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Dark Galaxy Tomato
Bears 2-4 ounce fruits that are usually flattened, with red and orange stripes covered in random golden speckles, layered by deep blue. Delicious sweet flavor
Fargo Yellow Pear Tomato
Easy to grow everywhere, fresh banana peppers add a zing to any salad. Banana peppers are not a hot as a serrano or jalapeno peppers, fresh and sliced thinly, expect an extra kick of flavor in modest amounts.
Tiny Tim Tomato
This heirloom miniature yields masses of sweet/tart scarlet miniature cherry tomatoes about 2cm (1") in diameter. A perfect salad or snacking tomato!
Mountain Gold Tomato
This tomato bearing large fruits that ripen to a pretty golden-yellow. The firm fruits have a mild, sweet flavor with a hint of acid and hold up in quality well after picking.
Koralik Cherry Tomato
These 1" bright, round, red tomatoes have a pronounced sweetness and complementary mild tartness. A wonderfully delicious snacking tomato that is a great choice for adding to tomato salads or culinary creations.
Mexico Midget Tomato
Mexico Midget is the size of a pea - tiny tomatoes, big flavor. Pop one in your mouth and tomato taste explodes! They're great sprinkled on salads, great for nibbling.
Apple Pepper
A delicious sweet pepper, having a conical but rounded shape. Fruits grow up to 4" long and have a juicy, sweet flavor.
Aji Dulce Puerto Rico Pepper
The pods have a full, fruity aroma and crunchy texture with sweet flavor. Some fruits can have occasional mild traces of heat.
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Waldmann's Lettuce
Waldmann’s is a pre-1880 heirloom. Produces large, slightly savoyed, green leaves forming loose, open heads with uniform stands, and are crispy, tender and tasty.
Magenta Magic Orach
Orach has a mild chard-like flavor but tastes saltier than most greens as the minerals from the soil are stored in the plant’s leaves. Orach leaves are used cold or cooked, and can be used like spinach or chard, or stuffed like cabbage leaves.
Water Cress
A tasty salad green and filled with vitamins too! Low growing annual to a few inches high. Leaves are harvested for fresh use and don't last long when cut.
Apollo Arugula
Delicious rounded leaves with a great flavor that lacks bitterness. Leaves are also high in vitamin C.
King Tut Grass Pea
Purple flowers give way to tasty, fat purple pods that make a delicious soup pea, or picked young as a purple snow pea.
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Wild Chamomile
Raw flowers can be eaten fresh in salads. Steep fresh or dried flowers for a fragrant herbal tea. Dried flowers can also be used as an insect repellent.
Purple Ruffles Basil
Scent and flavor are also unique, with licorice and cinnamon overtones.
Peruvian Basil
Also known as Peruvian Mint. When brewed into tea, it reduces cold symptoms and improve the health of the respiratory tract. In the Andes, black mint is used to flavor stews, sauces, and soups. This herb has notes of mint, basil, lime, and tarragon in its tang.
Oregano
Valued for its highly aromatic leaves that are a staple in many types of cooking. Leaves are slightly bitter, pungent flavor. This pungent flavor is composed of earthy/musty, green, hay and minty notes. The spice imparts a slightly astringent mouthfeel.
Chives
Similar in taste to raw onions, although milder. Great raw, or add to a sauce, or garnish a dish. They add a "pop" of flavor to whatever you're eating. Chives don't have as pungent an aftertaste as an onion and won't linger in the mouth unless you eat a whole lot of them.
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Mouse Melon - Mexican Sour Gherkin
Mouse Melon is a tiny cucumber that looks like a doll-sized watermelon. A long-lost heirloom, grown by the Incas only recently rediscovered. They have a sweet cucumber flavor with a tangy, citrus twist. Use for crunchy snacks, adding color and zip to salads, and pickling.
Minnesota Midget Melon
Super sweet fruits the size of a softball have thick golden flesh that's tasty right down to the rind. The fruits mature in just 60-75 days and pretty much fall off the vine when they're ripe. No guessing here.
Miniature White Heirloom Cucumber
As tasty as they are cute. The lightly spined fruit deliver a sweet snap. They're perfect in salads and make wonderful pickles. They have thin skin, sweet crunchy flesh. and no bitterness, No need to peel.
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Lacewing
"APHID LION" - $27.89 1000 ct Green Lacewing Egg Pack
After a few days, the eggs hatch and tiny larvae emerge which are also known as"aphid lions" because of their voracious appetite. There is no other better predator known to consume vast quantities of eggs and the soft bodies of aphids, mealy-bugs, spider mites, leafhopper nymphs, caterpillar eggs, scales, thrips, and white-flies. The larvae attack the eggs of most pests and, if the bodies are not to hard and fast moving, will attack the adult pest stage as well.
Use lacewing eggs/larvae for greenhouses and gardens. Larvae will only feed for 1-3 weeks before they become adults (eating only nectar and honeydew). Use approximately 10 lacewing eggs/larvae per plant or 1000 eggs per 200 square feet. After a few days, the eggs hatch and tiny larvae emerge. The larvae are gray-brown in color and newly hatch are very tiny. Similar in appearance to an alligator with pincers, the lacewing larvae vigorously attacks its prey, injects a paralyzing venom, and draws out the body fluids of its helpless victim. Depending on climate conditions, the adults will live for about four to six weeks, feeding only on nectar, pollen and honeydew. If these food sources are not avalable, it will simply leave the area and lay its eggs elsewhere.
Green lacewing eggs are shipped in bran or rice hulls and packed with moth eggs for food. The best time to release is early morning or later afternoon. Never release in the heat of the day. For best results, immediate use is advised however, when release is inconvenient, they can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 48 hours. Warmer temperatures will speed up their emergence and newly hatched lacewing larvae are hungry and will cannibalize each other if they are not released quickly.
LadyBugs
"The Pest Police" - 1,000 Ladybugs $31.76
Ladybugs will feed on other pests, but are best known to eliminate aphid populations. They search all day from dawn to dusk for food. Ladybugs are shipped in the adult stage and is one of the most effective economically important insect predator known. Ordering fresh healthy ladybugs and have them delivered directly to you is best. Extensive travel stresses out the ladybugs, robbing them of their vigor, aphid eating and reproduction capabilities. The larvae consume up to 400 aphids at a rate of 50-60 aphids a day in later stages. If food supplies are short they will cannibalize each other. Larvae live for three weeks before pupating. After 2-5 days adults emerge and continue to feed. Pollen and nectar are necessary for maturation of newly emerged lady bug adults, particularly before a winter hibernation season. They are attracted to specific types of plants. The most popular ones have umbrella shaped flowers such as fennel, dill, cilantro, caraway, angelica, tansy, wild carrot & yarrow. Other plants that also attract ladybugs include cosmos (especially the white ones), coreopsis, and scented geraniums, dandelions. Adults can survive on pollen and nectar for limited periods, but a supply of aphids or other prey is necessary for egg production. If aphids are scarce, lady beetle adults and larvae may feed on the eggs of moths and beetles, and mites, thrips, and other small insects, as well as pollen and nectar. After you receive your ladybugs, put the bag in a cool place (refrigerator) until late in the day or early morning. Ladybugs will leave if they don't like their new home. Do not release the ladybugs during the heat of the day or while the sun is shining. They will not fly at night and need a settling down period after being handled. When releasing, gently scatter or spread them out so each ladybug can find food immediately. Sprinkle or irrigate the area before releasing, so the ladybugs will have a drink of water after their journey.
Green Praying Mantid
"The Lovable Killer" - $ 18.65 1 egg case (200 babies)
This adored insect, praying mantis is a general predator of most pest insects, mites, eggs, or any insect in reach. Each egg case contains approximately 200 baby mantids. Use 3 cases per 5,000 square feet or 10-100 cases per year per acre. they are attracted to twigs, leaves, fences, and other vegetation. Praying mantis egg cases may also be placed in the crotch of a bush or tree. Do not place on ground, as they become easy prey for ants. Releases can begin after the last frost and continue through summer. The Praying mantis is a most interesting and enjoyable beneficial insect to have around the garden and farm. It is the only known insect that can turn its head and look over its shoulder. Mantis lie in wait for their food and when close enough, snap it up with a lightning movement of their strong forelegs. Mantis have enormous appetites, eating various aphids, leafhoppers, mosquitoes, caterpillars and other soft-bodied insects when young. Later they will eat larger insects, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, and other pest insects. These ferocious-looking praying mantises actually make great pets. Some will even eat raw meat and insects from your fingers. With plenty to eat they usually will not stray far. If handled properly they don't bite.
Red Worms for Composting
"Employee of the Year, Every Year" - $26.99 for 300
Use Red Wigglers to convert organic matter into high quality humus, providing your garden with earthworm castings, a complete natural fertilizer. Worm castings, are very rich in nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. Red wiggler worms can process large amounts of organic matter and, under ideal conditions, can eat their body weight each day. They also reproduce rapidly, and are very tolerant of variations in growing conditions. Item quantities are a close approximate and will arrive in various stages of growth. Release 5-10 worms per sq. ft. Red Wigglers are epigamic earthworms, meaning they live on the soil surface. These Red worms are non-burrowing and non-migratory. Red Wigglers live in the top 12 inches of the earth’s surface. Red worms feed on decaying organic matter.
Mosquito Dunks
Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, or B.t.i. $12.69 for 2
The best way to get rid of mosquitoes is to prevent them from ever being alive. Just put this small round disk in water, they float and dissolve. The active ingredient, Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, is deadly for mosquito larvae. Mosquito larvae will feed on them and will be killed continuously. You will then be rid of biting adult mosquitoes for the entire season. Mosquito Dunks are only harmful to mosquitoes and their larvae . The impact on the broader food chain is minimal and deemed safe. The CDC has found that Bti, an active ingredient in Dunks, are not harmful for humans, animals, or honeybees. The World Health Organization cites that the bacterium used in Dunks is generally regarded as safe in natural applications as well as in drinking water. With that said, we are not pathologists or biologists so cannot be the authority, but this product sure seems safe as advertised. As long as he dunks remain in contact with the water, they should work as directed by the manufacturer. If you need to control populations of adult mosquitoes, it is too late for these products. Mosquito Dunks can be used in all types of standing water sites where mosquito larvae grow before becoming adults. Alternate wetting and drying will not reduce their effectiveness. To prevent dunks from being washed away, anchor them using a string tied through the center hole, or they can be staked in place. Each mosquito dunk treats 100 sq.ft of water surface regardless of depth. Mosquito dunks, which dry out will start working again when they become wet. Unused dunks will remain active indefinitely.
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