Well its time to get out there and garden!!  The world has really greened up lately and everything is blooming.  To me spring is such a celebration of life.  Its so nice to see the trees blooming and the bees out, and the baby ducks crossing the road!  I’m so glad that spring always comes around.  What a light at the end of winters tunnel.

At Griggs Farm we are really prepared for this years vegetable gardening season.  We have many varieties of tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.   I wanted to publish the list of our most popular veggies.  We do however have a lot more plants such as lettuce, broccoli and and so much more. I haven’t even started with the flowers.  In any case here is a sampling of our veggie varieties!

Eggplant

 

Galine –New last year! Very glossy black fruit with green calyx.
Classic Italian bell shape, 6″ x 3″. Early, firm fruit on strong plants.

 

Beatrice –classic shape violet color-

 

Epic –classic purple-tapered elegant shape. Sets well and early under various conditions for reliably good yields. Strong upright plant, usually around 36″.

 

Ghostbuster –white-Novel, shiny white skin. Tender skin and sweeter flesh than most.

 

Irene –classic purple-This traditional egg-shaped, purple black eggplant sets heavily,

Producing medium-sized firm fruit.

 

Mangan New last year! Tender, excellent quality Japanese type.
Glossy and very dark purple fruit, avg. 4″ x 1 1/2″. High yielding and early. Great for cooking and pickling. Purple calyx

 

Slim Purple Productive, early and beautiful long slender Asian eggplant with a light purple (not purple black) color. The stem/ calyx is purple with green shading.

 

Ichiban II

 

Dairyu (Japanese slender) Not only is it early, but it will produce over a long season. 7″ - 10″ long fruit is nearly black with matching sepals. Fruit shape is long and thin with a slight pot-belly.

 

Megal -Green calyx, long slender Italian type, 7 - 9″ long, 3″ diameter fruits.

 

Orient ExpressAttractive, slender, 8-10″, glossy black fruits in the long Oriental style. Ready up to 2 weeks before other early varieties, it features an ability to set fruit in cool weather as well as under heat stress.

Fairytale –Mini eggplant-

 

Hansel New! Solid purple mini eggplant.
2008 AAS winner! Start harvesting the abundant fruits when they are only 3-4″ long. The compact, 25-36″, plants produce the tender, dark purple fruit in clusters for easy harvesting. Hansel is non-bitter and perfect for grilling or slicing thin onto pizza

 

Gretel New! Solid white mini eggplant.
2009 AAS winner! Loads of mini, white-skinned eggplant drip from the branches of this compact plant. The tender, bitter-free fruits should be harvested beginning when they are 3-4″ long.

 

Raveena- New! Light green, cylindrical fruits.
Raveena is a heavy yielder on very vigorous plants. The fruit can be harvested anywhere from 3″ to 9″ and, as an added bonus, can be harvested in clusters.

 

Turkish Orange -A unique, brilliant orange fruit, sweet and fragrant when freshly cut. Best eaten once fruits are tennis ball-sized or when slightly orange with green striping. Also great when stuffed. Vigorous bush bears 15-25 fruits per plant.

Sweet Peppers 17

 

Bianca –white bell –

King Arthur –heat tolerant green bell-

Red night X3R

Early sensation –yellow bell-

Yellow Bell II

Yankee Bell

Mr. Bell

Lantern –Green Bell ripe to red-

Italia

Carmen

Round of Hungary -cheese pepper-

Super red pimento

Pimento Perfection

Topeporossa –Small red cherry cheese pepper-

Aruba –cubanelle type-

Cubanelle

Zavory –sweet chinenis-

 

Hot Peppers 20

 

Devil Serano

Portugal Hot

Jalapeno Tam Mild

Jalapeno el rey

Jalapano Santiago

Super Chili

Kung Pow (Thai Hot)

Cherry Bomb

KukuKlan Habanero

Habanero Red (Caribbean Red)

Jamaican Yellow (Scotch Bonnet)

Poblano Sanardo

Tiburon

Golden Heat –long thin cayenne-

Inferno -Hungarian wax, hot banana

Garden Salsa (Anaheim)

Mesilla (long fat Cayenne)

Black Pearl –ornamental hot-

Calico –ornamental hot-

Paprika Supreme

 

Total Peppers 37

Red Tomatoes 12

 

Mountain Fresh Plus

Mountain Spring

Sunbrite

JTO99197 Early Blight Resistant

SunCheif

Fabulous

Jetstar

Early Girl

New Girl

Big Beef

Beef Master

First Lady

 

Grape Tomatoes 7

Tami G

Sweet Olive

Juliet

Moby Grape

Golden Rave –yellow grape large-

Golden Sweet –yellow grape-

Golden Sunshine –yellow grape-

 

Cherry Tomatoes 5

Super Sweet 100

Sweet Baby Girl

Sun Cherry

Sun Gold

Amarillo –yellow cherry-

 

Plum Tomatoes 4

Mariana

San Marizano

Health kick

Speckled Roman

Heirloom Tomatoes 13

 

Big Rainbow

Black Prince

Piriform

Striped German

Green Zebra

Wonder light

Cherokee Purple

Rose

Brandywine

Pineapple

Persimmon

Grandmas Pick

Grandmas Garden

 

Yellow Tomato 1

 

Carolina Gold

 

 

Total Varieties 42

 

 

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