What's Growing Now?
These are plants I'm still growing out. Most will be available in the Spring of 2027.
For plants available now, see the What's Available page.
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High Yield Vegetable Garden
Curated from what local gardeners know to work in our area, a selection of easy-to-grow vegetables that produce well. This includes traditional and grafted tomatoes, lemon cucumbers, zucchini, and beginner-friendly winter squashes.Â
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Available late Spring 2027.
Herbs - Common and Unusual
Parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme - try to say that without the tune from Scarborough Fair coming into your head. Also, three types of basil, oregano, chives, mint, dill, cilantro, tarragon, lemon thyme, sculpit, and savory.Â
Available early Spring 2027.
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Perennial Vegetables
Vegetables you only plant once, but continue to live or return for years. Many of these were common staple crops before our food choices were changed (restricted) by modern agricultural practices. Good King Henry, lovage, Nine Star Broccoli, perennial kale, walking onions, asparagus, rhubarb, skirret. This also includes hard to find perpetually self-seeding leafy greens such as Miner's lettuce.
Available in Spring 2027.
Red Warty Thing Pumpkin
This has been a popular choice in recent years, especially for kids learning to grow vegetables for the first time.
Available Spring 2027.
Fig Trees
This is a clone of the highly productive Brown Turkey tree in my yard.
Available Spring 2027.
Medicinal Garden
Chamomile, lemon balm, ginger, garlic, aloe vera, peppermint, St. John's wort, toothache plant, horehound, Goji berries shrubs, ginger, Elderberry, Moringa trees.
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Available Spring 2027.
Fiddle Leaf Fig
A high-impact indoor tree featuring large, glossy leaves that bring architectural drama to any home.
Tea Plant (Camellia sinensis)
We may not be able to grow coffee in the PNW, but we can grow tea. Tea is actually made from the dried leaves of a camellia plant that is perfectly happy in our climate. It will grow into tree if allowed to, but most people keep it at shrub level to make harvesting leaves easier.Â
If you like tea or are tea-growing curious, I'll send you to this rabbit hole of detailed information on growing and processing your own morning cup.Â
Available in Spring 2027.
Fruit-bearing shrubs and trees
Strawberries, blueberries, elderberries, figs, Goji berries, huckleberries.
Available Spring 2027.
Flowers
Hydrangeas, hardy geraniums, anemones, tulips, coreopsis, Calla lilies, fuschia - some bulbs, some tender perennials, some shrubs. Many provide ecological benefit to polinators.Â
A few available now, most available Spring 2027.
Trees
Tulip trees, chestnuts, maples, Japanese maples (acers), and elderberry trees.
TBD
Grasses
Weirdo Plants
Because I and my young gardener friends enjoy some of the quirkier things in life, we always pick a few plants that are unusual. This next year, we'll be growing Blue Sausage Fruit (aka, Dead Man's Fingers) and Hair Alliums (aka the Dr. Seuss flower).
Available Spring 2027.
TBD