Starter Plants

Starter plants offer the perfect head start for gardeners of all skill levels, arriving healthy, well-established, and ready to thrive in their new home with minimal effort. Skip the seeds and jump straight to the good part — watching your garden flourish with vigorous, robust plants that are primed for growth from the moment they arrive.

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  • Watermelon Starter Plant — photo: Fred Hsu, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Watermelon Starter Plant

    Grow a real Southern watermelon: crisp, dripping, deep-red flesh cut warm from the field, the way a shipped melon has never once tasted.Watermelon is a sprawling heat-lover perfectly suited to Alabama summers, and it needs full sun, warm soil, and serious space to run....
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  • Specialty Melon Starter Plant — photo: Wilfredor, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Specialty Melon Starter Plant

    Grow the melons no store carries: Charentais, Galia, Canary, and Piel de Sapo, picked ripe and perfumed enough to scent an entire kitchen.Specialty melons are the same species as cantaloupe and want the same conditions, but the ripeness cues differ by type and that...
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  • Rhubarb Crowns — photo: Dieter Weber (User:Uellue), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Rhubarb Crowns

      Pull thick crimson stalks in spring for the sharpest, most electric pie filling in the garden, tart in a way no other crop delivers.Be honest with yourself about zone 8a: rhubarb needs real winter chill and it genuinely sulks in Deep South summers, so...
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    • Hardy Kiwi Plant — photo: Björn Appel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Hardy Kiwi Plant

      Harvest handfuls of smooth grape-sized kiwis you eat skin and all, sweeter than the fuzzy supermarket kind and ready by the bowlful in fall.YOU NEED BOTH A MALE AND A FEMALE PLANT. Hardy kiwi is dioecious, and a lone female will flower beautifully and...
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    • Currant Plant — photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Currant Plant

      Strings of jewel-bright berries in early summer, tart enough to make the best jelly you have ever had and impossible to buy fresh locally.IMPORTANT: Ribes species are restricted or require a permit in some states because they are an alternate host for white pine...
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    • Cantaloupe Starter Plant — photo: Scott Bauer, USDA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Cantaloupe Starter Plant

      Grow the melon a grocery store cannot sell you: vine-ripened cantaloupe cut at full slip, dripping, perfumed, and sweet all the way to the rind.Cantaloupe is a heat-loving sprawling annual vine that wants long hot days, which Alabama supplies generously from June onward. The...
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    • Zucchini Starter Plant — photo: Evan-Amos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Zucchini Starter Plant

      Cut your first glossy green zucchini about seven weeks after planting, then expect more squash than you can give away until the vine borers arrive.Two plants will feed most families, since a healthy zucchini in Alabama produces daily once it starts, and fruit left...
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    • Turnip Starter Plant — photo: thebittenword.com, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Turnip Starter Plant

      Pull tender, sweet young turnips in about six weeks, and cut the greens even sooner for a classic Southern mess of turnip greens.Turnips form a taproot and dislike transplanting, so this comes as a young multi-seeded cell meant to go out early and stay...
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    • San Marzano Tomato Starter Plant — photo: Goldlocki, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      San Marzano Tomato Starter Plant

      Harvest long, pointed, sweet paste tomatoes prized for authentic sauce roughly eleven to twelve weeks after transplanting this tall, staking-required Italian heirloom.San Marzano is an indeterminate paste tomato that runs six feet or more and keeps producing until frost, so give it a tall...
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    • Roma Tomato Starter Plant — photo: Goldlocki, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Roma Tomato Starter Plant

      Start picking meaty, low-moisture plum tomatoes for sauce, paste and canning about eleven weeks after you set this compact plant in the ground.Roma is a determinate paste type that sets most of its crop in a two to three week window, which is exactly...
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    • Sweet Potato Slips — photo: Llez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Sweet Potato Slips

        Plant these rooted slips in late spring and dig heavy loads of sweet orange roots about one hundred days later, right before frost.Sweet potatoes are sold as slips, which are rooted cuttings pulled from a sprouting mother root rather than seedlings, so plant them...
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      • Sweet Pepper Starter Plant — photo: Kham Tran - www.khamtran.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Sweet Pepper Starter Plant

        Pick thick-walled green bells about ten weeks after planting, or wait a couple more weeks and let them ripen sweet red on the plant.Peppers want warm soil far more than tomatoes do, so hold transplants until nights stay above 55 degrees rather than planting...
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      • Sweet Corn Starter Plant — photo: Dalia fathallah, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Sweet Corn Starter Plant

        Pull your first sweet, milky ears about ten weeks after planting, with transplants giving you a head start and a jump on the birds.Corn is normally direct-sown, and these transplants exist to get you two or three weeks ahead in cold spring soil and...
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      • Summer Squash Starter Plant — photo: Sharib4d, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Summer Squash Starter Plant

        Pick your first tender yellow squash about seven weeks after planting, then keep picking every day or two to keep the plant producing.Summer squash is fast and generous but short-lived in Alabama, since squash vine borers and squash bugs usually take out spring plantings...
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      • Spinach Starter Plant — photo: Nillerdk, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Spinach Starter Plant

        Cut thick, sweet, dark green leaves about six weeks after transplanting into cool soil, harvesting hard before spring heat pushes the plants to bolt.Spinach bolts fast in Alabama; a spring planting typically has three or four good weeks before lengthening days and 80-degree afternoons...
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      • Southern Pea (Cowpea) Starter Plant — photo: HeraldDesa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Southern Pea (Cowpea) Starter Plant

        Shell your first pot of purple hull or crowder peas about two months after planting, from a crop that thrives in Alabama heat.Southern peas are the summer legume that actually enjoys July in Alabama, tolerating heat, drought and poor sandy soil that would flatten...
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      • Salsify Starter Plant — photo: Sarah Stierch, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Salsify Starter Plant

        Dig slender, oyster-flavored white roots for winter soups and gratins about four months after planting this old-fashioned, nearly forgotten Southern root crop.Like parsnip and carrot, salsify forms a long taproot that hates being moved, so this is sold as a young multi-seeded cell to...
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      • Rutabaga Starter Plant — photo: Seedambassadors, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Rutabaga Starter Plant

        Pull big, golden, sweet-fleshed roots for mashing and roasting about three months after planting, sweeter still if a few frosts hit them first.Rutabagas are a root crop that resents disturbance, so this comes as a young multi-seeded cell to be set out early and...
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      • Romaine Lettuce Starter Plant — photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Romaine Lettuce Starter Plant

        Cut tall, crisp, sweet-ribbed heads for Caesar salads about two months after transplanting, or pick outer leaves for weeks before that.Romaine is the most heat-tolerant lettuce type, but Alabama spring still catches up with it, so plant early and plan to harvest before daytime...
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      • Radish Starter Plant — photo: Jengod, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Radish Starter Plant

        Pull crisp, peppery radishes just three to four weeks after planting, making this the fastest thing in the whole spring or fall garden.Radishes form a taproot and dislike being moved, so this is offered as a young multi-seeded cell meant to go into the...
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