Annual Plant Sale 2023

Grow with us! Amazing prices, great cause.

PLANTS FOR SALE

Get growing with healthy, locally cultivated plants. A variety of tomatoes, peppers, and herbs grown in our greenhouse as well as blueberries, figs, and pollinators propagated from our own property. Amazing prices, great cause. This sale benefits our non-profit. All money earned goes back into the garden to help support our mission of food security in the neighborhood.

TALK WITH OUR MASTER GARDENERS

Come talk with our Master Gardeners! We are here to share knowledge and support gardeners of all skill levels. We love questions. You can also enjoy our YouTube channel for more. There will be plenty of information available at the sale about caring for your new plants so you don't have to worry about next steps.

WHEN & WHERE

The plant sale will be in the garden on the plaza. This event happens rain or shine. We try to have recycled boxes to help with the transportation of your purchases, but feel free to bring your own containers as well. Our special focus this year is on container gardening and we will be offering up-potting of purchased plants for a donation. We accept cash or paypal.

Gallucci Learning Garden

1401 South G St Tacoma, Washington 98405

APRIL 29 & 30

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

MAY 6 & 7

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

This is a free event. Tell your friends! Check our Events Page for even more upcoming events. We will also be at the Master Gardener Foundation of Pierce County Plant Sale - April 29th & 30th. Come see us there!

VARIETIES

TOMATOES

Gold Nugget - The round to slightly oval cherry tomatoes have a deep-yellow color. The flavor is well-balanced and delicious, and most of the early fruits are seedless. Healthy, compact plants with a concentrated early set. Determinate & heirloom.
Little Napoli - A great performer in containers, this is one of the only patio-type Romas available, and it has disease resistance to Fusarium Race 1 and Verticilium for better garden success. The small plants yield large amounts of tasty paste tomatoes, so gardeners can actually harvest enough at one time to make a batch of salsa or sauce.
Bobcat - Picture-perfect, smooth-skinned fruit have firm, meaty, gloriously red flesh and a classic tomato shape. These impressive 10 ounce slicers load heavily on powerful, strapping, determinate plants. Quick to mature, you can be enjoying Bobcat earlier in the season than most other varieties of this type.
Galahad - Galahad's compact, determinate plants produce buckets of shiny, crimson, squat, 3 inch, globe-shaped fruit that's juicy, sweet, meaty and crack resistant. We are equally impressed with the crop's large, picture-perfect fruit, disease resistance and succulent flavor.
Green Zebra - Always a ravishing table presentation, the 1 ½-2 ½ inch fruit have glowing green skin overlaid with olive and gold mottled streaks. Sure to impress when sliced on a plate and intermingled with orange or black-fleshed tomatoes. Indeterminate plants just keep producing these breathtaking fruit throughout the season.
Taxi - The best yellow variety for short season areas. Bright yellow 4 to 6 oz. fruits are smooth and blemish free. Flesh is meaty, mild and acid free. Excellent fresh for salads, sandwiches or adds a nice splash of color to salsas. Heavy yielder over a 3 to 4 week period.
Gill's All Purpose - A cross between Wasatch Beauty and Pepper tomato, Gill’s All Purpose was bred in 1947 by the Gill Brothers Seed Company in Portland, Oregon. Outstanding yields of 3–3 ½ inch deep red fruit with rich tomato flavor. Determinate plants are quite disease resistant.
Orange Paruche - The quintessential flavor of summer is captured in these sweet and flavorful fruit. This Indeterminate excels in productivity with astonishing quantities of brilliant, glowing orange fruit that are irresistible, and vitamin packed.
Chocolate Sprinkles - As tempting as its well-deserved name, Chocolate Sprinkles is the perfect balance of flavor, appearance, yield, and disease resistance. These bite-sized tomatoes have striking, forest green streaks over deep coppery-red and a delightfully sweet taste. Indeterminate plants produce abundant, thick trusses of the scrumptious, crack-resistant fruit.
Juliet - Small red plum known for being both delicious and easy to grow. These AAS award-winning grape tomatoes are very much like mini Roma Tomatoes – full of flavor and perfect to enjoy either fresh or in a cooked recipe. The indeterminate high-yielding hybrid plant puts on clusters of 1-2 dozen tomatoes at a time.
Tommy Toe - Heirloom from the Ozark Mountains. Excellent in salads or for juices, 1/2 to 1" fruits are smooth, mild, glossy red and range from round to oval in shape. Resistant to Black Rot. Prolific reseeder. Indeterminate.
Sungold - The fruity or tropical flavor is a big hit with everyone who tastes it. The bright apricot-orange round globes are 1 ¼ inches across and are borne on long, 10–15 fruit, grape-like trusses. The vigorous indeterminate vines produce equally well in the field and the early spring greenhouse.
San Marzano - The granddaddy of the San Marzano family of sauce tomatoes. This one still ranks among the richest roma types we’ve trialed and is high in sugars, pectin, and flavor for the very best in sauces, pastes, and soups. The rosy red fruit are meaty and thick-walled, reaching up to 5 inches long, and gather on the indeterminate plants in thick clusters.
Stupice - This cold-tolerant tomato ripens to sweet, red, slightly oval, 2 inch fruit. It consistently gets high marks for taste throughout the summer. Pumps out fruit over the entire season. Indeterminate potato leaf variety.
Lemon Boy - Lemon yellow, not golden in color. Highly adaptable plants yield large, deep oblate fruits, averaging 6 to 7 oz. and about 3-1/2" across. Out-yields all other "golden" tomatoes available. Indeterminate. Mild flavored and adds an inviting color to salads.
Black Prince - A Russian heirloom that is one of the sweetest tomatoes we have evaluated in its size class. The opalescent rose fruit have darkened shoulders, are 3–4 inches wide, thin-skinned, and quite soft. Indeterminate and very vigorous. Seed from a seed saver in the former Soviet Union.
Old German - Indulge in one of these treasured heirlooms and experience the true meaning of pleasure! Routinely weighing in at over a pound and a half, it was one of the largest fruits in our trials. It is both delicious and beautiful with succulent, meaty fruit and golden streaked, reddish skin. Indeterminate.
Heirloom Marriage - These luscious, ruby-red slicers are the result of a cross of Brandywine and Costoluto Genovese, two of our most delicious heirloom varieties. This fusion produces beautiful, slightly squat, globe-shaped tomatoes with the most delectable flavor. The indeterminate plants are ready to harvest two weeks before either of the parent plants.
Jaune Flamme - A gorgeous study in contrasts, with bright orange skin surrounding reddish flesh that is a rare find in heirloom tomatoes! Fruits are slightly larger than cherry varieties, about 2 to 3 oz., with thick walls that still remain tender and flavorful. Sweet, high-yielding and especially valued as a salad tomato for its beautiful appearance. Indeterminate.
Black Krim - A most unusual novelty. Fruits, 8 to 12 oz., are a dark, deep red (almost a shiny black) with heavy green shoulders. Interior is a deep, reddish-green color. Sweet and tasty. Indeterminate.
Hungarian Heart - Brilliant reddish-pink oxheart type fruit is large, frequently exceeding one pound! The fruit of this heirloom is firm and meaty like all oxheart types. Great for paste, canning or fresh use. The crack-resistant fruit contains very few seeds and shows very little tendency to develop cores. Rich tasting, solid flesh across each hefty slice! Heavy production all season long. Originated outside of Budapest, Hungary, around 1900. Indeterminate & heirloom.
Trophy - Introduced in 1870 by Colonel George E. Waring, Jr., of Rhode Island. Sold for five dollars per packet (equivalent to eighty dollars today). Gardeners paid the exorbitant price hoping to win the $100 grand prize at the local fair. Sweet 5-7 ounce tomatoes are ideal for slicing. Indeterminate & heirloom.
Cherokee Purple - Similar to red-fruited Cherokee but much darker. Vigorous indeterminate plants produce slightly flattened, 13–14 ounce tomatoes with a purple cast and a good, rich flavor. Shoulders will remain green when ripe. Indeterminate & heirloom.

WONDERING HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR NEW TOMATOES? FOLLOW THIS GUIDE

FLOWERS

Cosmos: Cupcakes Blush - annual, prefers full sun, not fussy about soil, regular watering, pollinator, deadhead to keep it blooming.

African Daisy: Polar Star - annual variety, prefers a dry soil, not fussy other than full sun. Likes to lay around, needs deadheading to keep it blooming/ pollinator

Salvia Victoria Blue - annual, prefers full sun, two shades of blue (dusky and deep blue) on the same plant.

Standard Geraniums - annual, in a variety of colors: coral, hot pink, soft pink, blue-red

Fancy Leaf Geraniums - annual, bright green and mixed shades of green and bronze leaves, flower is insignificant as foliage is the standout.

Rudbeckia Triloba - perennial, 3-4’ tall plant with very few leaves, masses of single yellow flowers, great pollinator and cut flower in vase.

Marigold: Jester - annual, seed from Ukraine, 3’ tall, ruby red, deep yellow stripes flowers, pollinator

PEPPERS

Anaheim - Medium in size, averaging six to ten inches long. They are typically used in cooking when they are still green.

Hungarian Yellow Wax - The fruit reach five inches long, are tapered, firm, yellow, waxy, and hot. The plants are dwarf, bushy, fourteen to sixteen inches tall, and are quite productive.

Tam Jalapeno - Mild, high yielding jalapenos that are ideal for pickling, stir-fry, or just spicing up any dish.

Mad Hatter - The plant’s vigor, earliness, high yields, large size and awesome taste all contribute to its high score among AAS judges. Mad Hatter is a member of the Capsicum baccatum pepper species from South America commonly used in Bolivian and Peruvian cuisine. (3-sided hat shape)

Padron Pimiento (Pimiento de Padrón) - A chili pepper about 3 inches in length originating from Padrón, Spain. It is typically mild but every now and then delivers a surprising blast of heat.

Poblano - Popular Mexican chili pepper, very dark green in color, ripening to dark red or brown. They are mild, large and are heart shaped.

Serrano Tampiquino - This variety has a distinctive and unique hot flavor! It is crisp, bright and notably hotter than the jalapeño it resembles. Serranos are typically eaten raw, so no need to roast or peel.

Thai, Ascent - Miniature pods with high sharpness and spicy taste. Strong, and attractive, well-branched plant with thin, vertically growing peppers that ripen from green to a flame-red color. Pods from 5 cm long and 1.6 cm wide and with a wall thickness of 1.5 mm. The variety is high-yielding, resistant to diseases. The height of the bush can reach more than 1 meter.

Shishito - very similar to Padron (Asian cousin) great for grilling, more heat if allowed to ripen to red.

Ancho Gigantia - large ancho pepper, mildly hot.

Cowhorn - tapered shape, thick walled 6-9” cayenne pepper, mature once deep red, medium hot.

Baron - large poblano with some heat, great for stuffing

HERBS

Basil: Genovese Italian - large leaf basil. Pinching to create more branching, thus more leaves to enjoy. Must have hot location to thrive. Grows well with tomatoes.

Summer Savory

Rosemary

Bay Leaf

Golden Oregano (Ornamental)

BLUEBERRIES

Bluecrop: Ripens mid, firm berries, excellent for fresh or freezing. 4' - 6' upright plant.
Bluegold: Ripens early, smaller plant with sweet berries.
Blue Ray: Ripens mid, firm berries, excellent for fresh or freezing. 4' - 6' upright plant.
Duke: Ripens early-mid, large very firm berries, that are mildly sweet. Excellent for Fresh or Freezing. 4' - 6' upright plant.
Elliott: Ripens late, medium sized berries. Sweet, excellent for fresh, freezing, baking, cooking. Vibrant fall colors. 4' - 6' upright plant.
Northland: Ripens early-mid, large sweet berries. Excellent specimen plant for yard with nice foliage and fall colors, growing to 4 feet tall.
Patriot: Ripens early-mid, large berries. Excellent for fresh or freezing. 5' - 6' spreading plant.
Spartan: Ripens mid, large berries. Thicker skin make these a great berry for baking and freezing. 4' - 6' plant.