The American Center for Sustainability has distributed over 115,000 garden plant starts since June of 2007 for free to nonprofit projects and organizations across Oregon, including schools and churches, in an effort to support ongoing educational garden projects and develop a more sustainable local food web.

Nonprofit and community-based garden projects committed to sustainable gardening practices receive FREE garden plant starts for planting, thanks to the all-volunteer people-power of ACS!

Below you will find the common names of the plant varieties that ACS will be propagating for the 2010 Plant Project! It is going to be another exciting year and we look forward to receiving your organization's order form soon. As in years past, there will again be starts made available to home-gardeners and local businesses for purchase to support the project and ACS so that we may continue to grow this project in the future. Enjoy!

2010 PLANT LIST

HERBS AND BENEFICIAL INSECT ATTRACTANTS

1 Basil - Sweet : perfect in salads or pesto; 18 inch tall plants
2 Butterfly Weed : perennial, colorful variety grows 2 feet tall
3 Calendula : an annual, edible flower also used for medicinal qualities; need full sun
4 Chives - perennial edible; grows in clumps 12 inches apart
5 Echinacea - perennial, bee attractant and medicinal cone flower; grows 22 inches tall
6 Parsley : hardy and nutritious culinary green
7 Sunflowers : great for edible seeds, making oil, or as a cut flower; produces up to 25 4-6 inch heads on with a 6 foot spread

Fruits and Vegetables

8 Artichokes - Imperial Star : edible late blooming perennial; needs 10 sq feet per plant
9 Bush Beans - Royal burgundy : 24 inches around; 60 days
10 Broccoli - Umpqua : produces 5-6" heads with abundant side shoots
11 Cabbage : large storage variety, produces reddish purple heads measuring 8-10" across
12 Collards - Champion : offer long, dependable harvests with rapid regrowth through the year; 60 days and can be planted 12" apart
13 Cucumbers - Lemon : 3-4 foot tall bush variety; heavy producer of 3" lemon sized cukes at 68 days
14 Eggplant - Rosa Blanca : bicolor Italian heirloom, heavy producer of plump 5" long fruit
15 Leeks : produces 1' upright shanks beginning in August and lasting through the frost
16 Mustard - 45 day spicy Asian green great for cooking, regenerates when cut; slow to bolt variety
17 Onion - Storage: produces large hardy storage onions
18 Pepper - Matchbox Chili : 75 days, squat plant with 2" long fruits
19 Pepper - Early Jalapeno : 75 days for hot, 3" fruits; ripens from dark green to dark red
20 Pepper - Sweet Bell : impressive producing sweet squat fruit that ripen from white to green to red; 65 days
21 Pumpkins - Small Sugar Pie: 100 days, vine structure producing 4-6 7 inch pumpkins per plant
22 Summer Squash - White Bush : 50 day Lebanese variety, robust bush habit, yielding high at 15 per plant
23 Summer Squash - Patty Pan : 52 days 3 foot bush habit, can be picked early through 6-8 inches in diameter
24 Winter Squash - Butternut : 87 day, great variety for storage into the winter, smaller fruits
25 Winter Squash - Delicata : 100 day producer of 1 lb. sweet fruits
26 Tomatillo : ripen from green to light yellow and drop; 77 days
27 Tomato - Black Cherry : indeterminate two bite cherry, delicious at 75 days
28 Tomato - Glacier : early 55 days dependable, early producer, determinate at 2 1/2 feet tall and 3 1/2 feet across
29 Tomato - Bellstar Saucing : 74 day determinate produces 4 oz red round fruit great for saucing or slicing
30 Watermelon - Sugar Baby : 80 days, vines grow 6 feet producing sets of 4-6 mini melons roughly 8-10 lbs each