People often ask me what to grow to get the best value from a 4‘x4’ MinifarmBox™. So here it is – 5 super productive, organic summer varieties to maximize the dollar value of your harvest.I didn’t include Tomatoes in the seed collection because they’re tricky to grow from seed, especially for beginners. Buy 4” seedlings at your local nursery. Look for Stupica, Brandywine, Mortgage Lifter and Oxheart. These heirlooms get fantastic yields. Cherry Tomatoes are also great value because they produce for a more prolonged period of time than the vining tomatoes.
The Cash Crop collection contains 5 prolific organic varieties including Purple Beauty Peppers, Mesclun Salad Mix, Yellow Crookneck Squash, Eggplant Rosa, and Genovese Sweet Basil.
With your tomatoes, this collection will produce up to $160 worth of garden fresh, organic produce in a single season. That’s your 4‘x4’ MinifarmBox™ paid for in just one crop!
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Planting layout for a 4‘x4’ MinifarmBox™
Plant the variety and number of plants indicated on the layout. For the mesclun mix, just sprinkle the seeds in the area per instructions on the seed pack. For a 4’x8’ MinifarmBox™ you can double up on everything.
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Purple Beauty (Capsicum annuum) This lovely, purple hued, stocky bell pepper is one of my favorites. The plants are very compact yet amazingly productive. Unlike most peppers which start out green, this one starts out purple, and yields an abundance of crisp, succulent, 4-lobed, thick walled fruit. |
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Mesclun Salad Mix This Seeds of Change Classic is an abundant potpourri of color, shape, taste, and texture. Harvest a new combination each day. Early greens (Arugula, Purple Wave Mustard, Persian Garden Cress, Red Russian Kale, and Très Fin Endive) complement an assortment of lettuces (Brune D’hiver, Merlot, Red Salad Bowl, Formidana, and Simpson Black-Seeded). |
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Eggplant Rosa Bianca (Solanum melongena) This gorgeous white and pink blushed Italian variety has a delicate, mild flavor, creamy consistency, and no bitterness. The Rosa Bianca produces a great yield of teardrop shaped eggplants 4-6″ long, 4-5″ diameter. |
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Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash(Cucurbita pepo) Easy-to-grow and deliciously tender, this yellow summer squash has been an heirloom favorite for over 150 years. An abundant producer of yellow-skinned, white-fleshed fruit, they are perfect lightly steamed, with a little olive oil or butter and shredded basil leaves. Yum! |
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Genovese Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum) I call this classic Italian heirloom the ‘Gerry Bruckheimer’ of Basil because it’s such a huge producer. You’ll get bunches of continuous aromatic leaves bursting with sweet, liquoricy flavor. |
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