Plant sale was madness! They were very well organized but hundreds of people. Apparently I needed to be there at 7:30 to be near the front of the line. We arrived at about 8:30 (opened at 9) and we’re at least 150 back in the line
But what beautiful plants!
We found most of what we wanted. The Brazilian Starfish peppers apparently went really quickly. My friend who was there at 7:30 didn’t even get one. Shiso was gone too. We got
African blue basil: the best basil! Not as sweet as a Genovese or other Italian, it’s a culinary workhorse. Great in sauces, mixed drinks, and on pizza. Good sub for Thai basil. Doesn’t change taste when the flowers bloom! So you can enjoy it for cooking while the bees go nuts for the flowers. We’ve had hundreds of bees at a time before. It grows in a pot out front with drip irrigation from spring to early December
Amethyst Improved Basil: this is a new one for us. It’ll go in a pot near the raised bed.
Parsley Giant of Italy
A chive nelly because it looked cute
Eva Purple Ball. Smallish tomato supposed to grow well here. A new one and second choice tomato. I really wanted the Bloody Butcher, but they didn’t survive the recent frost.
Tasmanian Black hybrid pepper. New one for us. Supposed to be hybrid between habanero and tasmanian black. Supposed to ripen to purple and have a sweet fruity flavor with 30k to 70k SHU. Mostly for my spouse- I’ll have issues with that heat
Shishito: these grew well for us and were delicious in everything from stir fry to fajitas. Great pickled
Ubatuba Cambuchi. A Brazilian sweet pepper. I wanted Mad Hatters but cannot find them (probably need to order seeds online). This one seems similar, sweet with a little heat. They should be just as cute as the Mad Hatter

Lesya pepper. Impulse buy since we couldn’t get the Brazilian Starfish. Ukrainian sweet pepper. New to us. Shaped like a heart
We plan on some string beans, carrots, a chocolate mint (in a pot!!), and just a few strawberries.
Sigh. Cat helped me post before I was ready.
Nonfood plants
Milkweed tropical (I cut down in September)
Milkweed Pleusry
Catnip (easily grown from seed but it was $3 and supports the garden)