Gales Meadow FarmGales Meadow Farm will be back at the Hillsdale farmers market on Sunday, March 7th. We will be bringing many kinds of hardy vegetable starts, the kind that can be planted right now. There is no need to wait until June or July to enjoy fresh vegetables from your garden!




Here is what we will have:

* A hardy lettuce mix, including many kinds of lettuce – red and green leaf, romaine, and butterhead. 15 or more heads in one pot.
* Simpson Elite green leaf lettuce
* A mix of Bulls Blood, Detroit Dark Red, and Golden beets and a few pots with just one variety of beets
* A mix of endive and escarole
* Hardy bulb fennel
* Broccoli
* Little Marvel and Dwarf Gray Sugar Peas, both of them suitable for planting in the ground or in containers.
* Garden Sorrel
* White and Purple Kohlrabi
* Spigariello
* Mixed Kale
* Rainbow Chard
* Catawissa Topsetting onions

Topsetting onions?

Maybe you don’t know about the topsetting onions. Each of the tiny bulbs we planted in January will turn into 5-10 red spring onions, But you don’t want to pull them all. As they mature, tiny new onion bulbs will grow at the top of succulent stems. Let those harden a bit and replant them for a super abundant crop next year.

We will also be bringing a few “mini-gardens.” These are gallon pots with hardy greens or lettuce. They do not need to be transplanted – just keep them in a sunny spot and pluck off a few leaves or pea shoots at a time for a salad or garnish.

Check our website (link) for more information about our vegetable varieties and herbs.

- Anne Berblinger, Gales Meadow Farm