Litchi Tomato (Solanum sisymbriifolium) – Description & Uses

Litchi tomato is a unique, spiny plant related to tomatoes and eggplants. It produces small, round fruits that ripen from green to bright red and resemble cherry tomatoes. The plant features deeply lobed leaves covered in sharp thorns, along with attractive white to pale blue flowers with yellow centers. Despite its name, it is not a true tomato but has a similar juicy texture with a slightly tart, cherry-like flavor.

Uses:

Fresh eating: Ripe fruits can be eaten raw; flavor is mildly sweet-tart.

Preserves & jams: Excellent for making jellies or chutneys due to its tangy taste.

Desserts: Can be used in pies or sweet sauces similar to berries.

Ornamental: Grown for its striking flowers and unusual, spiny appearance.

Garden protection: Sometimes used as a trap crop to help manage pests like nematodes.

⚠️ Note: Only fully ripe red fruits are edible—unripe parts and foliage are toxic.

A versatile mix of classic and specialty Jalapeño Pepper varieties offering a range of heat from mild to moderately hot. This blend can produce peppers in shades of green, red, and sometimes yellow or purple, with thick walls and the signature crisp, juicy texture jalapeños are known for. Perfect for fresh salsas, stuffing, pickling, grilling, or adding a balanced kick to your favorite dishes.

🌶️ 2,500 – 8,000 SHU (Scoville Heat Units)

This mix is ideal for gardeners who enjoy dependable, productive plants and flavorful peppers with just the right amount of heat.

Purple Marconi peppers are a sweet, Italian heirloom pepper variety that ripens from green to a vibrant purple, eventually turning red. They are known for their narrow, tapered shape, reaching about 5-6 inches in length, and are a heavy-yielding variety. 

Color: Ripens from green to deep purple, then red.

Shape: Narrow, tapered, and can grow to 6 inches long.

Flavor: Sweet, with a mild, smoky flavor.

Taste: Sweetness increases as they mature from purple to red.

Usage: Can be used fresh in salads, fried, or stuffed.

Plant Height: Grows to 3 feet tall.

Origin: Italian heirloom variety. 

Traditional red cherry flavor that is well-balanced and flavorful.

AAS Winner

Green turns to purple flesh. Very delicate tomato. 

Vaccinium angustifolium

Stratification: Cold stratify 90 days or sow outdoors in late fall or winter. Mix with vermiculite or perlite or moss and place in plastic bag and fridge for 6 weeks. Sow seed at soil tops, do not let seed dry out.

Blueberries produce clusters of small urn-shaped flowers that range in colour from white to pale pink. The fruits are true berries with many small seeds and are a deep indigo to black colour when ripe.

Size: Lowbush blueberries can grow up to two feet tall and wide. 

Leaves: Lowbush blueberry leaves are short-stalked, elliptic, and have finely serrated edges. The upper surface is pale to dark green, while the lower surface is lighter green. 

Flowers: In the spring, lowbush blueberries produce small, white, or pink bell-shaped flowers. 

Berries: Lowbush blueberries produce small, juicy, blue berries in the summer. The berries are rich in vitamin C and sugars. 

Fall color: In the fall, lowbush blueberry leaves turn bronze, scarlet, and crimson. 

Winter color: In the winter, lowbush blueberry twigs turn yellow-green to reddish. 

Habitat 

Lowbush blueberries grow in open conifer woods, sandy or rocky balds, and old fields.

They prefer full sun to partial shade and acidic, moist to dry soils.

Uses 

Lowbush blueberries are often used in jams and jellies.

They are also eaten by wildlife, such as bears.

Lowbush blueberries are occasionally used to revegetate disturbed sites.

Verde is an early variety with tart flavor when young, becoming sweeter as it ripens. Harvest in 85 days. Tomatillo Verde produces large juicy fruits that weigh 3-4 oz. Determinate plants grow 24" tall. Grow two plants to ensure fruit set because two or more tomatillo plants are required for the plants to blossom. 

Plant seeds 1/4" deep then thin to 24" apart. It is best to start seeds indoors.

Medium to large size fruits are ready to harvest when husks split and fruit color changes from a yellow green to medium green. Perfect for Salsa Verde or as a special addition to any Mexican dish.

Tomatillo seeds can be started indoors.

Tomatillos are an ingredient often present in Mexican dishes, and the fruit is grown similarly to a tomato.

Sow seeds 2-3 weeks before the last frost date and transplant when soil is warm.

Plant seeds 1/4" deep and 3" apart. Seeds should come up in 14-21 days. 

Thin plants to 24" apart after germination.

Each packet contains 50 Organic Tomatillo Verde seeds. Physalis philadelphica. Annual. Open-pollinated, heirloom, non-GMO. Harvest in 85 days.

Extra large roma tomato; plum shaped fruits. 

Warm Season

68 days from transplant

Highly productive

Determinate

Nice red colour at maturity. Excellent for sauces.

Supremo Roma Bush Tomato is a productive, compact determinate variety valued for its large, uniform plum-shaped fruits and strong performance in warm climates. This hybrid sets abundant clusters of bright red, firm, meaty tomatoes with minimal seeds—perfect for sauces, paste, canning, or fresh eating.

Plants form a neat, bushy habit, reaching about 3 ft (90 cm) tall, and deliver a concentrated harvest in 65–70 days. With good disease resistance and dependable fruit set in heat, Supremo is well-suited for garden beds, raised planters, and containers.

Sangria watermelons are large, oval to oblong fruits, averaging 17 to 25 centimeters in diameter. The rind is smooth, firm, and dark green, covered in light green, broken stripes, and mottling. Underneath the surface, the thin portion of rind that connects to the flesh is white, crunchy, and edible with a vegetal, cucumber-like flavor. The flesh is dark red, dense, aqueous, and crisp, encasing many black-brown, flat seeds. Sangria watermelons are known for their smooth-grained texture and have a high sugar content emitting a sweet, subtly fruity flavor.