Get Ready!

Peppers and tomatoes getting ready for Farmer's Market, Downtown Sou. Pines, opens April 17.

HABANERO CHILE Capsicum chinense    Native to Central America's tropical lowlands, this world-famous, scalding hot pepper thrives where summers are long, hot, and humid. Lantern-shaped fruits ripen to a striking golden orange. Reported to be 1,000 times hotter than the jalapeno!

RING-O-FIRE Chile Capsicum annuum    While a little longer than the traditional cayenne fruit, this chile packs even more heat, is higher yileding and easier to pick. Great dried, fresh or strung up in a ristra.


RED MUSHROOM PEPPER Wrinkled, flying saucer-shaped fruit are unique-looking. They are flat, 2" across and a glowing red color when ripe. Very hot with a superb, fruity flavor and unique taste that keeps you wanting more. One of the prettier and tastier peppers you will grow, especially if you like them hot! Attractive plants set huge yields as long as you have lots of warm summer days.


CORBACI PEPPER A unique and wonderful sweet pepper. Very long, 10” fruit are curved and twisted, very slender, like a Turkish scimitar. This rare heirloom from Turkey has a very rich flavor, perfect for pickling or frying. One of the most productive of all peppers, out-yielding all others in tests by the U. of CA.


CORNO DI TORO PEPPER The traditional favorite in Italy. Long 8" tapered, bull-horn shaped golden-yellow peppers are sweet and spicy. They are great fresh or roasted. Large plants yield well. Among the best peppers you can grow and so delicious. Pure Italian seed.


PATIO RED MARCONI Ideal for growing in pots or raised beds. Compact plants are perfect for limited spaces. Ripe fruit are intense red and very sweet.

SWEET CHOCOLATE PEPPER Bred by Elwyn Meader and introduced by NH/AES in 1965. Ripens from green to chocolate on the outside and brick-red inside. Thick, sweet flesh.

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ROMA TOMATO Lycopersicon lycopersicum ‘Roma’ Small, plum-shaped bright red, thick-walled with meaty interior and few seeds. Excellent for paste, cause, canning or freezing whole.


SWEETIE Tomato     Cycopersicon lycopersicum ‘Sweetie’ Bright red over 2” diameter are unusually sweet with high vitamin C content. Staking recommended as the vine bears fruits in long clusters of 12 to 20 fruits. Great for snacking, salads and low sugar preserves.

CHEROKEE PURPLE Tomato     Lycopersicon esculentum   Traditional 8-10 oz.fruit.  Purplish-brown, flattened 10-12 oz. globes with outstanding flavor. Indeterminate yet short vines.

MARGLOBE Tomato   Developed in 1917 by Fred J. Pritchard of the United States Dept. of Agriculture by crossing together the tomato varieties Globe and Marvel. The Marglobe was formally released to the public in 1925 and was one of the first tomato varieties resistant to both Verticulum and Fusarium Wilts. As time went on, Marglobe became a popular tomato variety with tomato canners and was the parent of many new varieties, most notably the famous Rutgers Tomato.  It produces a large crop of smooth, solid fleshed red tomatoes of approximately 6 to 7 ounces in weight, crack-resistant and excellent for canning. The vine is determinate, producing a large crop of tomatoes at one time.


AMISH PASTE TOMATO Many seeds savers believe this is the ultimate paste tomato. Giant, blocky Roma-type tomatoes have delicious red flesh perfect for paste and canning. World class flavor and comes from an Amish community in Wisconsin.

COUR DI BUE TOMATO   This Oxheart type Italian heirloom, a favorite in Italy for many years. Beautiful 12 oz. fruit have a delicious sweet taste, similar to the shape of a heart, great for fresh eating or cooking. Large vigorous vines. Hard to find.

FOX CHERRY TOMATO Delicious large, red heirloom cherry tomatoes, one of the best-tasting large cherries around. The vining plants are very reliable; even in years when the wilt kills about everything else, these seem to do great. The fruit weigh about 1 oz each, perfect for salads.


CHILE VERDE TOMATO A far-out and really cool tomato developed by Tom Wagner, who also bred the ‘Green Zebra,’ this one is especially fascinating, with its amazing, pointed pepper shape and the mellow green skin, nearly like a green chili. The flavor is also good, strong and earthy, perfect for canning or for making green ketchup! One of the few green paste tomatoes and, like most paste types, this one has few seeds. Plants are vigorous with thick stems and large leaves.

ISIS CANDY CHERRY    (Indeterminate) Delightful round one-inch fruits may vary in shades and blush patterns of reds to yellows, usually with golden flesh. Typically carry an intriguing "cat's eye" or star in yellow on the blossom end. The flavor is outstanding, sweet and fruity. Kids adore them!

FURRY YELLOW HOG TOMATO    Small bright lemon-yellow fruits occasionally reach 8 oz. Pleasant citrusy flavor, very full-flavored and more acid than most yellows. Fruits are slightly fuzzy like peach-type tomatoes. Plants bear over a long season.

LOLLIPOP CHERRY TOMATO  Delicious, light yellow translucent cherries. The flavor of these is really good--both sweet and fruity. Plants set good yields. A real winner!


BLACK FROM TULA TOMATO  A unique, large, dark tomato exhibiting a rich, deep purplish-brown color. Some seed savers say it is the best tasting of all the dark tomatoes. Very rich, old-fashioned flavor, sweet and spicy. Rare Russian heirloom.

ARKANSAS TRAVELER   Medium-size pink tomato, smooth and a beautiful rose color. Excellent heirloom from Arkansas, tolerant to heat and humidity, crack and disease resistant. Good flavor, a Hillbilly favorite.

SUNGOLD SELECT II This is a selection from the regular Sungold tomato, sent to us by Reinhard Kraft of Germany. This is one of the tastiest orange cherry tomatoes.

SAN MARZANO PASTE   From Italy. Compact and prolific producer of bright-red, slim, 2-3 inch, plum-type, fruit over a long season. A paste tomato with pointy end, heavy walls and little juice, so it's great for tomato sauce. Crack resistant. Better tasting than Roma.

BURBANK RED SLICING   Plant produces good yields of medium size red tomatoes, very flavorful and turning red when mature. Plant does well in dry regions and does not require trellising. Heirloom variety developed by Luther Burbank in 1915.

PRIZE OF THE TRIALS   Best overall cherry tomato for flavor, yield, and crack resistance. Productive vines bear orange, apricot-sized fruits that thrive in hot dry climates.