Join us on Thursday, July 25 and Friday, July 26 from 11:00am-2:00pm each day, in Headhouse II on Curtin Road, across the street from the Creamery!
The fall may feel like it is quickly approaching, but that doesn’t mean you have to wind down your gardening! There is a whole new round of vegetables and other crops that can be planted as we head into the fall, and we have a fresh crop of student-grown seedlings ready to keep your garden bountiful through the autumn months. Fall plantings are often some of the most delicious, especially for the brassica family and lettuces, as the cooling weather helps them sweeten up.
Seedlings are $2.50 each or 15 for $30. Please bring a box with you to carry your plants. Accepted forms of payment include cash or check only.
The nearest public parking is available in the East Parking Deck and is $1/hour.
All of our seedlings are planted and grown by our student interns, without any pesticides or synthetic fertilizers, and we are excited to share them with the community! We time the sale to match the planting timelines we use on the Student Farm, so that after a couple days of hardening off at home, they are ready to plant and are timed properly for optimal fall growth. Seedlings available include the following categories and varieties.
Brassicas, Lettuce and other Greens
- Ruby Perfection Red Cabbage
- Faroa Green Cabbage
- Napa Cabbage
- Flash Collards
- Twister Cauliflower
- Black Magic Lacinato Kale
- Winterbor Curly Kale
- Marathon Broccoli
- Green Kohlrabi
- Radicchio
- Bright Lights Swiss Chard
- Red & Green Butterhead Lettuce
- Red & Green Romaine Lettuce
Summer Squash and Cucumbers
- Golden Glory Yellow Zucchini
- Dunja Green Zucchini
- Juane Et Verte Green Patty Pan Squash
- Y-Star Yellow Patty Pan Squash
- Lemon Cucumber
- Marketmore Slicing Cucumber
- Pickling Cucumber
Herbs, Natives and Biennial Flowers
- Cruiser Cilantro
- Bouquet Dill
- Rosemary
- Lavender
- Panorama Mix Monarda Bee Balm
- Echinacea Purple Coneflower
- Magic Fountains Delphinium
- Dalmatian Peach Foxglove
- Double Black Hollyhock
- Big Smile Sunflower
If fall planting is new for you, there are many resources to help you maintain a successful garden, including a few below. These resources outline some of the transplants you can grow, as well as some of the direct-seeded crops you can plant. Also, be sure to protect your brassica seedlings (cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower and kohlrabi) from cabbage moths with netting or frequent inspections— just a few of those little green worms would be hard on small seedlings.
We hope to see you on Thursday or Friday July 25-26 for our Fall Plant Sale! If you have any questions, please send them to studentfarm@psu.edu.