Catalogues - Spring Vegetables and Plants
Our catalogues list the main plants that we grow, but at the farm stand you will often find plants not listed online. If you have questions about what these other varieties are or about how to grow them, please contact us.
Our catalogues are a work in progress that we are fitting in between seeding in the greenhouse, getting the laundry done, preparing this year's vegetable beds, and playing with the kids. Please be patient with us as we work to bring you a comprehensive list of our plants before the farm stand opens on April 1. Thanks!
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ARUGULA |
| Sorry, no photo available. | BEANS (broad) BEANS (bush) BEANS (pole) |
| Sorry, no photo available. | BEETS |
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BROCOLI |
| Sorry, no photo available. | BRUSSEL SPROUTS |
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CABBAGE |
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CAULIFLOWER |
| Sorry, no photo available. | CELERY/CELERIAC |
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CHARD – Silverbeet This plant produces prolific numbers of large, dark-green leaves held up by juicy, thick white midribs. Silverbeet is perfect for tasty, nutritious steamed greens, soups, casseroles and stir-fries and in salads when leaves are young. |
| Sorry, no photo available. | CORN |
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CORN SALAD – Vit |
| Sorry, no photo available. | CUCUMBER |
| Sorry, no photo available. | EGGPLANT |
| Sorry, no photo available. | FENNEL |
| Sorry, no photo available. | GARLIC |
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KALE – Red Russian Delicious, packed full of vitamins and minerals, and beautiful to see! The flat, serrated grey-green leaves have purple stems and veins which are tender enough to eat raw in salads and tasty when larger and steamed. Self-seeds if left to flower in next years’ summer garden. |
| Sorry, no photo available. | LEEKS |
| Sorry, no photo available. | LETTUCE |
| Sorry, no photo available. | MELONS |
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MESCLUN – Spring mix A cold-hardy and visually delightful mix of lettuces, arugula, beets, coriander, mustards, corn salad, chard and kales. Save a few of the most productive and pretty plants to seed next year’s crop in your garden and let Nature do all the work! |
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ONION – Walla Walla These onions produce an exceptionally early harvest of large, sweet white bulbs. Again, let a couple go to seed, enjoy the pretty purple globe of flowers in your garden next summer, then let the seeds fall into your garden soil to provide you with next years’ early harvest! |
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PEAS– Pea Sprouts Why wait until mid-June for that quintessential burst of ‘summer’s finally here!’ pea taste when you can enjoy it in early spring? Common in Asian cuisine, the versatility and tender sweet taste of edible pea sprouts have only recently been ‘discovered’ by Western gardeners and gourmets. These plants produce tender sprouts (up to 5” long before getting even slightly tough), they are cold-hardy and produce well into summer. Let some of the sprouts go to seed when you start eating your other peas mid-June, and you will have pretty purple/cream flowers to add to summer salads. The pods are nice when small, eaten as a snow pea, but get bitter when they fill out. Save some seeds for next year and grow your own! |
| Sorry, no photo available. | PEPPERS - Bell |
| Sorry, no photo available. | PEPPERS - Hot |
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RADICCHIO – Palla Rossa This reliable radicchio forms a gorgeous, firm, round, dark-red and white head which appears like a jewel when you pull aside the tattered clump of outside green leaves. With a unique and tangy taste, it adds flavour, colour, and crisp texture to salads. It can be planted for summer or fall harvest. Radicchio is a leaf chicory, grown as a leaf vegetable. It has a bitter and spicy taste, which mellows when it is grilled or roasted. It can be used to add color and zest to salads. |
| Sorry, no photo available. | SQUASH - Summer |
| Sorry, no photo available. | SQUASH - Winter |
Metchosin farm offers high quality,organic plant starters by order for commercial nurseries. We also offer home gardeners plant starts and occasionally delicious produce and free range eggs at our farm stand during our spring and fall opening season.