2026 update

We are getting excited to see all of you again!  Each one of you is greatly appreciated and so many of you have become friends. We’re so blessed to have met you all. Thank you for being such fantastic customers.

Are you ready for another gardening year? It’s becoming more and more important to grow your own food with food prices rapidly increasing and so many instances of recalls of mass produced foods – even produce! Growing it yourself is an adventure, to be sure – but so very rewarding. We offer Heirloom and open pollinated varieties you can save the seeds from if you desire.  Many of our varieties are rare ones and all have been chosen to grow well in our local climate. We grow them and test them before offering them here.

May 12 is our projected opening date for this year.  Here’s hoping our Michigan spring weather cooperates! Remember, we don’t have big heated greenhouses so getting the little seedlings out to the hoop houses depends on what’s happening with cold nights.  Please check here and our Facebook page- Plants with Stories for updates and any new happenings – and please share about us!  We depend on word of mouth from you all.

Prices remain the same as last year. Tomato plants and most peppers are $5 each.                                                                        6-packs of veggies and herbs are $3.00 and Peat Pots are $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 likely be able to be there for you – and the same goes for after 6pm. Just let us know you are coming or browse and drop payment in the drop box.   On Sundays and Mondays, you can still drop by for self serve shopping. We just won’t be down there all day to help.

If this is your first time visiting, please make sure to allow enough time to browse. We have interesting information tags hung by the varieties to help you choose – and there’s a LOT of them. We’ll be glad to help you find varieties that meet your taste preferences and needs. And you can always ask us any gardening questions, we’ll be glad to help.

Below is the list of available plants for this year. We’ve got a very full list this year with plenty of old favorites and some new ones, of course.   I know I keep saying I’m going to cut back on the varieties, but there are soooo many good ones, it’s impossible for me to eliminate them.  We’ve got close to 300 varieties of tomatoes this year!  And we did include the ever popular extra large, ruffled, earlies, hanging basket types, dwarf (for growing in containers) and even some smaller than dwarf for the Greenstalk. (You know - my favorite vertical planter I have on display outside the Hoop Houses.)  And of course I’ve included our many special Italian varieties – for eating and canning, including the San Marzano varieties I get right from Italy. We will have our specialty of almost 40 varieties of processing tomatoes especially chosen for making sauces, salsa, juice, etc. Plus for those of you loving fried green tomatoes, we even have a couple of varieties just for that. And even a couple of varieties great for making dried tomatoes.

We’re trying again for a super amount of peppers for you. Hopefully our starting mix this year isn’t defective, like last year! The peppers include a lot of special ones for grilling, making paprika, pickling, lots of hot ones for salsa and hot sauces and of course plenty of bells and other sweets like pimento. See the pepper page for list.

There are a lot of herbs this year with a few new ones added for fun.There will be the usual incredible selection of a dozen different types of Basils, including our special ones that we get the seeds direct from Italy that are top notch.

For other Veggies we’ve sown some eggplant so hopefully they’ll grow good for you.There are a lot of varieties in different colors including the usual dark purple but also pink, green, white and striped from many different countries. They’ve all been chosen for excellent flavor and for shorter maturity so should grow well here. Plus there will be lots of tomatillos and hopefully some ground cherries this year.

Cucumbers, zucchini, melon, squash and pumpkins will again be available in peat pots to pick from.

The cool hoop house will have the usual great selection of salad fixings – lettuce, spinach, arugula and Asian greens. Plus Swiss Chard, Beets and Onions and more.

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. Lots of them are rare and hard to find anywhere else. Email any questions to plantswithstories@gmail.com.

To pre-place your order and reserve your varieties, please email us 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, 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. But even if one you are looking for is gone, don't worry, we have tons of other fantastic varieties!

The list is in the order they will be in the Hoop Houses - subject to slight changes in order to fit.