Good News! If you cannot find parking in our driveway (it happens) you can park in the street at the back of our house. Our backdoor neighbor has graciously allowed our customers to walk through his yard. Please DO NOT PARK IN HIS YARD! If you come in through the back and don't see us, give us a call so that we don't miss you. It's going to be a great year!
We try to garden as organically as possible. Our plants are fertilized with steamed bone meal, worm castings, epsom salts, mycorrihzae, seaweed extract, fish fertilizer, kelp and alfalfa meal. We DO NOT use pesticides or herbicides. I don't want for myself or my family to eat that stuff and I am sure you don't either.
We accept checks, cash and credit cards (minimum $30 purchase for credit cards please)
Plants We Are Offering This Year:
Tomatoes: We have 371 varieties this year, some very limited. We have some you won't find anywhere else unless you grow them.
Peppers: We are offering 127 different varieties, hot and sweet, plus superhots.
Vegetable Plants: Gourmet Lettuce, and Cabbage for early planting as of March 23.
Flower Plants: We have a LOT of flower plants. Some you won't find at the big box stores.
We have a standing invitation to each and every one of you to visit my garden. You will be amazed how I transformed one of our greenhouses into a sunny entertaining spot. Just call first. I kid my customers that they only visit when they want something! I’d love to share my garden with you.
OTHER INTERESTING BITS
Dates to Maturity
I changed actual days to a seasonal range since our weather is so unpredictable:
Very Early - 54 days or less
Early - 55-69 days
Mid-season - 70-84 days (most of them are mid-season)
Late Season - 85 or more days (late yes, but worth the real estate)
Meet Your Friendly Tomato People
Steve and Elizabeth Casteel
Elizabeth, The Tomato Lady with a Feher Ozon Paprika pepper and amaranthus "Love-Lies-Bleeding". The man in the picture below, is her Honey, Steve, The Tomato Man. I would be remiss if I didn't mention him. After all, It takes two to make this whole operation come together.
My partner in "crime", Steve Casteel. husband extarordinaire, affectionately known as The Tomato Man (or King) as he likes to think!.
Note: This website is best viewed in Chrome. I have created this myself so am not an expert. Sorry about the wait. I am recreating the website, hopefully making it a little easier to navigate the images better. Over all, I have around 600 - 700 images which I had to color correct, resize, and sometimes find if I didn't have one of my own. All of this while learning a new software program. I am actually still working on it but thought I should get what I have done, online. I hope you like it and if you find any spelling errors please let me know. No offense taken.
Home and Business Address
822 N University
Spokane Valley, WA 99206 (see map below)
info@thetomatolady.com
blog: http://thetomatoladyblog.com
facebook: www.facebook.com/thetomatolady
Phone (landline) 509-928-3342 (we don't text)
We are closed for the year and will be open by the middle of April 2025
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These are some of the tomatoes we have offered in the past. I like to try different colors and shapes that you can only grow if you sow them yourselves. This year we have over 365 varieites on offer. It feels really good to know where our veggies come from and what they have been treated with. We can be self-sufficient if we need to be.
One of our customer who was waiting patiently for his wife to make her selections. Such a thoughtful husband, don't ya think?
We want to thank every one of our customers, both new and returning. It was a very successful year and I got to offer new and unusual varieties in both tomatoes, peppers and flowers. I hope all of you had a great gardening season. See you next April!
As you probably know I tend to be drawn to tomatoes that are differnt. Spots, stripes, odd colors and shapes, you name it. This is a new one for us, it is called "Queen of the Night" . Isn't it amazing? Just think how much it will liven up your salad bowl!
This is one of my baskets that I created. It just shows that an edible (tomato plant) doesn't have to be be plain and boring. Here I have mixed a red romaine with with alyssum, lobelia and a "Tumbler" tomato.
Our garden one year. Look at how tall the tomatoes are!
Pie pumpkins, "New England Pie Pumpkin" and "My Love's Pink Oxheart" side-by-side size comparisons. I thought it was funny that this partiular tomato variety was bigger than the pumpkins!
I sell not only the most diverse tomatoes and peppers on the planet but I have ventured out into flowers, veggies and vines. Following are some of the ones I've added to my "menu". IQ Purple Dianthus, Red Velour Wave Petunia and Popstar Phlox .
Below is my Coleus crop of which I am pretty proud of. Above is Cathedral Bells or Cup and Saucer vine. It covered my trellis up to about 8-10 feet.
