush habit, and are early, heavy producers of mild, striped 4-6” fruits that are great for slicing or pickles. Said to be mildew resistant. Plants spread to about 30”.

• Open Pollinated
• Vining Habit

The classic yellow, rounded cucumber with crisp flesh and a slight lemon background flavor.

• Heirloom
• Vining Habit

Japanese cucumbers are known for being less bitter and more succulent than our standard varieties. Natsu Fushinari is vigorous, sets loads of fruit, does well in heat and resists powdery mildew. Fruits are 8" long and slender with deep green, glossy skin. Give this plant extra space, it will spread! Does especially well in raised beds.

• Heirloom
• Vining Habit

A superb cucumber and a vigorous producer, I love this variety. Great for slicing, eating in the garden or pickling. Crispy, bright and no bitterness. 2-3" blocky, cream to green fruits.

• Open Pollinated
• Vining Habit

Vigorous and very productive. Vines produce long, fluted pale green fruits with tender skin and a dense, tender flesh. Very mild flavor. They can grow very large on the vine and still be tender and mild.

• Heirloom
• Vining habit

A unique Australian heirloom, the fruit is the size of a lemon cucumber but is lime-green in color. Flavor is very mild, sweet and juicy with no bitterness Eat them skin and all.

• Hybrid F1
• Bush Habit
• Zucchini type

Delicious, pretty and easy to find on the plant, these butter yellow straightneck squash are great when picked young. Excellent for grilling, stir frying or roasting. Plants are mildew resistant too! Low growing with an open bush habit.

• Hybrid F1
• Bush Habit
• Cousa type

Considered the best of the Mid-east type squashes, Magda produces loads of short, plump fruit with pale green skin. Flavor is sweet and faintly nutty, perfect for stuffing or as a zucchini substitute.

• Hybrid F1
• Bush Habit

Pretty, prolific, and tasty! This unique variety is cross of crookneck and an acorn + delicata squash. Yellow fruit with pale green blossom ends are easy to see and tender with a nutty flavor. Pick them young for the best flavor and texture. Some fruit may stray from the two-tone appearance, particularly under stress conditions.

• Heirloom
• Vining habit

A staple in Mexican cooking, this hardy native of Mexico grows well in heat and produces pound after pound of flavorful, firm fleshed squash that many favor over zucchini. Fruits are round and firm, perfect sliced and grilled, but also stuffed or sauteed. The long vines are prolific bloomers and the flowers are delicious too! Plants are aggressive and send out long vines, so give it a large trellis and lots of space!

• Open Pollinated
• Vine Habit

Fun to grow with a BIG payback! Long fruits are buttery, firm, mild flavored and great for grilling. Seed cavity is only in the bulb end so you get a ton of meat in each squash. Great as summer squash but can be left to mature as winter squash. Keeps very well.

• Hybrid F1
• Vining Habit
• Spaghetti type

A small spaghetti squash variety, perfect for single servings. Uniform, deep yellow egg-shaped fruit are a good pasta substitute, just bake, fork out the flesh and top with your favorite pasta sauce. Fruits are 1.5-2 lbs on average.

• Heirloom
• ViningHabit

Delicata is one of the sweetest keeper squashes, with a rich, tender flavor reminiscent of sweet potatoes. Oblong cream colored fruit with green stripes and specks are easy to grow and weigh in at 1 to 1.5 lbs each. Keeper squashes such as this take the summer to grow and mature and are ready typically in later summer or fall when the skin is harder and the plant is no longer feeding the fruit.

• Open Pollinated
• Vining Habit
• Hubbard type

A stunning, small version of Blue Hubbard with smooth blue skin. 2-4 lb fruits have sweet, bright orange, fiberless flesh and grow on plants that have a part bush, part vining habit.

• Open Pollinated
• Vining Habit

Classic butternut squash, keeps well and is easy to grow.

• Open Pollinated
• Early producer

A very productive and early producer of smooth, dark purple slender fruits with mild flavor and no bitterness. Very easy to grow!

• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season

A Taiwanese variety and a mid-early producer of long, slender fruits with tender, magenta skin. No need to peel! Harvest when fruit is shiny and smooth, before losing its luster.

• Open Pollinated
• Vining Habit
• Muskmelon

Incredibly fragrant fruit is sweet, floral and juicy with bright orange flesh. Vines are quite productive, producing 6-8" ribbed fruits consistently over a long season. Irresistible.

• Open Pollinated
• Vining habit
• Oriental type

Different than other melons we know, these fruits are small--snack sized, and eaten like an apple, skin and all! Very sweet and crisp. From Japan.

• Local Heirloom
• Slow Food Ark of Taste Variety
• Vining habit
• Crenshaw type

A local heirloom developed in the early 20th century by Oliver Crane of Santa Rosa. Crenshaw type melons grow 4+ lbs, with orange flesh that is firm, succulent, highly aromatic and sweet.

Classic pesto basil. Keep flowers pinched off to promote leafy growth.

Aromatic and beautiful Thai basil with a pronounced licorice-anise flavor and scent. Very attractive and delicious.

A versatile and hardy basil with a well balanced anise-lemon-basil flavor. Plants are slow to flower, making maintenance easy.

A must grow herb for any garden! Compact plants with wonderfully aromatic leaves and flowers have a warm, sweet clove scent and make a very calming, grounding tea. Pollinators love it too, as it blooms prolifically all season. Deadhead spent flowers to replenish the plant.

Classic middle-eastern herb that is very versatile and easy to grow. The flavor is kind of a cross between oregano, marjoram and thyme. Perennial and polite, it’s easy to keep happy.

A super bloomer and absolute magnet for butterflies, hummingbirds and bees. Brilliant 2 1/2” orange flowers cover 5’-6’ tall plants in summer and fall. Thrives in heat. Annual.

A beautiful ornamental specimen and a pollinator magnet! Place this large basil where you can watch the pollinator show. It blooms non-stop all summer and fall, and while it is edible, it is quite intense and mostly used as a habitat plant. A tender perennial grown as an annual, and a sterile hybrid.

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A compact Cosmos, great for planting at the edge of the vegetable garden or at the base of taller plants. Loves sun, requires little water and blooms all summer and fall.

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Compact, bushy plants are covered in bright, double, 4”-5” blooms all summer and fall. Perfect for front-of-bed, these zinnias stay under 18” tall. Deadhead for continuous bloom. F1 Hybrid.

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These happy zinnias are smothered in 2” daisy-like brightly colored blooms all summer and fall. Great in mass plantings or front-of-bed. Stays nice and compact, 12” x 15”. F1 Hybrid. Annual.

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Low growing and super blooming, this scarlet red annual is a magnet for hummingbirds. Bushy and compact, it’s a good front-of-bed plant, or tucked into the herb garden. Reseeds. Annual.

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A truly unique flowering vine. Intoxicatingly fragrant, nautilus shaped flowers bloom on this vigorous tropical vine from mid summer through fall. Carpenter bees just can’t get enough and it’s fun to watch them work their way into the corkscrew blooms. If protected, it will overwinter like a deciduous perennial.