Hattie’s Garden is open on Wednesday, June 15 and Thursday, June 16 from 10 to 4 for the sale of flowers, produce, meat, eggs, cheese, fish and plants for your home gardens.

We will also be at the Historic Lewes Farmers Market (HLFM) located at the George H.P. Smith Park on Saturday from 8 to 12.

What’s Available from Hattie

The following freshly harvested produce and flowers is available at Hattie’s Garden on Wednesday, June 15 and Thursday, June 16 from 10 to 4.

• Provider Green Beans — Widely used in many kinds of recipes, the ‘Provider’ variety is well flavored and delicious. We always pick them when they are young, and they store well for long periods of time.
• Hakurei Turnips — These sweet, mild white salad turnips are good raw or lightly cooked.
• Swiss Chard — Delightfully tender. By the bunch.
• Sugar Snap Peas — Get them while they last.
• Young Arugula — Triple-washed and bagged.
• Young Mixed Lettuce — Triple-washed and bagged.
• Mesclun — Triple-washed and bagged.
• Fresh Herbs — Italian Parsley, Cilantro and Dill.
• Fresh cut flower bouquets — The first of our Spring blooms are here! Each bouquet comes with flower food, and is guaranteed to last at least a week.

What’s Available from our Other Vendors

The following meat, eggs, cheese, fish and other food products are available at Hattie’s Garden on May 25 and Thursday, May 26 from 10 to 4.

• AlaskaWild Seafoods — Flash frozen, wild-caught salmon, rockfish and cod.
• Chapel’s Country Creamery — Lots of delicious cheese made from milk from their pastured cows.
• Woodbine Farm (an affiliate of Chapel’s Country Creamery) — Pasture-raised pork and beef.
• Twin Post Farm — Free-range chicken eggs from Princess Anne County.
• Chrissy’s Bees — Butterbean and Wildflower Honey.

Plants for your Home Gardens

Its not too late for a tomato plant or two to be planted and we still have some nice ones. We have fast growing cherry tomatoes including Tommy Toe (large, delicious red cherry), Black Cherry, and Jelly Bean (a nice small grape tomato). Get a good tasting heirloom, such as Brandywine or Pineapple Bicolor and we still have plenty of delicious San Marzano and Amish Paste.

A new planting of Benary Giant cutting zinnias, also in mixed colors, is ready for your garden as well, if you dare! They will grow to at least four feet tall with huge blooms of 3-4″, but will need a bit of support, or need to be planted against a fence or wall with plenty of sun. We have Zahara and Profusion Bedding Zinnias in mixed colors ready for a carefree landscaping feature for you. They will bloom all summer, fill in incredibly well with spacing of a foot apart and grow to approximately a foot to a foot and a half tall. They are just stunning, heat tolerant, drought tolerant and disease tolerant. We also have tall (3-4′) Double-Click Cosmos (cranberry and mixed) ready for you. And of course we have easy to grow marigolds in the taller dwarf Brocade mix and the shorter extra dwarf Lemondrop. And don’t forget to 10″ Nasturtium pot for your deck. We also have a purple Gomphrena and a raspberry Gomphrena. These are great for cutting and drying, don’t need to be staked, are drought-tolerant and heat tolerant and require only average soil.

We still have many herbs to choose from. You might like to try our Vietnamese Coriander. It is a great substitute during the summer when the heat makes it impossible to grow regular cilantro. Vietnamese Coriander is actually Persicaria odorata. It has a wonderful spicy flavor with hints of cilantro. It is used in Southeast Asian cooking and in India. This nutrient dense herb, full of flavonoids, is often eaten fresh in salads, Vietnamese Coriander is also used in soups, stews and summer rolls. It likes partial shade and to stay in moist soil. It can make a nice ground cover under trees and is a perennial in Zone 9, so don’t expect it to overwinter in your garden, but you may dig it up and keep indoors as a house plant for the winter. We also have a very pretty variegated Pineapple Mint and plenty of nice Greek Oregano, English Thyme, Berggarten sage and more.

Please note that while we will bring as many plants as possible to the HLFM, our space is limited. The best selection will always be at the garden during our open hours.

You may setup an appointment outside of our regular open hours by texting Hattie at 302-841-1896, or by sending an email to
hattie@hattiesgarden.com. Please indicate one or two times that work for you and she will get right back to you with her availability.

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. The plants will be setup at the end of the driveway and we should be close by. Produce and food is located inside the garage and you may enter through the side door. Just follow the signs.

Yours in the Garden and at the Market,