A Few Good Plants Price List
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On our small farm in southwest Missouri, we raise chickens, grow vegetables, and save seeds for ourselves and our customers. The varieties we choose to grow are selected for great taste, good production, and tolerance to our highly variable weather conditions.
We don’t grow all of the seeds that we sell, but we do trial grow outs to make sure that all of our varieties are well suited to our region, and to small scale, backyard gardening.
All of the vegetable seeds that we sell are open pollinated. In simple terms, open pollinated means that seeds saved from a variety, when planted next year, will come back true-to-type--with the same characteristics as their parents. Open pollinated plants can be improved by good selection practices which would include saving seed from the healthiest, best producing individual plants. Over time, production, taste, and nutrition from these well selected plants can greatly improve. This type of selection can also allow plants to adapt to changing weather and environmental conditions.
Since we grow on a small scale, we focus on selecting varieties with qualities that are often hard to find in most seed catalogs. We like varieties that are vigorous and healthy, and especially one’s that will produce a crop in the spring and fall--outside of our hottest and driest summer months. For varieties that need to grow through these months, heat and drought tolerance are a must.
To be most useful, vegetables need to lend themselves to affordable storage methods. Crops that store well in the ground are beets and rutabaga. For room temperature storage in the pantry grow squash and dried beans. Tomatoes, peppers and summer squash all dry well and can be stored in jars or plastic bags. Beets and cucumbers can be pickled. Almost all vegetables may be canned and frozen if properly prepared and processed.
Finally, as chickens are an important part of our food-raising plan, we have tried to select vegetables that can help supplement our purchase of commercial poultry feed. Most of our varieties, if produced in surplus, can be fed to your chickens and other poultry. Fruit or greens that are bug eaten, over ripe, rain damaged, or parts left over after canning or freezing are all appreciated by your birds.
Seed collection: 12 heirloom vegetable varieties for $12.00. 2 tomato, 2 pepper, cucumber, 2 squash, lettuce, collard greens, beet, basil and dill.
For the seed collection, send $12.00 check or money order to:
A Few Good Plants
7595 S.W. Highway DD
El Dorado Springs, MO 64744
The following varieties are included in our seed collection. They may also be purchased separately for $1.50 per packet.
Shipping on orders under $12.00 costs $3.00. Free shipping on orders of $12.00 or more.
| We reserve the right to substitute a similar variety in the seed collection. |
Tomato
(20 seeds)
Old
Brooks. 75 days. This tomato
was our most productive the last three years. Healthy vines produced good quantities of beautiful,
blemish-free 6-10 ounce tomatoes. Old Brooks was bred to be acidic for canning, but they are great for
fresh eating, slicing onto burgers or BLTs, and cooking as well.
Rose
Quartz X Black Cherry. 70
days. A cross of two fine cherry tomatoes, RQXBC produces deep pink cherry tomatoes with a great taste and
large yields.
Pepper (20 seeds)
Joe
E. Parker Pepper. 95 days to
red. A very productive New Mexican chile, with mild
to medium heat. Used to make
traditional green or red chili sauce, but they are also great in American chilis and stews.
Chervena
Chushka 85 days. This pepper
is a Bulgarian heirloom is traditionally used for roasting. It's an Italian type pepper,
about 2" at the shoulder and 5" to 6" long, with somewhat thick flesh. The fruit ripens to a bright red
with a great sweet taste.
Cucumber
(20 seeds)
Homemade
Pickles Cucumber. 55 days.
This disease resistant variety has medium-length vines, and produces large quantities of
cucumbers that are perfect for your favorite pickle recipe.
Squash
(20 seeds)
Waltham
Butternut winter squash 90 days. The
bugs and heat destroyed our Burpee's Butterbush
crop this year, so we are offering the Waltham Butternut. WB is a
long-vined, productive variety that
produces great tasting 3-5 pound winter squash.
Costata
Romanesco Zucchini. 55 days.
This heirloom Italian variety has a great nutty taste and much better texture than many other summer
squash. Great for all traditional zucchini uses, it is also good for drying.
Beet (50 seeds)
Lutz
Green Leaf. 80 days. A
very old variety, that is now very hard to find. Lutz produces
tall, green leafs that are
excellent when small in salads, or cooked in soups like spinach.
The red beet roots get quite large,
without getting woody, and store well in the ground from late fall into
early winter.
Lettuce. (100 seeds)
Cracoviensis.
48 days. A unique variety with
savoyed green leaves with red tips and streaks of purple. It's a tall, fast growing lettuce with
buttery tasting leaves. Cracoviensis is also quite cold tolerant.
Collard
Greens (100 seeds)
Georgia.
70 days. A good producer of
mild-tasting leaves. Collards greens are a long-time summer vegetable that makes sense for the hot
summers that we have had in so many recent years. Easy-to-grow, heat and cold tolerant. Try
it in stir-fried Asian dishes, or in the traditional southern style with bacon and vinegar.
Basil
(100 seeds)
Sweet
Basil. 65 days. An
excellent basil variety, great for making pesto, and perfect for use with any tomato dish.
Dill (100 seeds)
Mammoth
Giant Dill. 50 leaf, 95
seed. This vigorous variety is great for making the
dill seeds much used in pickle
making.
| Additional Varieties $1.50 per packet. |
Beans.
(50 seeds)
Rattlesnake
65 days to snap, 100 plus to
dry. This name of this bean probably comes from the purple and cream colored mottling on the seed.
It also has striking purple stripes green pods, but these go away when bean is cooked. The
bean make for good eating in the fresh and dried stage. Plants are vigorous and grow
up to eight feet on a trellis. Be sure to keep them well watered through the dry summer months, and they
will come back in the fall with a late crop.
Rutabaga.
(100 seeds)
Joan.
90 - 100 days. The
rutabaga is a great, under-appreciated vegetable. We plant our rutabagas about the 1st of
August, and by late October the plants have produced tall, edible greens and large roots that poke up out of the
ground.
The
roots can be left in the ground for several months, and harvested as
needed. In the spring, any
un-harvested roots will send up new greens that can be harvested from
late March until early summer.
Our
variety Joan has sweet yellow flesh.
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