Throughout the spring and summer seasons, we carry an extremely wide selection of vegetables for the kitchen garden. We also carry over 100 varieties of organically-grown herbs to complement the kitchen garden, and continue to offer herbs throughout the year for windowsill gardens.
Cole Crops have arrived! (week of 3/16/10)
Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale and kohlrabi make up a group of cool season vegetables in the Brassicaceae family known as "cole crops". The word “cole” means stem and has nothing to do with the fact that these vegetables are tolerant to “cold", although they do prefer/require the cool season temperatures of spring and fall. And we've got them: broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage (Savoy, Flat Dutch, Golden Acre, Red Acre), cauliflower, collards, kale, kohlrabi and Swiss chard.
We also have rhubarb, asparagus, horseradish, seed potatoes, onion sets, shallots and strawberries.
Next week expect 6 types of lettuce, peas, bok choy and sweet onion plants.
Let's get the garden started! Don't miss our free and informative seminars on veggie gardening all spring.
Have you visited our Herb Department?
Herbs delight the senses with their scent, flavor, texture and color. Having been used for thousands of years as medicines, dyes, decorations, symbols, food and flavoring, herbs have a fascinating history and possess a myriad of meanings. Simply put, herbs are some of the most useful plants in the garden and among the easiest to grow.
We offer a comprehensive herb handout designed to help you prepare your herb garden, choose the right plants for your space and needs, and successfully maintain your garden throughout the season. Stop by the store for a copy!
Vegetables at Valley View Farms
The Foard family have been vegetable farmers in Baltimore County for four generations. We were growers of fresh produce for use by Baltimore food stores for many years prior to opening our store in Cockeysville in 1962.
Bill Foard, owner and CEO of Valley View (with a B.S. in Agriculture from Cornell University), insists on growing the best vegetable plants possible to sell at our store. He starts by purchasing the best seed available to grow our transplants at our farm in Hydes, MD. He and our head grower select the best varieties to produce the strongest and most prolific plants.
Below is a list of the vegetable plants that we carry:
- Over 30 varieties of tomatoes
- Over 30 varieties of peppers
- 6 (yes, 6!!) varieties of eggplant
- 5 different cucumbers
- 5 types of squash
- 3 varieties of melons
- 2 types of asparagus roots
- rhubarb
- horseradish roots
- 3 different types of onion sets
- shallots
- garlic
- artichoke
- 5 different potatoes
- okra
- pumpkin
- lima beans
- snap beans
- sugar snap peas
- corn
- beets
- 2 types of carrots
- leeks
- 2 varieties of onion plants
- spinach
- 6 different lettuces
- 2 varieties of broccoli
- 4 varieties of cabbage
- cauliflower
- collards
- kale
- kohlrabi
- radicchio
- Swiss chard
- pak choi (bok choy)
Please call for current availability. We do not carry all veggies at all times throughout the season...
Tomatoes
Nothing says summertime like a hand-picked, juicy tomato right from the backyard garden or container. Our own farm greenhouses grow over 30 varieties of these fresh, ripe beauties, from the diminutive Sweet Million Tomato to The Guiness Book of World Record's biggest ever Delicious variety (7 lb 12 oz).
Heirloom varieties are extremely popular, and we carry five including the classic, Radiator Ray's Mortgage Lifter. Our healthy transplants are sold hardened off and ready for your garden.
OVER 30 TOMATO VARIETIES
- Beefmaster
- Beefsteak
- Better Boy
- Better Bush
- Big Beef
- Big Boy
- Big Girl
- Brandywine
- Bush Celebrity
- Celebrity
- Champion
- Delicious
- Early Girl
- Early Pick
- German Johnson
- Grape
- Husky Red Cherry
- Large Red Cherry
- La Roma
- Lemon Boy
- Mortgage Lifter
- Oxheart
- Patio
- Plum Crimson
- Pruden's Purple
- Rutgers
- Striped German
- Sungold
- Supersonic
- Supersteak
- Sweet Cluster
- Sweet Million
- Tiny Tim
- Tomatillo/Husk Tomato
- Whopper
- Yellow Pear
Let our staff and our informative signs help you choose the right tomatoes for your garden. Whether you are looking for big daddies, heirlooms, early fruiters, or tomatoes for container-growing, we are sure to have the right tomatoes for you!
Peppers
We go a little crazy over peppers at Valley View. Would you believe we have bell peppers in yellow, orange, purple, red and green? Our Super Heavy Weight variety takes two hands to hold. Our peppers have an international flavor too, with names like Valencia, Cubanella, Hot Portugal, Thai Hot and our nine varieties of Trinidad peppers.
With 37 different peppers, there is definitely one sweet or hot enough for the most "seasoned" pepper connoisseur. But take caution-- our Scorpion peppers are the hottest in the world!
Vegetable Planting Guide
We are very pleased to announce that we now have available a new, updated version of our VEGETABLE PLANTING GUIDE, an invaluable resource for gardeners compiled by the owners of Valley View Farms. To obtain your FREE copy, please stop by the store.
More coming soon...