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