Hattie’s Garden delivery/pickup service continues to bring you fresh and wholesome food. We are now taking orders for the Saturday, March 19 Pickup/Delivery Service.

We are also open at the Garden, located at 31341 Kendale Rd in Lewes, on Saturday from 9 to 2 for casual shopping. While we keep most items in our inventory, some items may run out and it is best to purchase through the online order system if you want to be sure to get everything you want.

The deadline for placing your March 19 order is Tuesday at 8PM. Otherwise, please stop by the Garden on Saturday during our open hours.

What’s Available through the Online Order System

The following items are available now to order for the March 19 pickup/delivery service.

This week Hattie’s Garden will be offering arugula microgreens, mixed microgreens and young dwarf Siberian kale.

We are pleased to announce that our Vermont Compost soil has arrived. We offer two kinds of potting soil in 20 qt. bags and large 60 qt. bags. There is no better potting soil company that I know of. You may order from the order form, or pick it up from the garden on Saturday from 9 to 2.

• Fort Vee — an all-purpose compost-based transplant soil
• Fort Lite — a lighter version of the compost-based transplant soil that is better suited for large pots and hanging baskets.

We will be open at the garden more frequently as we begin to have plants ready for you. Next week, you can look forward to the beginning of our loose leaf lettuce mix plants, arugula plants, cilantro plants and dill plants.

302 Aquaponics has plenty of aquaponically grown salad ingredients, and beautiful tilapia fish they raise as part of their aquaponics system. There are no chemicals or pesticides in their farming.

AlaskaWild Seafoods family-run business has Alaska Cod, Coho Salmon, Pacific Rockfish, Smoked and Sockeye Salmon fresh frozen directly from the boat and flown to the east coast every week.

Enoch Farms offers a nice selection of sustainably raised, naturally grown, heritage pork products. This week they are adding sausage patties, andouille links and pork neck bones to the line-up we are carrying which includes pork loin roast, chorizo, spare ribs, sausage patties, spicy dinner sausage, kielbasa links, andouille sausage, neck bones, sweet Italian sausage, Chesapeake style sausage, jalapeno and cheddar sausage, and maple link breakfast sausage.

In addition to their cheese offerings, Chapel’s Country Creamery has wonderful free-range pork and beef. Their pork products include large bone-in hams, sweet Italian sausage, regular link sausage, loose sausage, bacon, pork chops, and ham steaks. Chapel’s grass-fed, dry-aged beef includes rib steaks, porterhouse steaks, T-bone steaks, sirloin tip roasts, chip steak, 85-90% lean ground beef, beef marrow bones, and beef liver.

Twin Posts offers wonderful free-range chicken eggs.

Dittmar Family Farms is out of chickens for the season. We expect a new batch in about two months. In the meantime, you may want to try some of their wonderful goat milk creations.

Eastern Shore Kettle Korn is our latest vendor to join our line-up. Based out of Berlin, MD, Eastern Shore Kettle Korn offers a sweet and salty treat, freshly prepared by hand locally in a kettle! They use the very best in premium sugars, non-cholesterol corn oil, salts and non-genetically modified popcorn providing a gluten-free snack. The popcorn is sealed for freshness by using a heat seal instead of simple twist ties. This keeps it airtight so they can guarantee a satisfying crunch every time.

Stag Run Farm continues to bring us wonderful apples that include Pink Lady (crisp, sweet flavor), Fuji (sweet and juicy flavor, with a subtle refreshing tart undertone), Granny Smith (the go-to for tart apple lovers everywhere) and apple seconds in 5 pound quantities for only $5. These mixtures of gently bruised apples are wonderful for those who aren’t too concerned with cosmetics!

Davidson’s Exotic Mushrooms has lion’s mane (also known as pom pom), king oyster (AKA king trumpet), grey oyster, portabella, shiitake, cremini, and maitake mushrooms. This week we are offering a one pound mixture of the healthy exotic mushrooms. The mix includes shiitake, oyster, maitake and lion’s mane.

Backyard Jams & Jellies has a multitude of delicious of jams, jellies (including no-sugar options), mustards and wine jellies to select from. Recently added selections include Beach Plum Jelly, No Sugar added Persimmon Jam and No Sugar added Orange marmalade.

What We Are Planting

Yes, you have probably noticed it is a bit cold to do much planting outside! We will need warmer weather and warmer soil for outside growth to begin. But in the meantime, we continue to build up our trays of new plantings in the hoophouse. This week we seeded plenty of new microgreens for you. In addition, we planted lots of things in pots to be planted outside later, both for our gardening customers and our own garden. We have started arugula, lettuce, swiss chard, parsley, dill, cilantro, snap peas, and snap dragons.

We have started our first round of pepper plants and eggplants and will begin our first round of tomato plants next week. Also for next week will will start many of our warm weather flowers including cutting zinnias, marigolds, nasturtiums, gomphrena, cosmos and bedding zinnias. We can’t wait for the weather to settle down a bit!

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Directions to Hattie’s Garden

Hattie’s Garden is located at 31341 Kendale Rd in Lewes approximately 3 miles from Plantation Road (also known as Rt. 1D), coming inland on either Robinsonville Rd. or Beaver Dam Rd (Rt. 23 South).

Kendale Rd. is a short road (0.6 miles) between Robinsonville and Beaver Dam Road. The house is fifth on the left from Beaver Dam Rd, and has a large wooden fence in front of house with purple trim.

Park in the graveled area facing the fence. If you don’t see us, you may toot your horn. We could be processing things in the garage or working outside in the garden.

Reminder that you do not need an appointment. Simply show up during our open hours of operation. We prefer cash or checks, and do have the capability to take credit cards if necessary.

Yours in the garden,