What We Grow

2011 Plant and Seed Catalogue - Vegetables, Herbs, Strawberries, and more!

This year’s plant and seed catalogue includes our usual garden favourites as well as a wider range of specialty and gourmet vegetables and herbs. Whether you’re looking for a classic beefsteak tomato or yellow and orange heirloom cherry tomatoes, we try to have something for all gardening levels of experience. For our full detailed catalogue please download our PDF catalogue here (pdf download). You can also view our catalogue online via Scribd YUF 2012 Catalog.

Tomatoes Lettuce Spinach Garlic (Autumn Only)
Beans Peas Strawberry
Beets Peppers Swiss Chard
Carrots Radishes Herbs
Cucumbers Shiitake Mushrooms
tomatoes Tomatoes
Golden Boy: Medium-sized yellow tomatoes
Roma: Classic pasta sauce tomato
Tiny Tim: Sweet cherry tomatoes
Sweet Million: Deep red early maturing tomato
See our full PDF catalogue for more tomato varieties (coming soon)
Beans Beans
Bush Green (Provider): Classic straight green bean
Bush Yellow (Indie Gold): Straign yellow long beans
Bush Purple (Royal Burgundy): Purple long beans – green when cooked
Pole Green (Blue Lake): 6-7″ pods
Pole Yellow (Neckargold): A deep-yellow, long, oval, stringless variety
Pole Purple (Blauhilde): Blue-purple 9″ bean that turns green when cooked
Pole Striped (Rattlesnake): Purple-streaked green pods
Beets Beets
Chioggia (yellow & purple centers): A favourite for Italian home gardens
Touchstone Gold: A sweet yellow beet that doesn’t stain
Bulls Blood: Classic dark red beet
Carrots Carrots
Mignon: A baby carrot variety great for our raised beds
Purple Haze: A striking purple carrot with orange center
Rainbow: A hybrid variety bearing orange, yellow and white coloured roots
Cucumbers Cucumbers
Bush Pickle: Great for snacking, pickling, and adding to salads
Slicing: Classic long cucumber for salads and sandwiches
Lettuce Lettuce
Bambino: Medium-dark green pointed frilly leaves
Granada: Produes deep red salad bowl greens
Selway: Leaves are light green in the centre with dark red edges
Sangria Butterhead: Mid-sized head – thick red leaves w/ light green insides
Freckles Romaine: Glossy green leaves with maroon splashes
See our full PDF catalogue for more lettuce varieties
Peas Peas
Snow Peas: Great for snacking or cooking. Both the pods and peas are edible
Snap Peas: Larger than a snow pea, the entire pea is also edible
Shell Peas: Features large, round, delicious peas
Peppers Peppers
Sweet Yellow and Red Bell: Classic sweet peppers
Super Shepard: Classic Italian garden sweet pepper
Hungarian Sweet Banana: Mild sweet flavour that is great for pickling
Cayenne: Hot red chili pepper used in cooking
Hungarian Hot Banana: Often pickled and used in sandwiches
Jalepeno: Good ol’ tex-mex hot pepper
Radishes Radishes
French breakfast: Oblong red with white bottoms
Easter Egg: Mixed batch, comes in pink, red, lavendar, scarlet and white
Sparkler: red tops with white bottoms make this a visual treat
Shiitake Mushroom Shiitake Mushroom Log
Asian mushroom found in various types of Asian cooking. Requires a cool
location and a good amount of moisture.For more details see our Shiitake Log Fact Sheet
Spinach Spinach
Spargo: Large, dark green leaves great for growing throughout the spring,
summer, and fall
Bordeaux: Dark green leaves and red stems. Harvest when the leaves are
still young
Strawberries Strawberries
Seascape Everbearing: This plant yields large berries from June into the fall.
Swiss Chard
Kaliedescope: This mix gives a range of olours from light green to deep red
Herbs Herbs
Basil: Sun and heat loving plant great for pesto
Chives: Hardy perennial with a mild onion flavour
Dill: Fast growing plant with a mild flavour
Mint: Rapid grower and hardy; perennial
Rosemary: Slow growing herb great for flavouring meats
Cilantro: Leaves and seeds (coriander) are edible
Parsley: Both flat and curly varieties available
Fennel: Does best in a separate pot/container
Oregano: Popular pizza herb
Thyme: Great for drying or using fresh
Garlic Garlic (Autumn Planting Only)
Music: Suited for growing in cooler regions. White skin with purple hue.

Comments



Young Urban Farmers is a leader in the green initiative in Toronto. They were exactly what I was looking for.

Yafa Sakkheja

YUF came by at the perfect time and it was a match made in heaven!

Barb Gordon

We enjoyed lettuce, radishes, tomatoes, herbs, beans and cucumbers.

Charlaine Scadding

Having great tasting, fresh produce, without pesticides was one of the best things about my garden.

Lucie Trepanier