The time has finally come! We are excited to announce the 2014 Historic Lewes Farmers Market (HLFM) kicks off its ninth season on the grounds of the Lewes Historical Society Society, located at Third and Shipcarpenter Streets, in historic Lewes, Delaware, at 8 a.m., this Saturday, May 10.

Hours run from 8 a.m. through 12 noon.

Hattie’s Garden and a lot of other great vendors will be at the HLFM every Saturday, beginning May 10th, through the growing season, with our last market scheduled for Saturday, November 22.

What’s Available This Week

Hattie’s Garden, although limited on produce options, will be big on plants for your gardens with varieties of herbs, flowers and vegetables. The cold season has given everyone a slow start in the garden.

Produce

Produce that will be available includes:

[one_half]Triple-Washed & Bagged Salad Greens
– Loose Leaf Lettuce
– Arugula
– Pea Tendrils
– Mesclun Mix: Lettuce, Arugula & Tendrils
[/one_half][one_half_last]Fresh Herbs
– Mint
– Cilantro
– Dill
– Chives
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Plants for your Garden

Please be sure to check out the plant great descriptions on our website.

• Herbs include flat parsley, curly parsley, sage, spearmint, dill and cilantro.
• Flowers include Benary Giant Zinnias, Marigolds.
• And for vegetables, we have several eggplant varieties, peppers and tomato varieties.

What’s Ahead

A large selection of plants will be ready for the weekend of May 17 and 18, including an entire new planting of tomato plants and more flowers.

We will also have French tarragon and lots of basil, including Thai Holy Basil, Sweet Dani Lemon Basil and Purple Amethyst Genovese Basil.

The new ‘Dolly’ Genovese Basil is adorable and produces lots of nice sweet basil.

With the late arrival of spring, Hattie’s Garden will introduce new plants all during the month of May, including plenty of Rosemary ‘Arp’ for those of you who lost your rosemary last winter.

More peppers and eggplants will be ready by May 24.

Hattie’s Garden will sell plants both at the HLFM and at a plant sale to be held on Sunday, May 18 at the garden. A three-hour time frame for the Sunday plant sale will be announced next week and, as always, if times don’t work for you we can make other arrangements to have you come out.

State Fair Zinna Mix

For flowers this month, expect to find Benary Giant Zinnias each weekend as we continue to grow it, as well as State Fair Mix Zinnias, Oklahoma Mix Zinnias and plenty of Zahara Bedding Zinnias. Several types of cosmos: Bright Lights Mix Cosmos & Sensation Cosmos, a nice tall blue ageratum, a tall purple gomphrena and even some lovely lisianthus in lavender or champagne are other coming attractions.

We will keep growing plants all spring and hope you will keep planting!

See you at the HLFM this Saturday.