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The lowest of care plants! Soak in water once a week and let completely dry. Bright, indirect light. A variety of shapes and sizes add dramatic flair to any living space.
Alice’s Dream have indigo shoulders on rosy golden fruit, while the plant itself has purple undertones - you can’t miss her in the garden! This medium-sized beefstake variety is a fabulous slicer with a creamy texture. If you love a simple plate of sun-kissed homegrown tomatoes sprinkled with salt + pepper, she’s for you. Juicy, lower acid, melt-in-your-mouth.
Indeterminate + requires staking
$4 each or
3 for $10 (save $2!)
With piles of upright plumes in warm tones of orange and umber, Amaranth Hot Biscuits is a show-stopping cut flower we grow every season. It's a gorgeous backdrop in the garden that help create stunning late summer and fall bouquets along with sunflowers and asters.
It dries beautifully, too!
Full sun, well draining soil. Can grow up to 4 feet tall! But produce much smaller blooms when planted close together.
$4 each or 3 for $10 (save $2!)
Dark crimson plumes along with large burgundy leaves make passersby stop in their tracks when they see Amaranth Velvet Curtains growing in our gardens. This Dr. Seuss-like plant is a must-grow for late summer and fall bouquets along with sunflowers and asters.
Easy to grow, full sun, well draining soil, can grow up to 4 ft tall! Dries wonderfully, too.
$4 each or 3 for $10 (save $2!)
What I love most about Cranberry Beans is their versatility (and that the pods are pink!): harvest them fresh off the vine for immediate eating, freezing, dehydrating or canning. Leave them on the vine to dry, and the seeds store perfect in the pantry for adding to soups and stews.
These Cranberry Beans (also known as borlotti) are meaty and hearty, with a richer taste than their bush bean cousins. They are vigorous pole beans, growing over 8 ft. tall in my veggie garden last year! They literally went up my trellis, then hung over the top like Dr. Seuss hair.
Beans are an excellent source of protein, fibre, starch and vitamins A & C.
Type: Vegetable, Pole Bean
Height: 8 ft+
Light: full sun
Moisture: keep soil evenly moist, but not wet or seeds will rot
Planting: 1" deep, into warm soil. I plant dense, in a container 3-4" apart
Harvest: 75-90 days
I've grown Scarlet Runner Beans for many years for a very specific purpose: the flowers are a magnet for hummingbirds! I plant them along the fence of my food garden enclosure, where I train them to wind horizontally - each seed produces a vine 10-15 ft. Ruby Throated Hummingbirds (the only type I've seen in my Zone 5 gardens) visit the scarlet flowers, then zoom to the fruit and veggie plants, herbs and native plants. It's a joy to see.
While usually grown for their splendid flowers, every part of this versatile veggie is edible! The starchy roots, young leaves and even the flowers can be eaten. (Check out the bright pink-light purple fresh seeds! So fun.) Runner beans must be thoroughly cooked before eating, as they contain traces of lectin (phytohaemagglutinin), which is toxic in large quantities. The beans are dense, with a thick texture, and slightly smoky flavour.
Dried beans store excellent in the pantry, and can be added to soups and stews after soaking.
To get the most flowers, pinch off forming pods; this sends a message to the plant to push out more buds.
Type: Vegetable
Height: 10-15ft.
Light: full sun
Soil: well draining, warm
Planting: Direct sow late spring-early summer, 1-2" deep into warm soil (too cold, and the seeds will rot), 3-4" apart.
Harvest: 75 days