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Spring Greens

       Variety listing.  

We find many of our greens seeds at Johnny's Selected Seeds. (www.johnnyseeds.com).  They have dozens and dozens of lettuces, spicy greens, ethnic greens, herbs and salad goodies.  

Some of our favorties include red mustards, cress, arugula, beet greens, rhubarb chard, Kyona Mizuna and, of course, spinach.  

I know, I know, not a comprehensive listing with pictures.  But Johnny's Seeds already has that online.  Its worth a click to their site.  

 

 

Flower to Fruit Matching:

    Thanks to everyone who checked the answers here on our web site.  There were a couple tricks to the puzzle.  One is that two of the flower pictures both matched to only one of the fruit pictures (corn).  Another is that the squash and zuchinni flower pictures were interchangeable.

Green Beans
Broccoli flower - What we eat is an immature flower bud.  The actual flowers are bright yellow mustard-like flowers.  
The corn silk is the female part of the flower.  Each little strand of silk is attached to an individual kernel of corn (the seed).  
The corn tassle is the male (pollen) part of the corn flower.  It is wind-blown and the grains of pollen land on the thousands of silk (female flowers).  
Eggplant flower and fruit.  The eggplant, tomato, pepper and potato flowers are all very similar in their structure as they are all in the same plant family.  
Potato flower and tubers.  This was a tough one as the flowers in the picture are not fully open.  You can see, however, the long pistil in the middle of the petals.  
Summer Squash flower and fruit.  The flower is convoluted and will straighten out to pen into a wide (4-5") bright yellow flower.  These are another plant where the male and female flowers are borne separately (like corn).  The female flowers have a small node on the bottom which will become the squash.  
Yum.  

Tomatoes are wind pollinated.  The vibration from the wind or a large insect (bumble bees) will shake the pollen onto the stigma and pollinate the seeds.  The more seeds that are pollinated, the larger the fruit.  This holds true for most crops - a misshapen squash or apple can be due to under-pollinated seeds in one half of the fruit.  
Zucchini flower and fruit.  Again, these flowers look just like the summer squash and pumpkin flowers you may have in the garden.  
All pictures copyright 2003 - The Farm on Main St., LLC.    

 

Highlighted Varieties:

Cool Flower - Cosmos 'Yellow Garden'

Miscanthus ornamental grass

Million Belles & Scaevola Hanger closeup.

Cosmos Yellow Garden.  This one took a while to bloom, but it finally did its thing and it adds a unique color to the cosmos range.  It is a bipinnatus species (I think), rather than the more orange tones of the sulphureus species.  

We'll definitely have more next spring.  Grown from seed.  

Miscanthus closeMiscanthus grass closeup with the rest of the perennial garden in the background along with a quaint New England style house.  
Calibrachoa & Scaevola

Calibrachoa 'Million Belles Terra Cotta' and Scaevola 'New Wonder' combination hanger.  Oct. 2001.  Two days after a 26F night.  

Our Own TomatoesSpring Ledge Farm tomatoes - 2001 - Harvesting June 11th 2001.  Yum.

These tomatoes were seeded in February and planted in April.  We take great pains to create a perfect growing environment for the plants.  Temperatures are kept at 70F, humidity is kept low, weeds are eliminated, good bugs are released and pruning is a weekly chore.  The results speak for themselves.  Stop by the farmstand for your fill of these delicious tomatoes.  

Below are a few more pictures...

Argyranthemum - Marguerite A. Daisy

Work well in containers, in the garden beds and even in window boxes (the shorter varieties).  New breeding developments help make marguerites with brighter colors, longer lasting blooms, heat resistance and good plant habit (shape and size).  We grow the following varieties: 

   Also, check the Proven Winner website for some cultural information on their particular brand of marguerites.  

 

 

 

Big Tomato House April 6th, 2001

Our Own Tomatoes. 

We planted our big tomato house today (April 6th) with 750 'Buffalo' tomato plants.  This variety is well suited to greenhouse culture.  Our tomato greenhouse sits on top of compost-enriched field soil.  We expect the plants to look a little something like this in 2 months...

Big tomato - June 2000 
Nemesia.  A great cool weather crop.  We grow the Proven Winner varieties 'Blue Bird' and 'Innocence'.  Both have a very nice fragrance and small, snapdragon-like flowers held 4-5 inches above the compact plants.  

(more information can be found at the Proven Winners website)

'Blue Bird'

(pictures from Proven Winners)

 'Compact Innocence'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Vegetable Transplants

Full Listing of Vegetable Transplants    Tips for home gardeners

Spring Ledge grows many vegetable plants for sale to gardeners.  We rely on our own field trials to choose varieties that are well suited to New Hampshire summers. 

Since we grow our own transplants for use in our own fields here on the farm, we know what makes a good vegetable transplant.  Healthy roots, no growth retardant, and vigorous growth. 

We offer many of our lettuce and cole crop plants in 6-packs.  We offer successive plantings throughout the spring and summer so you can continue your harvest with fresh, young transplants. 

Our tomato and pepper plants are offered for sale in 4-packs and some larger sizes.  New this year is our mixed pack of heirloom tomatoes.  Also available this year is the 4-pack of standard and cherry tomato types, the garden pack including tomatoes, peppers, squash and cucumbers and many new varieties of vegetables. 

Our cucumber, squash and melon transplants are offered in 3 inch peat pots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






 

 

 

 
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