Potato Sets and High Mowing organic Seeds are available in our Farmstand.
The potato sets pre-weighed and placed in trays. The trays allow good air flow and also prevent the little sprouts from getting broken off. Each tray contains 1 pound of sets so please take a full tray. And, Please don’t re-arrange potatoes between trays.
Open the “Potato Set” post on our blog or FB page to get a list of varieties. There is also some potato growing information under the “Gardening Tips” tab on out blog.
$5.00 per tray
Organic seed packets from High Mowing Organic Seeds are located in the cooler. We have chosen seeds that are best for direct planting. The seeds in the “Cool Season” display can be planted now. The “Warm season” seeds can be planted after all danger of frost – usually around Mothers Day. Some of the display slots have more than 1 variety of seed so be sure to check for that. For example, there are 2 different varieties of cucumbers, sunflowers & zinnias and 3 varieties of lettuce.
Bintje – Suitable for a large container Netherlands heirloom, most widely grown, high yielder, keeps well Netherlands heirloom from 1904 and the most widely-grown yellow variety in the world. High yielder of medium-sized tubers, keeps exceptionally well, grows anywhere, and has excellent flavor anyway you fix them.
Austrian Crescent – Smooth, yellow-tan skin and light yellow flesh. Prolific yields run as long as 10″, some weight as much as 7oz. Excellent salad qualities, firm and waxy, or delicious simply boiled or steamed. Our favorite is to chunk them and roast with garlic, rosemary & olive oil. Limited quantities available
A taste-test favorite, Purple Viking is a large, early, all-purpose potato. The meaty tubers have unique purple-pink mottled skin and moist, bright white flesh with a rich, slightly sweet and buttery flavor. Excellent for both mashing and baking.
Rose Gold – Rose Gold – Rosy red skin with a creamy delicious deep yellow flesh. Dry flesh is perfect baked or steamed. Disease resistant.
Our certified potato sets are here and are one of the things you can plant now!
Potato sets will be available starting Sunday – April 9th – in our self service farmstand.
We choose specific varieties based on flavor, plant health & good yield. Potatoes are a fun project and one of the vegetables that have an amazing flavor difference compared to the typical grocery store varieties.
$5.00 per container – Rose Gold, Bintje & Purple Viking are 1 pound – Austrian Crescent is 12 ounces
Root Pouch Planting Bag Available is 15 gallon size – $10.00 and 7 gallon size – $6.00
Made from a blend of recycled plastic water bottles & natural fibers.
The 15 gallon bag is perfect for potatoes!
We will also have organic soil available but are waiting for delivery.
We will be offering packaged seed from High Mowing Organic Seed again this year. $3.00 per package
These were chosen because either they do not like to be disturbed or they grow so quickly from seed that there is no need to purchase transplants. Hover over each picture for the variety name.
We will have the seeds available at the same time you pick up your plants, potato sets, soil, ect… However, there are some things (arugula, spinach, peas) that can be planted now if you have your space prepared. If you would like to get your seeds early, contact us with a list and you can pick them up in the farmstand.
We are growing a few varieties of determinate dwarf tomatoes. All are perfect for growing where you don’t have a garden bed.
Plants are growing in organic soil and raised from seed in our organic greenhouse.
We will be selling them in 4 inch biodegradable Fertil pots for $3.50 each
Cyril’s Choice – An early dwarf tomato that is also very productive for such small vines. Plants produce several flushes of dark red fruit, yielding later into the season than other determinate types. Fruit are little 2-3 oz saladettes with good sweet flavor. At 2′ tall they are good for container gardening
Amber 1-3 oz, yellow-gold globes are plentiful and early, yielding for quite a while despite being determinate.
Gundula – Dwarf bushes produce medium-sized, 2-3 oz meaty fruit prolifically and early. Very good for container gardening, as plants only reach 12-20” tall at maturity.
Uralskiy Ranniy – super early dwarf plants are very well-suited for container culture. Red, 2-4 oz, mini-beefsteak shaped fruit are juicy with good flavor.
Root Pouch Planting Bag
Root Pouch planting bags are perfect for container tomatoes. The 7 gallon size will fit a tomato plant in the center and you can plant some early seeds like lettuce around the edge. $6.00 each for the 7 gal. We also have some 15 gal bags for $10.00
Some of what we will be growing this year – Snapdragons, China Asters, Lavender, Stock, Red Amaranth, Persian Cress & Cosmos
We have lots of flowers growing in our greenhouse that will be ready for our cut flower bouquets this summer. In past years, we have provided the jar with the flowers to help keep them happy. We are now totally out of jars.
We really prefer to provide the jar, so are looking for pint size or quart size canning jars. Jars smaller than pint size are not usable for our cut flowers. There are a few things that come in similar size jars (spaghetti sauce, pickles, sauerkraut) and we can use them.
“Mason jar” bouquets from 2020 in pint size canning jars
If you have jars that you would like to drop off, you can leave them in our Farmstand.
Thank you in advance for helping us to continue keeping our flowers happy on their way to making people happy!
The texture is pleasantly chewy, and the flavor is sweet and rich. Plants are extra vigorous and tall, staying healthy for a long picking period.
Beautiful black cherries look like large, dusky purple-brown grapes; they have that rich flavor that makes black tomatoes famous. Large vines yield very well; very unique and delicious.
Flavor is reminiscent of red currant types, and more tart than you would expect with a name like Sweet Cherriette. Fruit are larger than true currants, but smaller than cherry tomatoes. We call it an indeterminate dwarf, as it pumps out several flushes of fruit over the course of the season.
Exceptionally sweet, bright tangerine-orange cherry tomatoes leave everyone begging for more. Vigorous plants start yielding early and bear right through the season. One of the few non-heirloom tomatoes we grow because it’s sooo good!
The fruit has a bright, sweet flavor, and the color is vibrant fire-engine-red with golden orange striping. Vigorous vines yield crack resistant fruit over a very long season. Tolerates cool nighttime temps and hot days.
Cherry tomato varieties that we will have available this year
We grow all of our tomatoes from seed in organic soil. This year we will be selling them in a 4 inch Fertil pot for $3.50 each.
We are now in the process of adding everything to our blog and FB page and will begin taking pre-orders when everything is added.
Click on each photo for a description and enjoy the tomato beauty! These are all indeterminate varieties and will need good support.
Full size and salad size tomatoes that we will have available as plants this year. We grow all of our tomatoes from seed in organic soil. This year we will be selling them in a 4 inch biodegradable Fertil pot for $3.50 each.
We are now in the process of adding everything to our blog and FB page and will begin taking pre-orders when everything is added.
Click on each photo for a description and enjoy the tomato beauty! These are all indeterminate varieties and will need good support.
We have lots of soap in various stages of curing. I made my last Spring batch on Saturday so it will have 6 weeks of curing time before our first Creekside Market Day of 2021 – May 1st!
Lots of favorites and a few new scents
Our basic recipe contains local goat milk, Olive oil, coconut oil, tallow, shea butter, castor oil & our own honey. We use natural clays & pigments for color and essential oils & phthalate free fragrance oils for scent.
The baby pepper & eggplant plants are ready for larger containers and the tomatoes are starting to come up.
The cool season plants (broccoli, cabbage, collards, kale, swiss chard & lettuce) will soon be moving to their transition spot in the coldframe and will be available as transplants for your garden.
We will also be selling herbs, potato sets, strawberry plants. Plus- we have lots of succulents & more flowers this year.
Yesterday was a very busy tomato seed starting day – 915 seeds!
Most of these seed trays came with the baby plants we purchased (flowers, succulents & some of our herbs). We wash & disinfect them so that we can use them over and over. When we run out of them, we switch to biodegradable pots or make soil blocks. They still have to sit on a plastic tray, but it really reduces our use of plastic!
Our most beautiful seed packages (and most of our tomatoes) come from Bakers Creek Heirloom Seeds
Some of my favorites – Big Rainbow, Mortgage Lifter, Blue Beauty & Piglet Willy
A couple of new varieties – Golden of Siberia & Jasper
Plus several determinate dwarf varieties for container growing
In the next few weeks, we will add a complete list of varieties with information on how you can reserve your plants.
All of our plants are growing in Organic soil in our Organic greenhouse. We use biodegradable containers as much as possible for the plants we sell.
Even though it’s really late winter – it feels like spring (sometimes summer) in the greenhouse. The baby plants are starting to grow – the hot peppers have been moved from their plug size trays into a larger tray (1 more move up before they’re ready) – the cool season veggies are coming along – And, the succulents arrived yesterday!
More sunny days and lots more greenhouse work in the forecast
We have raw honey that is produced on our organic farm.
While we can’t control where the bees from our hives choose to forage –
we do provide them with plenty of great options!
Our Farm yard is filled with organic vegetables, flowers, flowering trees & flowering cover crops. We also have 20 acres of pollinator habitat, 8 acres of Monarch butterfly habitat and the remainder of our fields are planted in grass and alfalfa. The alfalfa gets a lovely purple flower that the bees love.
We have put together a kit with all the ingredients you need to make a batch of fresh salsa. Including our Creekside recipe!
You can pick up a kit or 2 from our Farmstand cooler for $6.00
So, I made a batch using the ingredients from 1 kit. It took me 15 minutes from washing to finished and made 3 cups of finished salsa.
I remove the seeds and membranes from the jalapeno peppers to decrease the heat. I also try not to touch the insides of the peppers and immediately wash my hands.
Broccoli, Dragon Tongue beans, summer squash (zucchini, lemon and patty pan), eggplant, bell peppers, beets, okra, cucumbers, garlic, plus tomatoes (cherry, roma and slicers) and a few bags of sweet corn.
And 3 bouquet choices:
Mixed flowers are $8., sunflowers and zinnia bouquets are $5.
Our honey comes from hives on our farm. The hives are located between our organic gardens and our field where we have 30 acres of pollinator & monarch habitat as well as 35 acres of hay. So, while we can’t tell our bees where to fly – they really would have no reason to leave our farm! It is raw (not pasteurized) .
We do not keep honey stocked in our Farmstand. You can pick it up there by contacting us ahead of coming out.
We have finished digging all of our garlic and have it curing in the barn.
It takes a couple of weeks to cure but can also be used in it’s “green” condition.
Curing brings a more mellow flavor and dries the wrapper. It also brings out the beautiful color of the the pink & purple wrappers. Cured garlic can be stores for months in the correct conditions. You can braid it and hang it in your kitchen (lots of videos on line) – just snip off a bulb as you need it. It’s possible to braid some of the softer stemmed hard neck varieties while they are still green, but easier with the soft neck varieties.
We will be selling the green garlic this week and we start with the hard neck varieties.
Large bulbs are $2.00 each
Jumbo bulbs are $3.00 each
We will have our Music variety of garlic separated for those who want this variety.
They will be priced at $3.00 each.
Music garlic is a “Garlic Lovers” garlic! This garlic variety is prized for it’s mild flavor and ease of peeling. Its flavor is well developed without any bitterness, and it does not disappear when cooked. Just one clove can add so much flavor to any recipe, so it is time-saving! This variety keeps well until April or May when stored properly. Most bulbs average 4-5 cloves.
We have fresh cut Lemon Balm in the farmstand cooler. $3.00
Lemon Balm strengthens your body’s defense mechanisms, making you more resilient to colds and the flu.
It is also known to dramatically reduce inflammation, protecting you against disease, and chronic illness.
Other super properties of this amazing natural ingredient include:
Thyroid regulation
Aids indigestion
High level of antibacterial and anti-fungal activity
The easiest way to use it is to make a tea with the fresh leaves. I strip the leaves from the stems and tear the leaves into small pieces. Add the torn leaves to a container of water and put the container in the refrigerator overnight. To speed the process, put the leaves in a small pan and pour boiling water over the leaves. Allow to steep for about 30 minutes. Strain the leaves and dilute with cd water to desired strength.
Lemon Balm Vinaigrette
This is delicious on salads, especially fish or chicken salads. You can also marinate chicken or fish in this mixture before cooking.
