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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  • Green Bean Starter Plant — photo: Datadoggieein, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Green Bean Starter Plant

    Snap tender, crisp beans about seven weeks after planting, then keep picking every couple of days to hold the plants in production.Beans dislike root disturbance, so plant the entire cell intact into warm soil without breaking the root ball apart. They fix their own...
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  • Ginger Seed Rhizome — photo: Judethedeus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Ginger Seed Rhizome

    Dig tender, pink-tipped baby ginger in late fall, roughly eight months after planting, with a flavor no grocery rhizome matches.Ginger is supplied as a seed rhizome rather than a seedling, and it is grown here as a warm-season annual because it cannot survive an...
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  • Garlic Seed Cloves — photo: Jon Sullivan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Garlic Seed Cloves

      Plant cloves in fall and dig full, storable heads the following late spring, plus green garlic to pull any time you want it.Garlic is supplied as certified seed cloves for planting, not as a leafy seedling, and the Deep South does best with softneck...
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    • Endive / Escarole Starter Plant — photo: Oceancetaceen - Alice Chodura, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Endive / Escarole Starter Plant

      Cut broad, pleasantly bitter heads for salads and soups in about two months, mellowest when they finish in cool fall weather.These chicories bolt fast in Alabama heat, so they are worth growing mainly as a fall crop that matures in October and November when...
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    • Eggplant Starter Plant — photo: Joydeep, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Eggplant Starter Plant

      Cut glossy, firm fruit about ten weeks after planting from a crop that genuinely thrives in the hottest weeks of an Alabama summer.Eggplant loves our heat and outproduces almost everything in July and August, but it sulks badly if set out into cold soil,...
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    • Edamame Starter Plant — photo: Tammy Green (Zesmerelda), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Edamame Starter Plant

      Pull whole plants of plump, sweet green soybeans about eleven weeks after planting and steam the pods the same evening.Edamame handles Alabama heat and humidity well but dislikes root disturbance, so plant the whole cell intact without teasing the roots apart. Sow into warm...
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    • Cucumber Starter Plant — photo: Stephen Ausmus, USDA ARS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Cucumber Starter Plant

      Start picking crisp slicing cucumbers about eight weeks after planting, then keep harvesting every day or two through midsummer.Cucumbers grow fast in Alabama heat but need constant moisture; a dry stretch produces bitter, misshapen fruit almost immediately. Trellis the vines to keep fruit clean,...
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    • Collard Greens Starter Plant — photo: Evan-Amos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Collard Greens Starter Plant

      Pick big, tender leaves within two months and keep cutting from the bottom up all fall and straight through most Alabama winters.Collards are the most forgiving green in the Deep South, taking summer heat better than kale or cabbage and standing through hard frost...
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    • Celery Starter Plant — photo: Lombroso, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Celery Starter Plant

      Cut aromatic, deep-green stalks for stock and salads in about three months; homegrown celery is stronger flavored than any store bunch.Celery is honestly one of the harder crops in Alabama because it wants a long, cool, wet season and turns stringy and bitter under...
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    • Celeriac Starter Plant — photo: DocteurCosmos, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Celeriac Starter Plant

      Dig knobby, nutty celery-root bulbs for soups and purees after a long season of roughly three and a half to four months.Be realistic: celeriac is difficult in Alabama, needing four months of cool, evenly moist growing that our spring rarely supplies before June heat...
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    • Cauliflower Starter Plant — photo: Coyau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Cauliflower Starter Plant

      Cut one dense white head about ten weeks after planting; there are no side shoots, so time it for cool weather and get it right.Cauliflower is the fussiest brassica in Alabama because it needs uninterrupted cool growth, and any drought, heat spike or transplant...
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    • Rainbow Carrot Starter Plant — photo: Evan-Amos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Rainbow Carrot Starter Plant

      Harvest a mix of purple, yellow, white and orange roots in about ten weeks for the most colorful raw platter of the season.Like all carrots, these resent root disturbance, so they are grown as a young multi-seeded cell to be planted out very early...
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    • Carrot Starter Plant — photo: Evan-Amos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Carrot Starter Plant

      Pull sweet, crunchy roots roughly ten weeks after planting, with fall-grown carrots turning sugary once cold nights arrive.Carrots are a direct-sown crop that genuinely resents transplanting, so these are grown as a young multi-seeded cell meant to go out very early and be planted...
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    • Green Cabbage Starter Plant — photo: Jeffery Martin, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Green Cabbage Starter Plant

      Cut dense, heavy green heads for slaw and kraut about ten weeks after planting, with fall heads holding in the garden for weeks.Cabbage needs to mature in cool weather, so spring transplants must go out very early or the heads split and bolt in...
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    • Brussels Sprouts Starter Plant — photo: Eric Hunt, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Brussels Sprouts Starter Plant

      Harvest firm, nutty sprouts up a tall stalk in late fall, sweeter after the first frosts settle over the garden.This is a fall-only crop in Alabama; it needs roughly a hundred days of cooling weather and simply will not size up before a spring...
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    • Broccoli Starter Plant — photo: Julie Gibbons, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Broccoli Starter Plant

      Cut a tight central crown about two months after planting, then keep picking pencil-sized side shoots for several weeks afterward.Timing decides the whole crop in Alabama: a spring planting must go out very early, because heads that mature after mid-May turn loose, bitter and...
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    • Bok Choy / Pak Choi Starter Plant — photo: spurekar, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Bok Choy / Pak Choi Starter Plant

      Cut crisp white-ribbed heads for stir-fry in about six weeks, or harvest outer leaves early and let the center keep growing.Bok choy is fast, shallow-rooted and quick to bolt, so it belongs in the cool shoulders of the Alabama year rather than in May...
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    • Bell Pepper Starter Plant — photo: Kham Tran - www.khamtran.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Bell Pepper Starter Plant

      Pick thick-walled, crunchy green bells in about ten weeks, then let a few ripen on the plant to red, orange or yellow.Peppers want warm soil, so wait until nights hold above 55F before setting plants out in the Alabama spring. Plant at the same...
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    • Beet Starter Plant — photo: BriannaWalther, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Beet Starter Plant

      Pull sweet, tender roots in about two months and clip the glossy greens for salads and skillets the whole time you wait.Beets are a direct-sown crop by nature and resent root disturbance, so they are grown as a young multi-seeded cell that must be...
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    • Asparagus Crowns — photo: AnRo0002, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Asparagus Crowns

        Plant a dormant crown once and cut tender spring spears for twenty years, though the first real harvest waits two to three seasons.Asparagus is supplied as a one-year dormant crown, not a leafy seedling, and it needs a permanent bed you will not till...
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