We will officially open for the 2023 season on Tuesday, April 18th!

The 2023 Organic Vegetable Plant Collection (Ethics, Growers, Varieties)

*****IMPORTANT NOTE: The varieties listed below are what we start with, but we cannot guarantee that they will all be in stock when you come to the store. As some things do sell out. Thanks for understanding.

 PHILOSOPHY

At Agrarian, our goal is to have our vegetable plant offerings set us apart from other garden centers. We do this by curating a unique collection that includes seed sourced from some of our favorite small seed companies, including several varieties from our own in-house sister seed company, the Experimental Farm Network, to bring you a diverse, one-of-a-kind selection. This year seed came from our friends at Adaptive Seeds (SW Oregon) and Wild Garden Seeds (Philomath, OR).

Additionally, to highlight some of the wonderful connections that have happened as a result of having this garden center, ASG co-owner Dusty Hinz has been able to befriend local East Nokomis resident Jim Tjepkema because he came into the store our first year. Jim has been a long-time member of Seed Savers Exchange (based in Deocrah, IA), and maintains the seed for around 30 of his favorite vegetable varieties. Jim and Dusty are now working on some grow outs of Jim's varieties, with the intention of putting the seed into the EFN catalogue. This year 'Milka's Yugo Ox Heart' Tomato and 'Kostadinov's Striated' Hot Pepper will be available as plants at ASG. The seed from both of these came from Jim. Special thanks to Jim for his life-long commitment to seed preservation.

GROWER ETHICS

We then provide these seeds to our organic farmer friends, who produce all of these plants for us on contract, in their certified organic greenhouses. These are small-scale, family farm operations, and we are happy to put money in their pocket. This year we have two growers.

CALA FARM

We are happy to have Rodrigo Cala (of Cala Farm in Turtle Lake, WI) back growing all of our tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, and ground cherries again! His son Alexis and daughter Dayanne also help grow the plants.

Rodrigo is an integral part of the organic farming community in the greater Twin Cities foodshed, as both a farmer and organizer. He has been a long-time employee at the Latino Economic Development Center based in Saint Paul, MN, where he does outreach and consulting to Latin American farmers in the greater Midwest region. He is also beginning to grow seeds for the Experimental Farm Network. It's great to have him and his daughter and son growing plants for ASG!

TWIN ORGANICS

Twin brothers Andrew and Jacob Helling, of Northfield, MN, are some of the most talented organic vegetable production farmers that Dusty has met. In addition to selling organic produce, they also dabble in selling high quality organic vegetable and herb plant starts. This year they are growing all of ASG's lettuce, brassicas, peas, onions, squash, cucumber, and more. It is also great working with Twin Organics because we are able to offer organically grown herbs.

 

VEGETABLE VARIETIES

 

single plant in 3.5 inch pot:

 

Slicing Tomatoes
Green Zebra (indeterminate)
Legend Tomato (determinate)
KC-146 (semi-determinate)
Black Krim (indeterminate)
Brandywine (indeterminate)

Striped German (indeterminate)

Milka's Yugo Ox Heart (indeterminate)

Pisanello de Bruschetta (indeterminate)

Mountain Miracle XL Pink Tomato (indeterminate)

Smallish Tomatoes
Jagodka (determinate)

Valencia (indeterminate)

Exserted Orange (indeterminate, but smaller)

Cherry Tomatoes
Mexico Midget (indeterminate, red cherry)
Super Sweet 100 (indeterminate, red cherry)
Purple Bumble Bee (indeterminate)
Black Cherry (indeterminate)
Sungold (indeterminate)

Yellow Pear (indeterminate) 

Paste Tomatoes
Amish Paste (indeterminate)
Nistru (determinate)

 

Hot Peppers

Black Hungarian

Rodrigo's Cholula Jalapeno

Serrano

Orozco

Adaptive Early Thai

Kostadinov's Striated

Beaver Dam

Carolina Reaper (super mega hot)

Sweet Peppers
Doe Hill
Early Perfect Italian
King of the North
Greg's Hungarian
Banana 
Golden California Wonder
Early Long Orange Bell

Other Peppers
Alpine Poblano
Resilient Shishito

Tomatillo
Tamayo F1

Ground Cherry
Goldie

 

Winter Squash

New England Pie Pumpkin

Delicata Squash

Acorn Squash

Waltham Butternut

Musque de Provence Pumpkin

Summer Squash

Homs Kousa Summer Squash

Cocozelle Zucchini

Golden Zucchini

Eggplant

Nadia F1

Japanese F1

Sweet Potato

Beauregard

Okra

Midwest Ultracross

 

 

4-packs:

 

 

Sugar Snap Pea

Sugar Ann

Sweet Corn

Peaches and Cream

Cantaloupe

Sugar Cube

Watermelon

Early Moonbeam

Cucumber

Marketmore

Patio Snacker

Northern Pickling

Broccoli
Gypsy Brocoli
Purple Peacock

 

Cauliflower

White

Cheddar

Purple Graffiti

Collards

Champion

Brussel Sprouts

Gustus

Cabbage

Green Farao

Bok Choi

Bok Choi Grex

Rutabaga

Rutabangin'

Kohlrabi

White Vienna

Celery

Tango F1

Celeriac

Monarch

Bulbing Fennel

Preludio

Edamame

Tankuro 

Leek

King Richard

Green Onion

Nabechan F1

Onion

Red Wing

Sweet Candy

Shallot (2-3 plants per cell)
Creme Brulee F1

Beets

Golden

Red Detroit

Lettuce

Mirlo (green butterhead)

Alkindus (red butterhead)

Bergham's Green (green leaf lettuce)

New Red Fire (red leaf lettuce)

Coastal Star (romaine)

Frank Morton's Wild Garden Lettuce Mix (lot of diversity, mostly leaf lettuces that are cut-and-come-again)

Misc. Greens
Bloomsdale Spinach
Indigo F1 Raddichio
Astro Arugula

 

Bush Bean (green snap beans)

Provider

Pole Bean (green snap beans)

Fortex

 

 

 Single plant in 2.5 inch pot:

 

Kale
Homesteader's Kaleidoscopic Perennial Kale Grex

Winterbor F1

Willem's Blauwe Groninger

Dazzling Blue

Chard

Bright Lights

 

Organic Herbs from Twin Organics:

3.25" pots:
Basil
Basil Genovese
Sweet Thai
Lemon Basil
Amethyst (purple genovese)
Chives
Cilantro Slo Bolt (also available as 4-pack)
Dill Goldkrone
French Tarragon
Marjoram
Mint Chocolate
Mint Orange
Mint Peppermint
Mint Spearmint
Oregano Greek
Parsley Giant
Rosemary
Sage Common Ceres

Thyme Summer

Summer Savory

Wild Garden Fennel Mix (only available as 4-pack)