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PLANT STARTS

We sell naturally-grown transplants each spring for your herb, flower or vegetable garden. We offer many heirloom varieties you won't find at a garden center or grocery store. We specialize in many unusual varieties oftomato plants (red, pink, orange, purple, black; from cherry size up to two-pounders!). We also offer edible flowers, plus over 25 species of culinary and medicinal herbs. All started from seed and raised using natural methods and no chemicals here on the farm in our greenhouse.

Where to find our plant starts:
Direct from Terrapin Hill Farm -just call ahead to make sure we're here, and you can come pick up fresh-picked produce and visit our greenhouse to pick out the plants you need for your own garden.
The Nutrition Center II in Danville. (next to Sears on 4th street) They carry our Salad Mix and Spinach in stock (winter and spring only), plus selected varieties of plants. Other plants they don't carry can be ordered through them and we'll deliver your order to the store.
Good Foods Market and Cafe, Southland Drive, Lexington. Visit the Market for our Salad Mix, when in season, and a complete line of our vegetable, flower and herb plants.
Full Circle Market, Winchester. Offering a selection of our vegetable and herb plants, or you can pre-order and have them delivered to the store.
Marksbury Farm Market, Lancaster. They also sell our Salad Mix and an amazing array of other local farm products.

2011 Events where we'll be selling plant starts:
April 30:  Garrard County Earth Day (Garrard Co. Fairgrounds)
May 14: 3rd Annual Herb & Craft Fair (Garrard Co. Extension Office)
May 21:  The Kentucky Herb Festival (Franklin Co. Fairgrounds)

Lettuce Varieties: 

Romaine 
"Tropicana" Green Leaf
"New Red Fire" Red leaf


   Tomato Varieties:

 Bellstar Roma  Hybrid  Plum-size Italian sauce or paste tomatoes.
 Big Beef  Hybrid  Large, mostly blemish-free red fruit.  Full flavor, ripen early,
 disease tolerant.
 Black prince  Heirloom  Mahogany brown shoulders. Rich, fruity flavor.
 Brandywine  Heirloom  The best-tasting tomato.  Large fruit, often over 1 lb.;
 have deep pink skin and smooth red flesh.
 Cherokee Purple  Heirloom  Medium-large, dusky pink skin.  Purple-brown-green flesh,
 excellentl flavor.
 Debarao  Heirloom  Red plum type, heavy-bearing, smooth and firm.
 Green Zebra  Non-hybrid  Tangy salad tomato.  Green fruit with darker green/yellow stripes.
 Moskvich  Heirloom  Extra-early, deep red; rich taste
 Polbig  Hybrid  Very early harvest of medium-sized, red fruits.
 *Compact plants  good for growing in containers.
 Striped German  Heirloom  Medium-large red and yellow striped; complex fruity flavor
 Valencia  Heirloom  Orange fruits will full tomato flavor. Midseason, medium-large.
 Sun Cherry  Hybrid  Very sweet, early, red cherry tomatoes.
 Sun Gold   Hybrid  Exceptionally sweet, orange cherry tomatoes.
 Yellow Pear  Heirloom  Small, lemon-yellow, pear-shaped fruits
 Yellow Brandywine  Heirloom  Orange version of Brandywine; very large fruit.

 

Pepper Varieties: 


 Ace  green-ripens-to-red bell
 Islander  purple bell
 Flavorburst  green-ripens-to-yellow bell
 Bianca

 white-ripens-to-red bell

 Sweet Chocolate  chocolate-brown bell with red flesh 
 Jalapeno  
      

Eggplant Varieties:

 Galine  large, purple; similar to Black Bell
 Dancer  med-size deep pink fruits
 Orient Express  dark purple, long Oriental style

     

Other Vegetables, etc.
        
"Diva" cucumbers: seedless, burpless with thin skin
         "Sugar Baby" watermelon: smaller sized, red interior
          Strawberry plants

 

Annual Herbs
  • basils: 
    • genovese basil
    • lemon basil*
    • red rubin basil
  • arugula
  • borage
  • chamomile
  • cilantro
  • cutting celery
  • dill
  • sweet marjoram
  • curled parsley
  • italian flat parsley
  • summer savory

Perennial Herbs

  • bee balm (wild bergamot)
  • catmint
  • catnip
  • garlic chives
  • lavender
  • lovage
  • mountain mint
  • oregano, greek
  • rosemary
  • sage, common
  • stevia
  • thyme, summer
  • thyme, orange

Flowers:  

  • bachelor's button*
  • bee balm (wild bergamot)
  • borage
  • calendula
  • dwarf sunflower
  • hollyhock*
  • marigold, lemon gem
  • ornamental pepper, pretty in purple*

*heirloom varieties


2011 Prices and Availability:

Vegetable 4" pots
( Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplant, etc)
$2.50/4" pot April-July
Annual Herbs $2.50/4" pot April-July
Perennial Herbs $3.00/4" pot May-July
Flowers $2.50/4" pot April-July

 

  
 

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