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Veggies for Shade

Most vegetables need at least 8 hours of direct sun per day. If shade is a problem in your garden, give these vegetables a whirl! Bronze Fennel, Garlic Chives, Good King Henry, and Vit Mache will grow with less than 4 hours of direct sun. Most of these vegetables (Tomatoes, Spinach, Arugula, Kale, Collards, Chives, Beans, Chard & Mustard Greens) need at least 4 hours of direct sunlight in order to produce some food - but they will grow better and yield more with even more light.

Abundant Bloomsdale Spinach

Abundant Bloomsdale Spinach

45 days. Looking for dark leafy greens? Look no further. This spinach is deep green with glossy, savoy (wavy) leaves full of healthy carotenoids like beta-carotene. Leaves are sweet and succulent and great raw or cooked. Plants are bolt-resistant and slow-growing, so it is better for spring gro...

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Arugula

Baby salad greens (25 days); mature (45 days). Originating from the Mediterranean region, Arugula is a cool weather loving plant – grow it outdoors in spring and fall or in a hoophouse over the winter (see Growing Instructions tab). This versatile plant can be grown as an edible cover crop/grou...

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Blue Curled Vates Kale

Blue Curled Vates Kale

55 days. Blue Curled Vates is an open-pollinated version of curly kale. It's easy to grow and will produce spring through fall. Very cold hardy and can overwinter until spring—with winter protection—to produce baby kale shoots and kale raab (edible flowering shoots). This kale stays shorter tha...

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Blush Tomato

84 days. Blush is a perfect example of needed innovation in the breeding of open-pollinated crops. Introduced in 2011 by farmer/breeder Fred Hempel of Baia Nicchia Farm in Sunol, CA. Blush is vigorous, productive and boy is it tasty! Fruits are oval, 2- 2½" long, exhibiting a light gold skin wi...

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Bronze Fennel

55 days. Bronze Fennel is a shade tolerant, edible, reseeding perennial. Green, purple and bronze-tinged leaves add a welcomed visual texture to any garden. Plant height at flowering is 4 - 5’. Bronze fennel’s leaves are edible and have a flavor that is delicate and milder than common fennel. S...

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Champion Collard

Champion Collard

70 days. We think collards are underutilized in the garden and kitchen. It’s just about the easiest vegetable to grow. Started in the early spring, collards will produce copious amounts of greens from spring through late fall. Champion is quite cold hardy and with luck (and perhaps some protect...

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Chives

90 days. Chive is an easy-to-grow, perennial green onion. Leaves are round like a green onion but narrower. Leaves grow to 12" tall; flower heads reach a height of 20". This is a cold hardy plant, so it can be harvested early in spring and late into fall. It's also a great permaculture plant be...

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Cupidon Bean

55 days. High-yielding French filet bean with narrow and round, 7-inch long green pods. Bush type plants produce high yields of crisp yet tender pods. Pleasant mellow flavor. Great eaten raw in salads. Called Haricot Verts in French, these beans are traditionally prepared lightly steamed and se...

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Fordhook Giant Chard

Fordhook Giant Chard

50 days. We always recommend chard (aka "Swiss Chard") to new gardeners because it's one of the easiest crops to grow. On top of that, Fordhook Giant is one of the most vigorous, high yielding, and reliable chards. Introduced in 1934, it has been a favorite of both market and home gardeners eve...

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Garlic Chives

90 days. Garlic Chive is a perennial plant similar to common chives, but distinguishable by their flat, broader leaves and fragrant white flowers. This is an all-around great plant for gardeners! Resistant to common animal pests (deer, groundhogs, rabbits). Cold hardy and tolerant of deep shade...

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Gold Currant Tomato

Gold Currant Tomato

70 days. Currant tomatoes belong to a different species than common tomatoes. They produce clusters of round, berry-sized tomatoes that are known for their intense flavor and disease resistance. Gold Currant produces yellow fruits that are about 1” diameter and offer a zesty tomato flavor. Vine...

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Good King Henry

Good King Henry

Good King Henry is a perennial vegetable, indispensable to an edible landscape, permaculture or edible forest garden. Good King Henry is low maintenance and easy to grow once established. Plants will grow in partial shade as well as full sun. Plant reaches a maximum height of 2½ feet. From seed...

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Grand Rapids Lettuce

Grand Rapids Lettuce

28 days baby, 50 days mature. In our never-ending pursuit to recover the long-lost history of agriculture in the Great Lakes region, we fortunately stumbled upon “Grand Rapids” lettuce, which tells a story of the region that began over 100 years ago. Bred in the late 1800’s by Eugene Davis, kno...

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Growing-In-Place Cherry Tomato

Growing-In-Place Cherry Tomato

60 days. This juicy, currant type, deep red, round tomato is the size of a small cherry sporting mouth-popping, bold flavor. It was a real hit at our local HomeGrown Festival 2014. Perfect in salads and kids love them! Plants are vigorous and yield large quantities of clustered fruits all summe...

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Jazzy Leaf Lettuce Mix

Jazzy Leaf Lettuce Mix

30 days baby. A fabulous mix of wine red, neon green, and colors in-between! This is a seed mix from one of Erica’s lettuce breeding adventures. Loose leaf lettuces make a great cut-and-come-again salad mix. Will form loose heads if left to mature. This mix is particularly cold hardy and resist...

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Joker Lettuce

50-60 days. Bred in 2011 by farmer, plant breeder, and seed activist Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed, Joker has become our favorite head lettuce! It has a distinctly sweet, buttery flavor, yet every part of this lettuce retains a crispy, crunch. Even the green leafy parts are crunchy! It's a c...

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Mizuna

25 days for baby greens, 40 days mature. We have been growing this Japanese mustard green since 1999 because of its fast growth and versatility. Grow it whenever: spring, summer, fall or winter. Cold hardy to about 15 °F inside a hoophouse (cover it when temps dip below 15 °F). Unlike most fall...

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Purple Osaka Mustard

Purple Osaka Mustard

20 days baby, 40 days full size. We started growing this mustard green in the early 90’s and have been enjoying it ever since! Harvested as a baby green, Purple Osaka adds welcomed color and flavor diversity to all kinds of salads. Whole plants (mature leaves and stems) are prepared as mustard ...

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Vit Mache

50 days. Vit Mache (pronounced “mosh”) is an annual vegetable grown for baby salad greens. Common in Europe, Mache is a vegetable that has recently gained popularity in the U.S. Mache is extremely cold hardy and can be grown in cold frames, low tunnels, or hoophouses without additional protecti...

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Little Gem Lettuce

Little Gem Lettuce

30 days baby, 55 days head. Little Gem is a cross between butterhead and romaine, giving it the unique trait of having romaine’s crunch with the sweetness and small size of a butterhead. Can be grown for baby greens or for heads. Baby leaves can be grown as cut-and-come-again (they grow upright...

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Paw Paw

Paw Paw, also called “Michigan Banana” is a large, tropical, sweet fruit that is easy to grow. Mike ate his first Paw Paw in 2000 and has been hooked ever since! Native to North America, Paw Paw is a beautiful small tree that produces large quantities of delectable fruits in the fall. Trees wil...

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