Mary Washington is America's most popular asparagus plant for a reason! Growing your own asparagus roots is fun and healthy. Mary Washington asparagus is a perennial vegetable that can be enjoyed for many years without replanting. Its rich green foliage remains attractive long after harvest and is known for its crisp delicious taste. Mary Washington has light cuttings in 2 years; with full cuttings thereafter.
A popular mix of our 3 favorite asparagus plants! Get a great mix of best asparagus for home gardens. These 1 year crowns are easy to plant and will produce asparagus for 10 plus years. This mix includes Mary Washington, Purple Passion and Jersey Giant. Mary Washington (10 Roots): This asparagus plant is a perennial vegetable just once and enjoy the succulent spears for years. This rich green foliage remains attractive long after harvest. Purple Passion(10 Roots): This asparagus plant is a perennial vegetable just once and enjoy the succulent spears for years. A very nutritious and tasty vegetable to have in your garden. Jersey Giant(10 Roots): Produces an abundance of flavorful and succulent asparagus spears. Can produce up to twice the yield of standard varieties. Jersey Giant grows well throughout the United States and resists fusarium wilt, crown rot and rust. Plant asparagus just once for several years of harvest.
The Jersey Knight asparagus is a very productive and great tasting plant. These roots grow tall stalks that can yield up to 3-4 times more asparagus than other varieties. Predominantly male, produces high yields, high disease tolerance and produces well in warmer climates. Jersey Knight produces the best spear quality of all the Jersey hybrids. Green spears with purple bracts.
Millennium asparagus, developed by at Univ. of Guelph, Canada, has become a very popular asparagus in Canada and United States. In our trial, Millennium has been productive, with high quality spears, tender, and has good flavor. Can be grown successfully in a wide range of soil types.
Certified - The Centennial Sweet Potato is probably the most widely known variety recognized in America! This variety has a carrot-like color on the inside with a copper to orange outside skin. Centennial is nicknamed "Baby Bakers" and is ready in about 90 days. The delicious Centennial has been used in many bake-off contests and is a favorite for making sweet potato fries!
Enjoy a mouth watering blend of the Sweet Potato Lover's mix! This mix contains all 3 of our most colorful and popular varieties that we carry! This mix contains Centennial, Purple Majesty and O'Henry. We may have to substitute a variety at the end of the season if supplies are low.
Certified - The Beauregard Sweet Potato is one of the most top yielding sweet potatoes available! Beauregard is such an outstanding release that has been accepted by farmers everywhere! Chances are that this sweet potato is the variety that is available in your local market. The red-orange outside color and orange inside color make it an attractive favorite. Beauregard is quick maturing with good shape.
The Sweet Siberian Watermelon is an unique apricot-colored flesh variety from Russia that has an outstanding juicy flavor. This watermelon is very sweet and sugary, giving it excellent eating qualities. This delicious favorite produces green oblong fruits that weigh 8-10 pounds. The Sweet Siberian is perfect for picnics and gatherings as it is a nice treat on a summer day!
Certified - The pure white inside of the White Yam has such an excellent, sweet yam flavor! This sweet potato is one of America's oldest varieties. 110 days to maturity.
The Hales Best Jumbo Melon is a local market and home grown favorite. This cantaloupe was developed by a Japanese market gardener in California and became widely popular because it combined excellent flavor with earliness. This beautiful oval melon has a deep green skin and golden netting with a very appealing salmon colored flesh. Hales Best Jumbo is an aromatic melon that is truly a sweet treat!
Take one bite and you will be convinced this is the most flavorful melon around! Sarah's Choice consistently wins taste tests here at Urban Farmer. Its flavor combined with its attractive oval fruits and ideal 3-lb. size, make it the best variety for retail sales and home growers. Bred by Dr. Brent Loy of the University of New Hampshire.
Schoon's Hardshell melon is a large heirloom favorite! This big melon can weigh 5-8 pounds. The slow to ripen thick gray-green skin has a highly flavored orange flesh. The flavor is very sweet and will maintain the taste and texture for long after being harvested. Certified Organic. Learn more about our organic seeds.
Certified - Purple Majesty sweet potatoes stand out with their deep purple skin and vibrant purple flesh, delivering exceptional nutrition packed with anthocyanins and antioxidants. Their rich color holds beautifully after cooking, making them a stunning addition to roasted vegetable blends—especially when paired with varieties like Murasaki and traditional orange sweet potatoes for a bold, colorful mix. With a tapered shape similar to classic orange types, Purple Majesty was developed by NC State University and has earned a reputation as one of the most productive and dependable purple varieties available, offering strong, consistent yields plant after plant.
The Lady Godiva is such an attractive pumpkin to add to any garden! The naked-seeded pumpkin seeds are hull-less making them perfect for roasting. The seeds also yield a very delicious and savory oil. These pretty compact pumpkins are yellow-orange with bright green stripes. Certified Organic. Learn more about our organic seeds.
Chicory has a long taproot that penetrates subsoils which makes it drought tolerant and allows it to make minerals more available to livestock. Rich in potassium, sulfur, calcium, zinc, sodium, manganese and iron. When managed properly, Chicory produces leafy growth which is higher in nutritive and mineral content than alfalfa and other cool season grasses. Used mainly in mixes with other pasture or cover crop seeds. Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) - Warm season, broadleaf - Perennial - Upright and spreading growth habit - Protein levels: 10-32% - Forms arbuscular mycorrhizal associations Uses: - Bees & Beneficial Insects - Chicken Forage - Deer Attractant - Forage
SPRING SHIPPING - The Standard Mix is a blend of popular delicious seed potatoes that are great for baking, boiling, frying, mashing and more! Each variety of potato in the Standard Mix has approximately 8 potato seed pieces per pound. Usually 3-5 potatoes that can be cut into more pieces to plant. Minimum of 4lbs (1lbs of each variety). Yukon Gold - Best seller and an excellent keeper! Attractive, smooth, thin yellow skin, shallow eyes, yellow flesh and uniform yields. If you like your fried potatoes golden brown, Yukon Gold will almost turn that color by themselves. However, with Yukon Gold, your mashed potatoes are golden and beautiful to both the eye and the taste. When first harvested, Yukon Gold shows unique pink eyes not seen in other yellow varieties. They are best when home grown! Russet Burbank - The Idaho Potato that Idaho built its reputation on! Also known as the "Idaho Netted Gem" or simply "The Russet". It is the most widely grown potato in the United States. We have eaten literally thousands of them baked, and the last one tasted just as good as the first. Dr. Burbank even admitted he was fortunate to have bred this cultivar. Red Pontiac Easy and adaptable red potato for home gardening. Most likely the easiest and most adaptable red potato there is to grow, not to mention the consistent flavor! Attractive deep red skin and eyes, white flesh. The tuber of choice for new potatoes or fresh eating. Red Pontiac - Comes from Florida in 1945 so it grows well in both the South and North regions. Kennebec Potato Seeds One of the most popular potatoes grown by home gardeners. High yields of large, white skin, white fleshed tubers that grow well under harsh conditions. Kennebecs - Superb boiled, mashed, fried, hashed or baked. Good jacket potato - smoother it in sour cream, cheese, chives and bacon. It's absolutely perfect. If it is late in the season and we are out of a variety above, we will substitute the next closest variety.
The Prescott Fond Blanc Melon is an old French heirloom variety that produces the most fragrant aroma when grown properly. This variety has a bumpy outer shell, making it look more squash than melon! However, its flesh is a dark salmon orange with a juicy sweet flavor. This variety prefers a hot, dry growing season and is best when picked slightly green and ripened indoors.
The Top Gun Watermelon produces more uniform shaped and better quality fruit than any other Crimson Sweets. This watermelon variety is an exceptionally delicious hybrid that has an improved flesh quality with a delicious bright red color. The Top Gun Watermelon has an excellent seedling vigor that is able to get the crop off to the right start, making it a top watermelon!
