Farm Produce Items

Blooming Patches CSA Farm provides first to those who have pre-purchased this year's membership in our CSA farm.   Your CSA membership provides you most of our food items.   Some items are sold on a "cash basis" to members and non-members.   Non-members may purchase from Blooming Patches only when there is a particularly abundant harvest, and member orders have been filled.   For details on Annual Membership, please see the tab on "Annual Membership".

All of my produce is grown using natural or organic methods.   Many of the seeds I order are of "heirloom" varieties.   From time to time, I will have the following produce items available.  Be sure to also take a look at the non produce tabs on bakery & cheese and other food items, and handmade items.

CSA Membership Items

• Several types of peppers:

  HOT:
    ~ Cayenne Long Slim - for drying or sauce
    ~ Jalapenos - green to red
    ~ Mulato Isleno - use fresh or dried
    ~ Pasilla - great for hot pepper paste for Mexican dishes
    ~ Red Cherry Hots - for stuffing
    ~ Serrano - very hot, for Mexican dishes

  SWEET:
    ~ California Wonder - sweet mild flavor
    ~ Cubanelle - light green to ivory white - for grilling and stir fry
    ~ Golden Wonder - golden yellow to deep orange color
    ~ Hungarian Wax Peppers - long, great for stuffing, yellow to red color
    ~ Jupiter - best green to red bell pepper
    ~ Large Red Cherry Pepper - pickling, canning, and stuffing pepper


• Green Pod Beans - Stringless, Kentucky Wonder, and Provider
• Purple Pod Beans - they turn green when cooked
• Wax Pod Beans - Dragon Tongue, Dutch, Gold Rush


• Beets with tops - Bulls Blood, Cylindra, Golden Detroit, Lutz Green Leaf
• Broccoli - DeCiddo and Green Sprouting
• Brussels Sprouts
• Cabbage - Danish Ballhead, Early Jersey, Wakefield, Mammoth Red Rock, Savoy Perfection
• Chinese Cabbage - Pak Choi, Michihili, and Wong Bok
• Loose Leaf Lettuce - Amish Deer Tongue, Danyelle, Flame, Grand Rapids, Oak Leaf, Salad Bowl, Red Deer Tongue, Simpson Elite
• Head Lettuce - Butterhead, Crisphead
• Romaine Lettuce
• Kale
• Endive
• Collards
• Mustard Greens
• Swiss Chard
• Cauliflower
• Parsnips
• Peas - Oregon Sugar Pod, Sugar Ann, Sugar Snap, Delvedon Wonder, Wondo
• Spinach - Bloomsdale, Giant Noble, and New Zealand
• Rutabega
• Pumpkins - Amish Pie, Cushaw Green Striped, Jamboree, Jarrahdale, Small Sugar
• Radishes - Comet, German Giant (Parat), Purple Plum, Watermelon, White Beauty, Black Spanish
    (I have a recipe for a great radish greens soup. Includes cream and potatoes. Delicious.)

• Rutabaga
• Turnips - Purple Top White Globe and White Egg
• Watermelon
• Melon
• Cantaloupe
• Several types of squash:

  SUMMER SQUASH:
    ~ Black Beauty Zucchini
    ~ Yellow Crookneck squash
    ~ Dark Green Zucchini (Cocozelle)
    ~ Grey Zucchini
    ~ Golden Zucchini
    ~ Pallison Jaune et Verte squash
    ~ White Scallop Squash
    ~ Prolific Straightneck squash
  WINTER SQUASH:
    ~ Hubbard
    ~ Autumn Delight
    ~ Delicata
    ~ Pink Banana
    ~ Sibley
    ~ Thelma Saunders
    ~ Sweet Dumpling
    ~ Triamble
    ~ Butternut

• Okra
• Leeks
• Onions - Evergreen White, Red Burgundy, Walla Walla, Globe, and Red Onions
• Parsley
• Several types of tomato:

    ~ Yellow Stuffers
    ~ Amish Paste Tomato
    ~ Bonnie Best
    ~ Old Brooks
    ~ Polish Linguisa
    ~ Red Strawberry Tomato
    ~ Sausage Roma Tomato
    ~ Siberian
    ~ Sugar Lump
    ~ Banana Legs
    ~ Golden Nugget
    ~ Black from Tula
    ~ Black Prince
    ~ Brown Cherry Tomatoes
    ~ Mr. Stripey
    ~ Delicious
    ~ Red Plum Tomatoes
    ~ Roma
    ~ San Marzano
    ~ Sub Arctic Plenty

• Kohlrabi
• Celery
• Cucumbers - slicers and picklers
• Eggplant - Long purple, Louisiana Long Green, Rosa Blanca, Turkish Orange
• Garlic
• Carrots - Atomic Red, Cosmic Purple, Solar Yellow, Tendersweet, Thumbelina


• Several types of herbs:

    ~ Arugula/Roquette - use in salads, on sandwiches
    ~ Basil - Large Italian and Lettuce Leaf
    ~ Borage - use in salad or as garnish
    ~ Basil - Siam Queen and Sweet Dani Lemon Basil
    ~ Chives
    ~ Cilantro/Corriander
    ~ Dill
    ~ Lemon Grass
    ~ Sweet Margoram
    ~ Italian Oregano
    ~ Peppermint
    ~ Rosemary
    ~ Sorrell
    ~ Spearmint
    ~ Lavendar
    ~ Garden Mint
    ~ Lemon Balm
    ~ Edible Flowers
    ~ and More!

• Tarragon, Marjoram, Sage, Bronze Fennel Leaf
• Chocolate Mint, Spearmint, Peppermint
• Stevia (a sweet herb - CLICK HERE for more info from Wikipedia)
• Cut flowers

• Red Raspberries, Strawberries, and Blackberries
• Black Raspberries, Red Currants
• Pears, Apples
• Jams and Jellies
• Free Range chicken eggs - brown and green
• Chicken Meat
• Turkey Meat