HomemadeMama

It’s been a beautifully full week! 🥰 Unlike any other first week of our plant sale so far! Y’all are seriously top tier! 🥇
It brought us so much joy to see so many of your familiar faces and so many new ones, too! Catching up, talking gardening, sharing tips… and the laughs… some of you are pure entertainment and our hearts are beyond full! 💚

With few varieties sold out, we still have a great selection of our organically homegrown veggie plants looking for their forever gardens! 🌱

We are still taking orders and scheduling pickups at our home in Crystal Lake. Just shoot us a message, let us know what to set aside for you and we’ll have it ready when you arrive.

🚨PLEASE REMEMBER🚨
Due to limited space, we will not be holding plants for more than a day. Please reach out with your order when you can pick up on the SAME day or on the next day at the latest. Thank you for your understanding!

Here is what’s available this year:

🍅 TOMATOES ($4)
Slicing tomatoes:
Striped German

Cherry tomatoes:
Sweetie
Sunrise
Orange
Raspberry red
Black
Sunset
Purple bumblebee
Red

🫑 SWEET PEPPERS ($4)
Red Baron
Orange king
King of the north
Big Bertha
Big red
Orange

Hungarian paprika
Banana

🌶️ HOT PEPPERS ($4)
Cayenne
Thai

🥵 SUPER HOT PEPPERS ($5)
Carolina reaper
Scorpion
Ghost
Dragon breath
Scotch bonnet

🪴 OTHER ($3-$5)
Kohlrabi
Eggplant
Mint
Parsley
Kale

Mullein

🌼 African marigolds (yellow and orange)

Elderberry cuttings are:
$5 per one or $20 per 5

🥒 Cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, cucamelons, zucchini and basil will be available starting 5/15.

🍄‍🟫 If you’re interested in fresh mushrooms, we can let you know what we have available from Crystal Lake Mushrooms. We also have our usual goodies available for pickup if you’re interested:

https://homemade-mama.square.site/

We are located in Crystal Lake near Randall and Ackman and accept cash, Zelle, Venmo or PayPal as a form of payment.

THANK YOU! 💚

Hello! ☀️ It’s that time again! 🤩 We have our organically homegrown veggie plants looking for their forever gardens! 🌱

We are now taking orders and scheduling pickups at our home in Crystal Lake. Just shoot us a message, let us know what to set aside for you and we’ll have it ready when you arrive.

🚨PLEASE REMEMBER🚨
Due to limited space, we will not be holding plants for more than a day. Please reach out with your order when you can pick up on the SAME day or on the next day at the latest. Thank you for your understanding!

Here is what’s available this year:

🍅 TOMATOES ($4)
Slicing tomatoes:
Madame Marmande
Raspberry favorite
Raspberry giant
Oxheart
Mortgage lifter
Striped German
Golden - low inventory
Giant Belgium

Cherry tomatoes:
Sweetie
Sunrise
Orange
Raspberry red
Sun-gold
Black
Sunset
Purple bumblebee
Red
Chocolate cherry - sold out

🫑 SWEET PEPPERS ($4)
Red Baron
Orange king
King of the north
Wisconsin lakes
Big Bertha
Big red
Orange
Yellow

Hungarian paprika - low inventory
Banana

🌶️ HOT PEPPERS ($4)
Lemon drop
Cayenne
Thai
Serrano
Jalapeño
Ancho
Poblano

🥵 SUPER HOT PEPPERS ($5)
Carolina reaper
Scorpion
Ghost
Dragon breath
Scotch bonnet

🪴 OTHER ($3-$5)
Kohlrabi
Rosemary - sold out
Eggplant
Mint
Thyme - low inventory
Parsley
Celery
Kale
Brussels sprouts - sold out
Red cabbage

True comfrey - sold out
Mullein

Elderberry cuttings are:
$5 per one or $20 per 5

Cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, cucamelons, zucchini and basil won’t be ready until mid May just in time for planting.

🍄‍🟫 If you’re interested in fresh mushrooms, we can let you know what we have available from Crystal Lake Mushrooms.

We also have our usual goodies available for pickup if you’re interested:

https://homemade-mama.square.site/

We are located in Crystal Lake near Randall and Ackman and accept cash, Zelle, Venmo or PayPal as a form of payment.

THANK YOU! 💚

Who else wants to grow their own food? 💚

With several varieties sold out, we still have a great selection of our organically homegrown veggie plants looking for their forever gardens! 🌱

We are still taking orders and scheduling pickups at our home in Crystal Lake. Just shoot us a message, let us know what to set aside for you and we’ll have it ready when you arrive.

🚨PLEASE REMEMBER🚨
Due to limited space, we will not be holding plants for more than a day. Please reach out with your order when you can pick up on the SAME day or on the next day at the latest. Thank you for your understanding!

We will be unavailable and unable to get to your messages on 5/11 all day.

Here is the updated list:

🍅 TOMATOES ($2-$4)
Slicing tomatoes:
Orange slicing
Striped German

Cherry tomatoes:
Large (red)
Sunrise
Orange
Venus (orange) dwarf
Mascot (red) dwarf
Cherrola (red long trusses)

🫑 SWEET PEPPERS ($3)
Wisconsin lakes

Hungarian paprika

🌶️ HOT PEPPERS ($1-$3)
Thai

🥵 SUPER HOT PEPPERS ($3)
Scorpion

🪴 OTHER ($1-$4)
True comfrey
Basil

🥒 Cucumbers ($3)
Persian (snacking)
Sumter (pickling)

🍄‍🟫 If you’re interested in fresh mushrooms, we can let you know what we have available from Crystal Lake Mushrooms.

We also have our usual goodies available for pickup if you’re interested:

https://homemade-mama.square.site/

We are located in Crystal Lake near Randall and Ackman and accept cash, Zelle, Venmo or PayPal as a form of payment.

THANK YOU! 💚

Yesterday was a beautiful day to learn all about composting! ☀️💚🌎💚☀️

We hosted our fourth annual field trip and taught the children (and their adults) about composting! This was a group of 3rd and 4th graders from the Indian Prairie Elementary School’s Environmental Club - a wonderful group of children lead by some amazing teachers and staff! The club focuses on teaching children ways to respect our home 🌎 and implementing ways to leave it better than they found it. 💚

Seeing the children engaged, full of wonderful ideas, asking questions and of course playing in some “dirt” filled my heart with so much joy as it does every year! 💚

Our project for this week is to harvest the ready (2 year old) compost and move anything that wasn’t completely broken down into last year’s bin. The empty bin is where we will begin collecting our scraps until next spring and repeat the process again so that we can continue supplementing our garden soil and grow more food! 😋

PS. With everything we do and grow in our garden, composting is by far my favorite part of the entire operation! To me, it’s downright magical 💫 and is the major reason why between composting, reducing, reusing, upcycling and recycling, on average, we only create one garbage bag of trash per week. 🌎