2025 Updates:

Peppers are going fast! 

Weather update - we're still looking at a chance of frost Sat night - 24th. 25th still very cool. Tomatoes don't really like nights in the 40's!  I'd wait until at least Monday - Memorial Day to plant or even a day or two later if you can wait.  :). Definitely one of our cooler springs we've had in years! 

Opening Date will be Wednesday, May 14. Plants needed just a little more time to grow since the Spring was so cool.
See you then!

Here’s the updated list of varieties available for 2025. Are you ready for another year of gardening? With grocery prices increasing all the time, gardening has become even more important – to save money and have healthy food. Plus the benefit of heirlooms chosen for excellent flavor! And you can save seeds from heirlooms for food security.

For those of you new to us, we have LOTS of tomato varieties. When you come, allow for time to browse and read the interesting info signs by each variety. We will be there to help you choose varieties for your flavor palate or cooking needs. Our specialty is Italian and Paste/Heart varieties for making sauces and salsa and these are the best of the best for flavor and production.

I keep trying to reduce the number of varieties and amounts every year but we still have over 275 varieties available of tomatoes this year so there will be plenty to choose from. We’ve added at least one new variety for this year to each category/color. Bi-colors have several really nice new ones as they are really popular.

We have added some special new categories and varieties:
There is now a nice selection of Ruffled Tomatoes – gorgeous as they are and especially pretty when cut into slices.
Also, there will be a couple of trays of tomatoes for making juice, stuffing and special ones for making fried green tomatoes. The Italian section has 3 varieties added just for drying/roasting.
And last but not least, for all you GreenStalk growers, we have added some special and some pretty rare Mini Dwarf tomato and very compact growing pepper plants.

For those of you growing in containers or pots we have an excellent selection of Dwarf tomato plants that usually grow about 4' tall and were especially created to grow in containers!  Plus we have a nice selection of hanging basket varieties that you can grow in any hanging basket for cherry tomatoes right by your door for snacking.

We are happy to say that WE HAVE PEPPERS THIS YEAR!  I have sown tons of interesting varieties so it should be fun for you to choose some familiar ones and some new ones. The list will be updated soon on the pepper page. Lots of sweets and plenty of hots.

We do have a nice selection of onion plants again this year along with many other vegetables and herbs as usual, including tomatillos and ground cherries. And don't forget our incredible selections of Basils - over a dozen varieties. We have several varieties of Italian Basil that I get the seed direct from Italy with fantastic aroma and flavor.

If you want to reserve your tomato varieties, please email us with your want list. Google has made some updates that have made our Wishlist ordering not work correctly. You can add to the Wishlist to keep track of what you want but you will need to copy paste it to an email order. Please send your orders via email to plantswithstories@gmail.com. Please add your name (and user name if desired), phone number and what pick up date you are requesting. (You can change that date if needed via email or phone.) Most of the varieties will only have 6-12 seedlings started so get your orders in soon to reserve. The most popular varieties will have at least 18 seedlings.

Prices remain mostly similar to last year. Tomato plants and most peppers are $5 each or 3 for $12.00. 6-packs of veggies and herbs are now $3 and peat pots will be $1.50.

Hours: 9-6 on Tuesday through Saturday.
We will be closed for normal assisted sales on Sunday and Monday.
If those are the only days that work for you, you can make an appointment and we’ll be there for you – and the same goes for after 6pm. Just make an appointment or browse and drop payment in the drop box. Also, on Sundays and Mondays, you can still drop by for self serve shopping. We just won’t be down there all day to help.

Don’t forget to check out our Facebook Page – Plants with Stories for updates and any new happenings – and please share. We depend on word of mouth from you. Thank you for spreading the word about us.

Italics in the list are new varieties for this year.
MF means multiflora.
Many of these are new varieties that have not yet been added to our website but if you Google them you should find a description for most of them.
Email any questions to plantswithstories@gmail.com.

Remember to check back for changes to the listing depending on germination and sales.
I’m so looking forward to seeing you all again. I always say I have the VERY BEST customers!

We are seriously looking for someone to pass the baton to in taking over this stewardship to create their own business as it is getting to be a bit much for 2 almost 70 year olds. Please let us know if you or someone you know might be seriously interested. We are more than willing to work with them for a couple of years to mentor them.



2025 Tomato Varieties

Colors                                                    Row 1
Amish Gold Slicer
WI 55 Gold
Brandywine, Yellow
Crnkovic Yugoslavian Gold
Dr Wyche's
Harless Creek Gold
Summer Cider
Jaune Flaume                 not available
Woodle Orange
Jim Dandy
Kelloggs Breakfast           not available
Mennonite Orange
Sweet Ozark Orange
Persimmon, Russian
Evergreen
Glacial Zebra
Green Zebra
Lucinda
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Cherokee Green
Frog Princess
Malachite Box
Moldovan Green
Grubb's Mystery
Great White
White Beauty
White Queen            very low

BiColor/Stripes
Ananas Noire                   sold out
Berkeley Tie Dye
Summer of Love             unavailable
Blushing Bride
Copper River
Dagma's Perfection
Rainbow Jazz Heart
Mom's
Big Rainbow
Striped German
Virginia Sweets
Serendipity Striped
Thoburn's Terra Cotta
Girl Girl's Weird Thing
Berkeley Tie Dye, Pink           sold out
Chocolate Stripes
Dragon's Eye
Solar Flare
Vintage Wine

Stuffing/Fried/Juice
Canadian Stuffing       sold out
Get Stuffed
Giraffe
Green Thumb
Genoa - juice

Red/Pinks                                           Row 2
Arkansas Traveler
Clustermato
Eva Purple Ball
Gloria
Homestead 24
Legend
Rutgers Select
New Yorker
WI 55
Treat from Kosovo
Brandywine, Red        sold out
Brandywine, OTV
, Sudduth
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Daniels
Berg
Crimson Cushion (Ponderosa)
Boxcar Willie        unavailable
Caspian Pink
Digiorgi Acme
Elsa
Glessener
Guido
German Pink
Maslov's Giant
Mortgage Lifter
Matsu Express
Rose de Berne
Soldacki

Large
Bill Bean
Carol Chyko's Big Paste
Delicious
Dinner Plate
The Dutchman
German Giant
Giant Belgium
Omar's Lebanese
Red Penna

Ruffled
Large Red
Marmande Garnier Rouge
Mushroom Basket
Florentine Beauty
LaVie en Rose
Jazz
Giant Fiolet
Negrillo de Almoguera
Tim's Black Ruffles

Earlies                                                   Row 3
Earlirouge
Jory
Klein Early
Stupice
Ida Gold
Katja

DARKS
Rasp Mochi
Sugarplum Fairy
Pink Siberian Tiger
Black Beauty
Black Prince
Japanese Black Trifele
Tsygan
Brandywine, Black
Brandywine, True Black       sold out
Black from Tula
Black Giant
Amazon Chocolate
Black Krim
Cherokee Purple
Faelan's First Snow
Carbon
Daniel Burson
Gary O'Sena
JD's Special C-tex
Margaret Curtain
Polaris
Violet Noire
Vorlon

Dark Cherries
Black Cherry
Chocolate Cherry
Dikovinka       sold out
Garnet
Rosella

Brad's Cherries
Brad's Atomic Grape
Indigo Blueberries
Indigo Cherry Drops
Indigo Gold Berries
Cosmic Eclipse
Dark Galaxy

Herbs and Veggies                            Row 4

Cherries                                              Row 5
Besser
Camp Joy
Peacevine (Sweet 100)
Sweet Aperitif
Sweetie
Iva's Red Berry        sold out
Fruit Punch
Pink Princess
Karma Apricot
Rainbow Cherry
Snow White                     1 left
White Rabbit
Green Dr's Frosted
Green Grape
Galina's Yellow
Yellow Pear
Sungold F1
Cherry Roma    
Santa        sold out
Red Grape     sold out
Raspberry Sugarplum
Riesentraube MF
Rose Quartz MF
Barry's Crazy Cherry MF
Blondkopchen MF
Rebel Alliance MF
Blush
Bumblebee Sunrise     almost out
Bumblebee Pink
Bumblebee Purple
Copper Beauty
Pink Tiger
Tropical Sunset         sold out

Currant
Candyland
Rainbow
Matt's Wild Cherry
Spoon
Coyote
White Currant          sold out
Orange Currant

Hanging Basket
Bajaja
Cherry Falls
Gypsy Dancer     not available
Sirja's Love
Rosy Falls
Whippersnapper        unavailable

Italian                                              Row 6
Grappoli d'Inverno                   roasting/drying
Fiaschetta di Manduria  det                    drying
Principe Borghese                                    drying
Mrs. Bot's Italian Giant
Mrs. Maxwell's Big Italian
Palmira's Northern Italian
Costoluto Fiorentino
Costoluto Genovese
Goldman's Italian
Italian Heirloom
Red Pear, Franchi
Angelina's Italian                       Ind
Belmonte                                   Ind
Bisignano #2                             Ind
Hungarian Italian Paste           Ind
Santa Maria                                Ind
Mama Leone                              Ind
Bellstar                                        det
Chico III                                       det
Doucet's Plum Producer         det   unavailable
Martino's Roma                         det
Oroma                                         det
Zyska Polish Paste                    det  almost out
Rio Grande                                 det
Ropreco                                      det
Napoli                                      s det
Nova                                        s det      unavailable
Vilms                                       s det

Italian Paste
San Marzano, gigante 2                   sold out
, da Canna                                 det       sold out
, Redorta

Paste                                    Ind
Amish Paste
Baylor Paste                         unavailable
Debarao
Grandma Mary's
Heidi
Kara Market
Sheboygan
Polish Linguisa
Opalka                                      almost out
Sarnowski Polish Plum
Black Plum
Debarao, Black
Ukrainian Purple/Purple Russian
Orange Banana
Banana Legs
Marzano Fire
Striped Roman                     almost out


Juice/Stuffing/Fried
Genoa     for uice
Canadian Stuffing           sold out
Get Stuffed
Giraffe
Green Thumb

HeartsRow 6
Anna Russian
Belarusian Heart
Serbian Oxheart
Ukrainian Heart
Eagle's Beak
Ernesto
Fish Lake Oxheart
Kim's Civil War
Kosovo
Reif Red
Orange Minsk
Ashgabat
Midnight Sun
Taiga              unavailable
True Color         sold out
Berkeley Tie Dye Heart      sold out
Brad's Black Heart
Cherokee Purple Heart

Dwarf
New Big Dwarf        sold out
Zoe's Sweet               1 left
Rosella Crimson
Sarah's Red
Pool's Glas
Coastal Pride Orange
Sweet Sister Sunny
Jade Beauty         sold out
Confetti
Adelaide Festival
Firebird Sweet
Brandy Fred
Maralinga
Rosella Purple
Purple Heartthrob
Pink Passion           sold out
Geranium Kiss
Sprite
Franklin Co
Bendigo Dawn
Velvet Night
Sweet Splash Electra
Maglia Rosa

Greenstalk
Tomatoes
Birdie Rouge
Fat Frog       Ind     sold out
Golden Hour  Ind
Groovy Tunes
Inkspot     S det
Jochalos
Pinocchio Orange
Balcony Miracle gold
Balcony Miracle red

Peppers
Earliredred bell     sold out
Red Wonder red bell    sold out
Palana Babur red bell
Zolostisty yellow bell   sold out
Lada oj bell
Mt Etna   Ital frying   sold out
Player pointed sweet
Yala yellow snack      sold out
Sakuramuticolor small      sold out
Red Belgium yellow/red bell    sold out
Feherozon cream/red      sold out
Ferenc Tender    paprika
Hajduczek     roasting
Knaz     roasting    sold out