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Varieties Available for 2024

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Pots are color-coded to match variety. Tomatoes are indeterminate unless noted as "Det. Semi-Bush")

Main Slicing Tomatoes:

Early Girl Hybrid - 60 Days - Yellow Pots
Cosmonaut Volkov - 65 Days - Baby Blue Pots
Bobcat Hybrid - 65 Days - Pale Green Pots (Det. Semi-Bush)
Moskvich - 60 Days - Green Ruffled Pots - Heirloom
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye - 68 Days - Red Square Solo Pots
Black Krim - 80 Days - Teal Pots - Heirloom

Small-Fruited Tomatoes

Large Red Cherry - 72 Days - Red Ruffled Pots
Pink Princess - 62 Days - Pink Pots
Fargo Yellow Pear - 75 Days - Black Square Pots
Sun Gold Cherry Hybrid - 57 Days - Blue Pots
San Marzano II - 78 Days - Red Standard Pots (Det. Semi-Bush)
Black Cherry - 75 Days - Black Pots
Juliet Hybrid - 60 Days - Teal Pots
Honeydrop - 62 Days - Green Pots
Tropical Sunset - 65 Days - Marroon Green Ruffled Pots
Japanese Black Trifele - 74 Days - Purple Pots - Heirloom Potato Leaf

Peppers

New Ace F1 (Sweet Bell) - 65 Days - Green Pots
Nikita Hybrid (Sweet Bell) - 65-70 Days -White to Orange - Baby Blue Pots
X3R Red Knight Hybrid (Red Sweet Bell) - 57-77 Days Ripe - Red Square Solo Pots
Purple Beauty (Purple Bell) - 74 Days - Purple Pots
Anaheim (Chile) - 78 Days - Blue Pots
Baron (Poblano/Ancho) - 65-85 Days - Pink Pots
Early Jalapeno - 75 Days - Red Standard Pots
Czech Black Jalapeno - 65 Days - Black Pots
Hidalgo Serrano - 75 Days - Purple Pots
Helios Hybrid (Early Habanero style - Hot!) 67-87 Days - Lime Green Pots
Hungarian Hot Wax (Yellow Hot Pepper) - 65-80 Days - Silver Pots
Thai Hot Pepper - 82 Days (to red)- Gold Pots
Goddess F1 - 63-83 Days - Sweet Banana - Yellow Pots
Carmen - 60-80 Days - Sweet Italian Bulls Horn - Pastel Purple Pots
Sweet Banan - Yello Pots

Strawberry Plants

Honeoye (June-bearing) Blue Pots - Winter hardy with large berries.

More Garden Plants

Cucumber - General Lee Hybrid - 66 Days - Red Pots
Cucumber - Sassy F1 - 52 Days - Green Pots
Cucumber - Lemon - 68 Days - Yellow Pots
Yellow Squash - Saffron - 42 Days - Blue Pots
Zucchini Squash - Black Zucchini - 50 Days - Black Pots
Tomatillo - Purple Blush Tomatillo - 75 Days - Red Pots
Broccoli - Gypsy - 91 Days - Lime Green Pots
Broccoli - Diplomat F1 - 68 Days - Orange Pots
Cabbage - Kaitlin F1 - 94 Days (Storage variety, sauerkraut etc.) - Black Pots
Cabbage - Tendersweet F1 - 71 Days (Fresh for cooking or slaw) - Red Pots
Cabbage - Omero - 73 Days - (Red Cabbage) Red Pots
Cauliflower - Purple of Sicily - 74 Days - ( Heirloom purple) Purple Pots

Puple Passion Asparagus Plants

Purple Passion Asparagus - Blue Pots

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We Provide the Healthiest Tomato, Pepper, and Garden Starts Available

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We have been growing tomato, pepper, and other vegetable starts for gardeners across SW Montana for over 20 years. There is simply no comparison between our plants and what is available from the big commercial growers that supply Walmart and other big box outlets. Local gardeners come back each year to make sure they get their garden starts from Covenant Gardens. Try our plants for one year and you will understand why.

How We Grow Differently

Our unique process begins with mixing our own soil from scratch. This means that all of our plants are grown in live soil - not a sterile mix used in commercial production greenhouses. Our home-made soil mix consists of a light, loamy base mixed with compost, aged manure, and other natural ingredients that support healthy plants from the ground up.

Growing with a live soil mix means that we will, on occasion, pull weeds in the pots. This is far too time-consuming for commercial production greenhouses that rely on chemicals, fertilizers, and sprays to deliver plants to the big stores. Since our seedlings sprouted and grew in live soil from the beginning, they are perfectly prepared to be transplanted into your garden. We have also had customers tell use they found earthworms camping out in the roots when they transplanted into their gardens. Our hand-crafted plants are healthy, happy, and ready for the season in your garden.

All plants are individually potted in 3-4 inch pots allowing for extensive root development. We do not use tiny "cell packs" that minimize space for root growth. Our pots are large, and they are color-coded to match the variety list, ensuring that you get the kind of plants you choose.

Why Our Plants Are Better

Not only do our plants start with all natural soil mix and organic fertilizers in a sizable pot, the seedlings in our greenhouse are also subjected to cool night time temperatures and warm day time temperatures in the sun. This energy-efficient temperature schedule reduces our cost of production, lowering the price you pay for premium plants. But more importantly, the cool nights in the greenhouse acclimates the tomato and pepper plants to the typical gardening conditions in SW Montana. It also fosters a stocky, strong plant build that, from the time of germination, is adjusted to the inevitable cool nights in your garden.

In contrast, commercial production greenhouses keep their greenhouses constantly warm and grow plants using many kinds of synthetic chemicals, fertilizers and sprays. This method results in plants that appear healthy on the outside, but are weak in reality; not remotely prepared to the natural conditions in your garden here in Montana. Store-bought transplants are simply unaccustomed to the live soil in your garden, since they have grown only in sterile soil, and fed entirely by synthetic fertilizers and chemical brews. Mass-produced commercial plants are also stressed by the usual temperature swings and cool nights common to SW Montana.

We think you will be impressed, year in and year out, with the results from our naturally grown plants. Have the best garden ever by using our locally grown tomato, pepper and garden plants.