2025 Starter Plant List Now Available
It’s Time to Pre-Order Seedlings!
$5.55/ 4” pot
Download the list HERE
Please Pre-Order by March 1. You can either stop into the shop with your list, or email it to us.
No need to pay in advance, but if you don’t receive confirmation by email, please call to make sure we have received the order. 845 482 3333.
Plants will be available for pickup around Memorial Day weekend, depending on the weather.
We change tomato varieties a bit each year. Determinate varieties typically stop growing after they reach a certain height. They also tend to produce most of their fruit at about the same time. Indeterminate varieties, on the other hand, tend to grow and produce fruit throughout the season. All of the tomatoes listed here are indeterminate unless specifically marked otherwise.
TOMATOES
Cherry Tomatoes
Black cherry: small red hybrid tomatoes with a bit of purple
Black Strawberry: cherry-sized hybrid fruit with a lot of purple
Chocolate Cherry: large heirloom cherry with lots of chocolate coloring and very good flavor
Chocolate pear: similar to chocolate cherry but pear-shaped and a hybrid
Gardener’s Delight: one of the larger cherries, and an heirloom
Jasper: one of the smaller cherry tomatoes
Sun Gold: A favorite of gardeners, this hybrid is orange or gold, ripens early and is very sweet
Super Sweet 100: small sweet and prolific hybrid
Yellow Pear: bright yellow and pear-shaped heirloom tomato
Spoon: the very smallest cherry tomato but on big plants
Grape Tomatoes
Brad’s Atomic: Multi-colored hybrid grape tomatoes that are fun to grow
Determinate Tomatoes:
Celebrity: Hybrid, a long-time favorite with home gardeners, mid-sized and red.
Galahad: a hybrid that is very early and productive
Purple Reign: a purple open-pollinated newcomer with good flavor.
Rutgers: An heirloom that is red and productive
Skyway: Hybrid plant produces 8-to-12-ounce fruit, with good disease resistance.
Sub Arctic: Early and fairly productive
Small Indeterminate Tomatoes:
Black Vernissage: a 2- or 3-ounce heirloom tomato with very good flavor. Like most of the so-called black tomatoes, these tend to be less resistant to diseases than the red and yellow varieties
Jaune Flamme: A prolific French heirloom that has been a favorite of Cutting Garden customers.
Piglet Willey: an heirloom variety, about three inches with red and mahogany coloring.
Purple Russian: an open-pollinated variety about three inches long with deep purple coloring.
Medium Indeterminate Tomatoes
Damsel: A pink hybrid tomato with an heirloom taste that was bred to be disease resistant
Dwarf Metallica: Four to eight ounces. Dwarf Varieties grow to under five feet tall. The Dwarf Tomato Project says the plant produces “globe- shaped purple tomatoes with distinct green stripes.”
Chocolate Champion: Described by the Dwarf Tomato Project says the plant, “produces oblate medium to medium large fruit that ripen to a brick red chocolate hue … and the variety is quite prolific.”
Early Girl: A long-time gardener favorite, this hybrid tomato ripens earlier than many others.
Estiva: A plant that reliably produces seven-to-nine-ounce red fruit
Hot Streak: Red with yellow stripes with good flavor and disease resistance
Martha Washington: Another pink hybrid bred for flavor and sturdiness.
Moscvich: Early red heirloom that is cold tolerant with good flavor
Purple Heart: This hybrid produces heart-shaped, deep purple fruit
Large Indeterminate Tomatoes
Beefsteak classic: Meaty heirloom fruits reach one to two pounds.
Big Beef: one of the most reliable hybrid producers
Big Zac: An heirloom that can produce tomatoes of more than two pounds each.
Black Krim is a Russian heirloom with a flavor that’s been described as smokey
Brandywine: an open-pollinated variety that has been around for generations
Carolina Gold: A large, yellow hybrid tomato with a great flavor
Costoluto Genevese: A large, ribbed, red, heirloom tomato that dates back about 200 years,
Dad’s Sunset: Large yellow/orange hybrid, sometimes streaked with red, and very mild flavor.
German Johnson: Large pink heirloom, produces a prolific amount of fruit
German Pink: This heirloom originated in Bavaria and has been on the U.S. since 1883.
Giant Belgium: Another large, pink, heirloom, this one from Belgium.
Kellogg’s Breakfast: This large, yellow, heirloom was bred in Michigan, and like all yellow tomatoes, has a milder flavor than red ones.
Martha Washington: A slightly purple dependable hybrid.
Mortgage Lifter: An old heirloom variety, the man who developed this tomato, according to gardening lore, sold enough of the plants to pay off the mortgage on his home.
Paul Robeson: A large heirloom variety that is red with lots of purple throughout and a lot of deep flavor
Pineapple: A large, yellow heirloom tomato shot through with red coloring. The flavor is similar to Striped German and is among the best in the garden.
Pink Brandywine: Heirloom variety of an old favorite
Purple Prudens: A pink/purple heirloom that tolerates a variety of conditions.
Rebekah Allen: Big, red, tasty heirloom slicer
Striped German: A large, yellow heirloom tomato shot through with red coloring. The flavor is similar to Pineapple and is among the best in the garden.
Paste Tomatoes
Amish Paste: Large paste/sauce tomato
Gilbertie Paste: The largest paste/sauce tomato
Hog Heart: A large red bull-shaped fruit.
Purple Heart: A heart-shaped tomato with a meaty texture.
San Marzano: smaller, most popular paste/sauce tomato
PEPPERS
Sweet Peppers
Carmen: Hybrid bull-type sweet red pepper
Cubanelle: Heirloom, normally used when green, can have mild heat, often used in cooking
Nardello: slim, sweet heirloom peppers about six inches long
Pablano: Open pollinated, heart-shaped fruit with a small bit of heat
Red Roaster: Hybrid red bell pepper
Shishito: Open-pollinated, small, wrinkled fruit with a bit of heat
Staddon’s Select: Open-pollinated bell pepper that ripens before most other red peppers
Sweet Banana: Six-inch peppers normally picked early when yellow, often pickled, and used in sandwiches
Hot peppers
Carolina Reapers, said to be the hottest pepper available, use caution when handling
Cayenne, large: six-inch red cayenne peppers, hot
Ghost peppers: a Bhutanese pepper with extreme heat
Habanero: small orange very hot peppers also called Scotch Bonnets
Jalapeno: normally harvested when green, hot but not as fiery as others
Lemon drop: bright yellow when ripe, two-inch hot peppers
OTHER SELECTED PLANTS
Ground Cherries: Sweet marble-sized fruit that grows on plants that need about as much space as a tomato. When the fruit are ripe, they fall off the plant and are protected by a thin husk.
CUCUMBERS
Diva: A sweet fruit when harvested at six to eight inches, with very few seeds.
County Fair: A productive pickling type that can also be sliced fresh for salads and so on.
Parisian Gherkins: A pickling cuke that can be harvested when the fruits are very tiny, or three to four inches.
FRUIT
$5.55 4” pot
Strawberry, Everbearing Elan – Sweet, with a classic flavor, this will produce throughout the season
HERBS
$5.00 4” pot
Basil Genovese – the classic minty sweet basil
Lavender Munstead – English lavender, drought tolerant and compact
Parsley, Italian Dark Green – the best flavor
FLOWERING PLANT
$5.00 4” pot
Begonia Benariensis Bronze leaf red- hybrid wax begonia with a compact, bushy tender perennial. This variety has red flowers with bronze leaves