Dates: Thursday May 21, Friday May 22, and Saturday May 23

By appointment after the sale.

Hours: Thursday  Friday 1–5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.—2 p.m.

Call Sue at 307-413-9115 with questions.

Get your certified organic vegetable, herb, and flower starts at the farm! It’s happening at Snowdrift Farm, 3.5 miles SW of Victor. Find us by going to the “Directions” page on this website. We will be implementing CDC recommendations for social distancing etc., so please stay tuned for details. 

Purchase 1 or 100 starts! These vegetable, herb, and flower varieties have been tested on our farm, and do well in our climate (ask us for growing tips!). All varieties are started from seed on the farm, and all soil & most seed is OMRI certified organic. Available for purchase in individual soil blocks* and pots. Come early for best selection. Cash, checks and credit cards accepted.

*Soil Blocks are pressed soil cubes that don’t need any plastic pots, and are ready to plant directly in the garden. The plants suffer no transplant shock with soil blocks.

Our plants will be hardened off and ready to plant in the garden —(for hothouse things like tomatoes, etc, they may or may not be hardened off depending on our weather!). We have an expanded flower selection this year, and you will find varieties for pots, bedding, edible, and cutting flowers.

All our pots are reused thanks to Trail Creek Nursery, valley yogurt eaters, and other individual donors of used pots.

Vegetables: in individual soil blocks* or pots (onions/leeks in bundles of 12)

• Beets*: Red and Golden
• Bok Choi*
• Broccoli*: early & late varieties
• Brussel Sprouts*
• Cabbage*: red & green, Napa
• Cauliflower*: white
• Cucumbers: slicing, pickling
• Kale*: Lacinato, green curly, Red Russian
• Leeks
• Lettuce*: red & green Romaine, green Butterhead, younger red & green crisp leaf
• Onions: Walla-walla, New York early yellow, red
• Pumpkin: New England Pie
• Radicchio*
• Spinach*
• Summer Squash: yellow
• Swiss Chard*
• Winter Squash: Spaghetti
• Zucchini: dark green

for the greenhouse or warm area: in pots

• Eggplant: Listada di Gandia,
• Peppers: Mild (Carmen, King Crimson bell, Antohi Romanian) Hot (Jalapeño, Ancho Poblano, Dragon’s Toe chinese)
• Tomatillo
• Tomatoes, cherry (Sun Gold, Gold Nugget[determinate], Indigo, Black, Red)
• Tomatoes, heirloom (Rose, Cherokee Purple, Brandywine, Pruden’s Purple, Red Pear, Moskvich)
• Tomatoes, regular/hybrid (Dwarf Confetti [red with orange stripes], Celebrity [determinate], Chef’s Choice orange)

Herbs: in individual pots, soil blocks* & 6-pacs

• Basil*, Genovese & Cinnamon [pots and soil blocks available]
• Chervil
• Chives
• Cilantro*
• Dill*
• Fennel*, bulb
• Oregano
• Parsley, Italian flat leaf
• Parsley, triple curled
• Rosemary
• Sage
• Thyme

Flowers: in soil blocks* and individual small pots

• Calendula* varieties: Sunshine Flashback 12-18″, Pacific Blend 12-24″
• Cosmos* varieties: Bright Lights, White, Sensation Mix, Rubenza red
• Dianthus/Sweet William varieties: Electron Blend, Volcano mix
• Dusty Miller ‘New Look’
• Love Lies Bleeding Amaranth
• Marigold*, ‘Mr. Majestic’
• Nasturtium*
• Nicotiana
• Phlox* ‘Art Shades’
• Rudbeckia varieties: Prairie Sun, Indian Summer, Goldilocks
• Snapdragon varieties: Madame Butterfly mix, Defiance red
• Sweet Pea*
• Zinnia* varieties: Aztec Sunset mix (front of border), Jim Baggett’s mix, Giant Cactus mix.

Suggestions for growing a 2020 Victory Garden in 8 easy steps! (adapted from Victory Garden 2.0 by National Garden Bureau)

1. Know your growing zone. Teton Valley Idaho has some different microclimates depending on specific location, but in general we are zone 4b, according to the USDA. We can expect frosts through May, even into June and July in some years. In the fall we usually get a light frost in the first 10 days of September. Thus, our outdoor growing season is a short window in the summer.

2. Make a list of what you like to eat. How many plants do you need? Are you going to eat everything fresh? Preserve anything? How much space do each of the veggies take up (lettuce vs. zucchini)? Consider succession planting to spread out the harvest. Some veggies need additional heat here, in the form of a south side of house microclimate, hoophouse or small greenhouse. (Think tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, melons)

3. Decide on Seeds or Transplants. Some things do fine from seed here, while others have too many days to harvest to grow from seed. We suggest considering transplants for Broccoli, Cabbage, Brussel Sprouts, Cucumber & Squash, Onions. Certainly for Tomatoes & Peppers.

4. Plan your garden space. Consider garden plots, raised beds, or containers, but make sure the location gets plenty of sun. Seed catalogues or packets give instructions for the space needed per plant. How will the garden be watered? The nurseries will have suggestions for automating watering or setting up drip systems.

5. Know your soil or buy good quality gardening mixes. A lot of soil here is some form of clay or clay-loam, which will be fine, but we recommend amending with compost. Make sure any compost you import doesn’t have chemical residue from herbicides etc. We recommend that any soil mixes or compost purchased in bags be OMRI certified organic, so as not to contain gross things like sewage sludge!

6. Follow suggested sowing and planting dates. We start things in the garden under cover in mid-May. We hold off on planting more sensitive things like squash, cucumbers and basil until early June. Row cover is highly recommended, as it both insulates from light frosts, and keeps the moisture more consistent for seed germination. Nurseries will have row cover to purchase.

7. Start composting. As the gardening season progresses, you can top-dress your crops with compost. Good fertility leads to healthy plants and less pest problems. Mulch will keep weeds down.

8. Don’t forget to plant some pollinator friendly flowers. This will allow your veggies to be pollinated!