Exploring meaning and change through art

Jeffersonville artists Kevin Gref and Lucy Sardonia are featured in a holiday exhibit opening Saturday, November 26^th at Domesticities at 3 pm. 

Kevin’s work in painted wood and mixed media is a complex adventure in shape and color which visually interprets words and their meaning.  Lucy works with a variety of materials as she explores and reimagines everyday scenes from her childhood in the Caribbean and our local landscapes.  The subtlety of color in Kevin’s work is complemented by the colorful portrayals of strength in nature and humans that Lucy has created.

 Born in the Dominican Republic, Lucy Sardonia immigrated to the US with her family at a young age. While in high school her talent was recognized by her art instructor who trained and encouraged her. Although she took incidental courses in art and fashion at Syracuse University she is primarily self-taught.

Kevin Gref received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree FA from the University of Buffalo, specializing in Sculpting.  After retiring from a career as a carpenter, he returned to his artwork with the opening of his studio Jeffersonville Steamworks in 2013 where he began to experiment with steam-bent white oak, cherry, and other hardwoods.  His work has appeared in group shows at the DVAA, Catskill Art Society as well as the Broadway production of Harold and Maude. Gref is presently working out of the studios of the late abstract painters Elizabeth Harms and Douglas Craft in the village of Jeffersonville.   The show can be seen through December 30^th.

It’s Time to Pre-Order Seedlings!

Need Seedlings?  We’ll start them for you.
$4.99/ 4” pot
Updated for 2022

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 a confirmation by email, please call to make sure we received the order.  Plants will be available for pickup around Memorial Day weekend, depending on the temperatures.
We will also have a limited number of herbs and annuals available.

 Tomatoes

Generally, hybrid tomatoes are more prolific and uniform than heirloom varieties, and hybrids usually have more resistance to disease, but many people say heirlooms taste a little better.  We start our tomatoes in mid-March, and grow them on in 4-inch pots. Last year we put them in the ground about June 1, and our first ripe tomatoes came in the last week of July.  All of these varieties are indeterminate unless noted.

Large Tomatoes:

Brandywine, Heirloom, red/pink

Rose, Heirloom

Mortgage Lifter, pink heirloom

Big Beef, Hybrid, red

Beefsteak, Hybrid, red

Striped German, Heirloom, yellow/red stripes

Old German

Pineapple

Pruden’s Purple

Carolina Gold, Yellow Hybrid

 

Medium-sized tomatoes

Early Girl, Hybrid, red

New Girl

Martha Washington

Celebrity Red Hybrid

Damsel red hybrid

Mamaturo

Skyway Hybrid determinate

SV7846-hybrid

Better Bush Hybrid Determinate

Lemon Boy yellow Hybrid

Juane Flammee, 2-inch orange

 

“Black” tomatoes

Black Krim

Purple Russian

Piglet Willy’s French Black

Black Vernissage

 

Cherry Tomatoes

Sun Gold, Hybrid, orange, very sweet

Citrine, orange

Chocolate Cherry, Heirloom, black/red

Supersweet 100

Yellow Pear

Gardener’s Delight Heirloom

 

Paste/Sauce Tomatoes

Amish Paste

Granadero

Gilbertie Paste, Heirloom, red, largest paste tomato

San Marzano Heirloom

 

Grape

Brad’s Atomic (Baker Creek) multi colored

 

Strong Disease Resistance. In our region, early blight is one of the top diseases that causes tomato plants to wither prematurely. The following tomatoes are resistant to early blight, late blight and several other common tomato diseases.

Iron Lady F1, 5-ounce, red fruit. Determinate.

Defiant F1, 6-8 oz. globe-shaped red fruit. Determinate

Mountain Merit Plus F1, 8-10 oz. red fruit. Determinate

Stellar F1, 5 to 7-oz. red fruit. Determinate.

Jasper F1: Red Cherry. Indeterminate.

Beefmaster, large, red, indeterminate.

Peppers

We start our peppers even earlier than our tomatoes and grow them on in four-inch pots, and we have fully-red ripe peppers by August 1.

Sweet Peppers

Carmen, Hybrid, red, 5 to 6 inch horn-shaped peppers.

Ace, Hybrid, red bell peppers

King of the North, Red Hybrid

Red Mercury, red hybrid

Stocky Red Roaster

Cubanelle, horn, green 4 to 5 inches

Jimmy Nardello, long thin sweet

Staddon’s Select, early red

Italian Sweet

 

Hot Peppers

Habanera, Heirloom, orange, very hot

Jalapeno, Heirloom green to red, hot

Thai Hot

 

Aunt Polly’s Ground Cherries

Tart sweet berries, very prolific!

 

Eggplant

Nadia, black, 7 inches

Dancer, purple/pink 7 inches

Due to limited space, we are limiting the number of custom orders.  If there is something else you would like us to start for you, please give us a call or send an email and we will let you know if we can accommodate the order. Questions?  Give us a call at 845 482 3333 or email us.  If you don’t receive a confirmation by email, give us a call to make sure we got the order.

Happy Garden planning!