Abundant Acres Growers


More than 325 heirloom varieties of plants offered in 2009!
Heirloom Tomato Plants   Heirloom Pepper Plants
Heirloom Eggplant   Heirloom Garlic
Heirloom Sweet Potato Plants

Herb Plants

Updated for 2009
Now accepting orders off the Southern Collection page only.
PLEASE READ THE ORDERING INFORMATION CAREFULLY prior to placing your order.

Feel free to e-mail with any questions.
  abundantacres@yahoo.com

We offer more than 180 varieties of tomato plants, about 60 varieties of pepper plants, and 19 varieties of eggplant.  We sell only open-pollinated (non-hybrid) and heirloom varieties because we care about wholesome, healthful foods, free of human tinkering. We love the sense of continuity we feel with growers of past generations, whenever we harvest heirloom produce in our own garden! We enjoy growing crops that have been saved by generations of growers because they have genuinely good characteristics that have been and continue to be of value to gardeners like us!  And like so many other gardeners, we feel that heirloom varieties often taste better than the rigid faux-veggies that have been foisted upon unwary consumers for the convenience of big agri-business!  So we support taking control over our diet, health, and lives....one pesticide-free heirloom plant at a time!



TOMATOES: We continue to offer a superb selection of  Heirloom Tomato varieties, including quite a few that, we believe, are to be found nowhere else.

EGGPLANT: We offer a great selection of Heirloom Eggplant varieties this year. Many are available as plants nowhere else that we know of!

PEPPERS: We offer about 60 varieties of Heirloom Peppers, featuring both sweet and hot types.

SWEET POTATOES: We expect to offer more varieties of Heirloom Sweet Potato starts this year, for shipping starting in late April.

GARLIC: We will have several varieties of Heirloom Garlic available in the fall, harvest permitting.

RARE SOLANUMS: We offer a page of unusual Solanum Family plants, some of them quite rare and all of them fascinating!  Our line-up includes some very rare (non-commercially available) tomato plants, as well as little-known eggplant relatives, Nicotianas (tobaccos and ornamental tobaccos), Brugmansias, Datura, Tree Tomato, and others.

HERBS:  We're really excited about our numerous new listings in the herb category, including several traditional dying herbs!

CUSTOM GROWING: Don't see that "must have" variety in our regular offerings?  We're happy to do custom sowings of unlisted varieties, often at no extra charge!  But you must order early enough to allow the plants to reach shipping size.  More Information

OTHER PLANTS:  We've added a new page of offerings!  Found here will be a miscellany of fascinating and useful plants that have captured our interest or affections, but that really belong in no other category on this site.  Most are old garden friends, things like Jerusalem Artichoke or Comfrey.  Others will be newer addenda to North American gardens:  Bolivian Sunroot  (Yacon)  and probably others.   And finally, we include a few rare old varieties of Heirloom Flowers, once common in our great-grandparents' gardens  but now exceedingly rare.



IMPORTANT LINKS WITHIN OUR SITE...

NEW! OTHER PLANTS      A new page, with miscellaneous plants that belong nowhere else on our site.  We are growing a few flowers, Jerusalem Artichoke, Comfrey, Yacon,  and others as they present themselves to our horticultural attentions!

 JUST FOR SOUTHERN GARDENS  We have retained our page just for Southern gardeners.  We offer varieties for the late-summer planting window, with ordering for these starting late June, for shipment in late August into September.

PLANT CARE INSTRUCTIONS  Detailed instructions on unpacking, acclimatizing and growing your Heirloom vegetable plants.

HOW WE GROW OUR HEIRLOOM VEGETABLE PLANTS  A bit about our cultural practices. We use only natural products, and no chemical pesticides or fertilizers.

ORDERING INFO  Details about doing business with Abundant Acres.


LINKS TO OUR FRIENDS' SITES...

SAPPINGTON FARMERS MARKET      The only farmer-owned grocery store in Missouri, featuring naturally-grown local produce, meats, herbs, plants and a great deal more.  A beautiful green market in the St. Louis area!

JOHNO'S GARDEN BLOG New gardening blog written by a good gardening buddy of ours, John Graham, of northern Arkansas.  Detailed and witty articles of gardening how-to, horticultural facts, garden philosophizing and more.

OMMAS AARDEN HEIRLOOM SEED Ommas Aarden is Dutch for Grandmother's Earth.  A small farm that's working on sustainability, seed-saving, local food production, etc.

ROGUE HOES   Our friends, Larry and Phyllis Pierce of Rogue Hoe Distributing, sell the nicest handmade hoes we've ever used!  Indispensible in the garden!

LITTLE CREEK FARM   Some really nice all-vegetable soaps, handmade by our friend Sunny Gogel. Sunny has been stirring up batches of herbal soaps and sundries in her kitchens since 1993.  See her website for information on these gentle fragrant soaps and other fine products, all of which grew out of, and reflect, her love of gardening.

THE GARDENER'S RESOURCE   Everything for the gardener! Resources, information, directories, tools, calculators, contests, articles, photos, video, citizen science, web specials and more.