2025 Garden Plants!

Happy garden harvest!

Here is our list of bedding plants we'll be growing this year, so you can plan them into your gardens!! Select items will be available at the farm store come early spring, the majority will be available at the Greenhouse at Total Landscape Supply, in Madelia and a NEW site at Bluestem Gardenworks, Comfrey!!

All of our garden plants are Certified Organic!

Brooke with tomato

Some cool season crops you can plant early...

-Cabbage, Copenhagen
-Kohlrabi, Terek
-Cauliflower, Snow Crown
-Broccoli, DeCicco (side-shooting type for continual harvest)

Ever Popular...

-Celery, Ventura (veeery popular, you may become addicted to "real" MN grown celery)

-Jalapeno, Early 

Amish Paste

A number of delicious heirloom tomatoes great for fresh eating and processing...
-Amish Paste
-German Johnson (dusky pink, my favorite for BLTs) 
-Sun Gold, cherry type (very prolific)
-Valencia (yellow, low-acid)
-Weavers Black Brandywine (the BEST black tomato I've grown, 2nd fav for BLTs)
-Brandywine
-San Marzano, paste type

Cooling cucumbers!
-M-76 (classic green slicer)
-Cool Customer, Pickler
-Silver Slicer (white, my favorite for flavor)

NEW

-Cocozelle, Zucchini

-Block Party, Butternut Squash *farm only

-Thelma Sanders, Acorn Squash *farm only

Follow along on social media as spring approaches! Things will pop with this rain! Apricots are blooming! 

There will likely be other plants available at the farm not listed here, depending on what strikes me, but usually some basil, kale, sweet peppers and other "extras" from my home garden!

Ready to process tomatoes!

Pop Up Market April 19!

 

Popping up in New Ulm this Saturday at The 507 Outskirt, 2232 S Broadway St, New Ulm.

Find out about our Organic garden transplants, applesauce and jams made with Organic ingredients, herbal wellness and how we can keep you in Certified Organic fruit throughout the year!!

See you 9-Noon along with all these vendors

Schaefer Sweets & Treats
Mrs. B's Bakery
Cravings Corner
Ribizli Seed Co.
Alternative Roots Farm
Gertzski Bees
Flour Cottage
E5 Livestock

Let's Talk Celery!

If you have tried Minnesota grown celery you know that the store bought stuff just does not compare. Homegrown/Minnesota grown celery is REAL celery. Full flavored!!

Grown in the garden it’s pretty darn easy to grow, takes up little space and is a great selection, because of its flexibility to cut and come and again.

BONUS it’s super easy to preserve!!

In the garden it needs 12” spacing, a good layer of compost and heavy mulch. It’s a heavy feeder and drinker, so don’t forget to water it well! It can take a small amount of shade.

Harvest by pulling off the largest outside stems as needed, or cut all at once ABOVE the growing point, and it will keep giving.

Don’t forget to use the leaves!!!

Plant as apple blossoms begin falling. It can take a light frost in the fall, but it doesn’t like the chill upon planting. I plant 10-12, to preserve a lot for processing and for a few sales; 2-4 plants should suffice for most.

Preserve stalks and leaves by dehydrating or - my favorite way - by making ice cubes. Chop the stems and leaves, place in ice cube trays and top with water. Freeze. Place in freezer bags or vacuum seal. I like to put 2-3 gallon baggies away for the winter! I dry extra leaves for back up and seasoning.

P.S. The plant can also be dug in the fall and brought into a cold space for growing all winter!! Place in a pot, keep it from freezing and it may continue to give!!

Are you adding celery to your garden?!

Find our Organic celery plants at the farm Total Landscape Supply (Madelia) and Bluestem Garden Works (Comfrey)!