Peoria Gardens, Inc.

Quality Garden Plants for the Wholesale Trade

BACHELOR BUTTON

Organic. Edible flowers make a lovely decoration on plates and platters. Mild in flavor and slightly grassy in taste. Re-seeding Annual. Drought Tolerant. Blooms Late Spring to Fall.

BEANS

Bush Bean. Heavy yields of large, crisp, tender, dark green pods. Excellent fresh, frozen or canned. 58 days. Good resistance to common bean diseases.

Organic. First purple filet bean. Bush bean with a great crunch and holds well in the garden. Dark purple, almost black, 4-5" long with straight, slender purple pods, that turn green when cooked.

Disease Resistant to Halo Blight and One or more races of Bean Mosaic Virus. 60 days.

BEETS

Organic. Heirloom variety. Commonly used for attractive, tasty beet greens. Harvest dark red-purple foliage in 35 days for baby leaf tops; 60 days to maturity.

Organic. Vibrant orange roots with sweet, mellow, yellow flesh. Crisp green tops with pale golden petioles.

BROCCOLI

Organic. Large, domed heads; small to medium bead size and medium stem. Good tolerance to hollow core and downy mildew. Widely adapted; holds well. 95 days to maturity; medium green color.

Organic. Open pollinated. Traditional 3-4" main head followed by a large yield of side shoots.

CARROT

Organic. Uniform, 1.5 x 1", round baby carrots. Intense orange exterior. Tender, yellow orange interior. Sun.

CAULIFLOWER

Organic. Beautiful Snowy white cauliflower with a delicious, sweet flavor and tight curds. Tolerant of bacterial soft rot & downy mildew, and resistant to tipburn. The 5 inch heads and performs well in all seasons. 68 days to Maturity.    

Organic. Large 6-7 inch bright white heads on uniform plants. Sweet, nutty flavor with high yield potential. Spring, Summer, or Fall crop.

CUCUMBER

Organic. Sweet, dark green fruit, many seedless. Variety is great pickled and sliced. 70 days. Resists corynespora blight, cucumber mosaic virus, cucumber vein yellowing and powdery mildew.

Small, round, yellow fruit that is bitter free. Nice size for eating fresh.

High yields. Long and slender fruits with a smoother skin. Best to trellis, as fruits tend to curl if plants are left to grow on the ground. 9-14" fruit. High Resistance to Powdery Mildew and Intermediate Resistance to Downy Mildew.

Organic. Short & thick fruits with striped, medium green skin, & a slightly tapered shape to fit in a pickle jar. Great for pickling & in salads. 5" fruit. High Resistance to Cucumber Mosaic Virus & Scab.

GREENS

Organic. Dark green leaves. Very productive.

LETTUCE

Organic. Colorful blend of several red and green leaf lettuces.

Organic. Colorful, frilly, reddish bronze leaves with deep red margins. Slow grower. Bolt tolerant.

Organic. Glossy, dark red leaves with a substantial texture. Eye catching. Bolt resistant.

Organic. Romaine has long, green crisp leaves and forms tall, loose oblong heads. Great for salads & wraps.

MELON - Cantaloupe

Organic. Unique, 6" melons with a rich sweet flavor. Creamy tan outside with a heavy net. Gorgeous peach flesh.

MELON - Watermelon

Organic. Crimson Sweet produces round melons averaging 25 lbs. (11 kg), with light green and dark green stripes. Fruit is sweet, firm, & has bright red flesh & black seeds.

NASTURTIUM

Organic. Edible flowers can be used to garnish or as a salad ingredient. Mild, peppery flavor similar to watercress.

ONION

Organic. Nice sized, red, globe-shaped overwintering onion. Tolerant to bolting, Fusarium and Pink Root.

Organic. Early maturing, jumbo, globe-shaped, golden yellow overwintering onion. Tolerant to mildew and bolting.

Organic. Extra firm, long storage type, globe-shaped onion. Resistant to basal and neck rot.

PARSLEY

Organic. Vigorous plant with flavorful flat dark green leaves. A favorite for cooking.

PEPPER - Sweet

Organic. Unique & eye-catching variegated leaves with fruit that ripens from green striped to solid red. Sweet flavor & crispy texture. Perfect for eating fresh. 3-4" fruits.  

SAGE

Organic. Hardy perennial herb with gray green aromatic foliage and lilac blue blooms. Good for flavoring meats and poultry.

SQUASH - Summer

Organic. Unique bush plant with glossy dark & light green stripes with a very slight ribbing.

Organic. Smooth, bright yellow curved-neck fruits mature to orange-yellow. Meaty, flavorful interior.

Organic. Loads of slender, straight, glossy green zucchinis mature extra-early.

THYME - Thymus

Organic. French culinary thyme. Purple to white flowers with narrow, fragrant green leaves. Deer Resistant. Scented foliage.

TOMATO - Paste

Organic. Heavy yield of good flavored 3-4 ounce paste tomatoes. Uniform determinate plant.

Organic. Early, large, Roma-type tomatoes. Sweet, classic, Italian paste heirloom.

Organic. Heirloom. Elongated Roma type. Deep red with orange striping. Meaty.

TOMATO - Slicing

Organic. Heirloom Marriage hybrids cross two heirlooms to produce earlier and more fruit, with great flavor and fewer blemishes than the parents. Bright red slicer is a cross of Costoluto Genovese x Brandywine. Well-balanced, old-time look and flavor. Indeterminate.

Organic. Chartreuse with deep lime green stripes. Bright green flesh. Sweet.

Organic. 3" orange red fruits keep 3 months. Harvest partially ripe fruit before the first frost.

Organic. Rich, meaty beefsteak tomato with few seeds. Taste test winner.

Organic. Heirloom. Bright yellow with red stripes. Large, beefsteak-type. Meaty, mild flavored with few seeds. High yielding.

TOMATO - Small Fruited

Organic. Deep, rosy-red single bite cherry tomatoes with a black-purple cast that is bursting with sweet flavor.

Organic. Pink, round cherry tomatoes are striped with yellow and orange and have an excellent sweet flavor.

Organic. Orange, round 1 1/4 inch fruit on long grape like clusters. Fruity tropical flavor.

Organic. Flavorful "two-bite" size tomatoes on beautiful grape like clusters. Disease resistant. Indeterminate.