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Welcome to Birdsong Hollow Farm!
The last FREE
Beginning Your Herbal Journey class with Helga Thompson
will be Sunday, April 29 at 2:30 PM. Please join us!
We offer an enormous variety of beautiful, healthy, and unusual plants for your garden.
Adventurous gardeners all around Middle Tennessee enjoy choosing from our selection of heirloom and other open-pollinated, non-GMO varieties of tomatoes, peppers, other vegetables and garden fruit, herbs and flowers. Our customers come to our farm, north of Woodbury, to select their plants and share gardening experiences.
We celebrate the rich diversity of the plant world and the joy of gardening sustainably. Our plants are carefully nurtured with fresh spring water, sunshine, and natural nutrients, including earthworm castings and kelp tea. We even play music for them (and for us, of course).
No matter what your level of experience, we are sure you will be delighted when you come to visit our greenhouse. We look forward to meeting you!
Spring 2012 Plant List
Please enjoy exploring this website and our sampling of nature’s great diversity. Then, come on out to our greenhouse to select your garden’s plants. We are open 9AM-4PM, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday through May 13, 2012.
The new plant list includes several new kinds of the meaty tomatoes especially suited to cooking, as well as the peppers and herbs that enhance the flavors. Of course, we also have a number of tomatoes perfect for making “ ‘mater sammiches” and slicing for breakfast and salads. I have also chosen a brightly-colored group of cherry tomatoes that should be breath-taking mixed in a bowl or at the Farmers’ Market. There are several more herbs and flowers, too, including ashwaganda, catnip, dwarf sunflowers with amazing centers, Gloriosa and Shasta daisies and many more surprises.
Varieties in red are new this year or back after an absence.
2012 Tomatoes
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Cherry tomatoes-
Reds: Fox, Red Calabash (tiny red beefsteaks!), Reisentraube, Amy’s Sugar Gem
Blacks: Black Cherry, Black Plum, Italian Noire (pear-shaped)
Orange: Amy’s Apricot, Sungold Select II
Yellow: Blondkopfchen, Egg Yolk, Fablonelystyni (tiny yellow beefsteaks), Fargo Yellow Pear, Honeydrop, Super Snow White, Tennessee Yellow Cherry
Currants: Hawaiian (red), Gold Rush (orange), Broad Ripple (yellow)
- Blacks-Black Brandywine, Black Ethiopian, Black from Tula, Black Giant, Black Krim, Black Prince, Cherokee Purple
- Reds: Abraham Lincoln, Brandeva (a Brandywine OTV/Eva Purple Ball cross), Brandywine OTV, Delicious, Druzba, Ernie’s Plump, Goldman’s Italian-American, Hazelfield Farm Red, Hungarian-Italian Paste, Marglobe VF, Moskvich, Mule Team, Old Brooks, Opalka, Porter, Rutgers VF, Tappy’s Heritage, Tropic VFN
- Pinks: Anna Russian, Arkansas Traveler, Cleota Pink, Ella’s Pink Plum, German Johnson, Tidwell German Pink, Ozark Pink, Pruden’s Purple, Royal Hillbilly
- Orange: Jumbo Jim Orange, Orange Banana, Persimmon, Woodle Orange
- Yellows and White: Cream Sausage, Great White, Pike County Yellow, Roman Candle, T.C. Jones
- Bicolor and striped: Green Zebra, Pineapple, Striped Roman
2012 Peppers
- Sweet peppers-
Bells: Bullnose, Charleston Belle, Corona, Emerald Giant, Kevin’s Early Orange, Milord, Morgold, Purple Beauty, Ruby Giant (World Beater), Super Sheperd; Pyramid (pointed) bells: Feherozon Frying peppers: Corno di Toro, Cubanelle, Feherozon, Golden Treasure, Jimmy Nardello, Red Marconi, Sweet Banana; Specialty: Doe Hill Golden Bell, Gambo, Italian Pepperoncini, Red Cherry, Red Mini-bell, Sweet Yellow Stuffing Bell, Topepo Rosso
- Hot Peppers- Aji Dulce, Anaheim, Cayenne ‘Ho Chi Minh’, Cayenne ‘Joe’s Long Red’, Czech Black, Habanero, Hinklehatz, Hot Portugal, Jalapeno ‘Early Jalapeno’, Jalapeno ‘Purple’, Jalapeno ‘TAM’, Rocotillo, Serrano ‘Tampequeno’, Thai Red Chili, Tobago Sweet Scotch Bonnet, Trinidad
Eggplant 2012
- Aswad, Diamond, Early Black Egg, Japanese Pickling, Listada de Gandia, Long Purple, Ma-Zu Purple Chinese, Rosita
Okra 2012
Cucumbers 2012
- Pickling/All-purpose- Arkansas Little Leaf, de Bourbonne, Ellen’s Family White, Lemon, National, Parisian Pickling, Poona Kheera
- Slicing- Super Zagross, Suyo Long, Telegraph Improved
Squash 2012
- Summer squash- Early Prolific Straightneck, Early Summer Crookneck, Kamo Kamo, Lemon Squash, Saffron Yellow, Scallop“Benning’s Green Tint” and“Golden Bush”, Tatume; Zucchini“Costata Romanesca”,“Round Green Italian”,“Tender Grey”, and“White Bush Lebanese”
- Winter Squash- Expect to see a great variety of acorns, butternuts, delicatas, pumpkins, spaghetti squash, and others, including Sweet Dumplings.
Melons 2012
- American melons- Look for muskmelons, honeydews and specialty melons in all shades of green and orange!
- Watermelons- We’ll have several kinds of reds, pinks, orange, yellow and creamy-colored watermelons that you will love!
Basils 2012
- Eritrean, Fino Verde, Genovese, Lemon“Mrs. Burns”, Lime, Mammoth, Purple Ruffles, Queenette Thai, Red Rubin, Sacred, Serata, Siam Queen, Spicy Globe, Thai Magic
Herbs 2012
- Anise Hyssop, Ashwaganda, Borage, Calendula, Lemony Catnip, “Bouquet” and “Fernleaf” Dill, Bronze Fennel, Hyssop, Greek Oregano, Parsley (flat-leaf and curly), Broadleaf Sage, Salad Burnet, Summer and Winter Savory, Silver Sagebrush, Creeping Thyme, Orange Thyme, Summer Thyme, Winter Thyme
Flowers 2012
- Red Bee Balm, Black-Eyed-Susan, several kinds of Calendula, Celosia‘Flamingo Feather’, Chinese Forget-Me-Not‘Firmament’, Gloriosa Daisy, Johnny-Jump-Up‘Helen Mount’, Mexican Mint Marigold, Lemon and Tangerine Gem Marigolds, Salvia‘Blue Bedder’, Shasta Daisy‘Alaska Strain’, Sunflower‘Zebulon’, Sweet William, Verbena‘Purple Top’, Yarrow‘Parker’s Variety’ and others
Early Spring Plants 2012
- Broccoli- Piracicaba, Nutri-bud, and De Cicco
- Cabbage- Copenhagen Market, Cour de Bue, Henderson’s Charleston Wakefield, Golden Acre, Red Acre, Early Flat Dutch
- Lettuce-Bibbs, Romaines, Batavians, red and green‘leaf’ and looseleaf varieties
- Kale-‘Beedy’s Camden’, Toscano/Lacinato, and Rainbow Lacinato
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