Organic Today - For a Better Tomorrow!

4710 Pioneer Road,

Balch Springs TX

214-348-EDEN (3336)

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Certified Organic Seed Potatoes

It is Seed Potato Time Dallas!

Potatoes are easy and fun to grow!

Limited Quantities Still Available

Grow your own potatoes this year! Certified organically grown seed potatoes from our preferred farmer in Colorado. We've ordered potatoes from them before and were very pleased with the quality.  Pick up or your orders end of January for early February planting in DFW area.

Mix it up by the pound - $2/lb

Small gardens - 5#'s - $9

Multi-family gardens - 10#'s - $18.00

*Farmers - call me for large quantity pricing (214-348-3336)

Purple Majesty

This potato was developed by Colorado growers using natural cross-breeding techniques that somehow resulted in a superspud containing freakishly high amounts of antioxidants. We like that!  (Read more)

Bintje

This was a favorite last year of our CSA members. Produced nicely and tasted wonderful!  It has a slightly gold-colored skin and light, cream-colored flesh with a waxy, mid-dry texture making it an excellent all-purpose potato.

Red Gold

Beautiful, early variety with lightly netted orange-red skin and delicate yellow flesh that cooks up flaky and delicious. High yields of smooth, uniform, medium-sized potatoes under most conditions. Scab- and virus-resistant. A new try for Eden's this year. Join us!

Yellow Finn

Another favorite of our CSA family last year. Buttery, outstanding flavor and texture. Smooth, thin, yellow skin and yellow-fleshed potato produces high yields. Round, slightly flattened and sometimes pear-shaped. 3 inch diameter.

Potato Planting Instructions;

Cut whole potatoes into pieces for large or into quarters for small being careful to include an "eye" on each piece.

Dust cut pieces with dusting sulfur to help prevent rotting and let skin form a "crust" at least 24 hours before planting

Add soft rock phosphate  (10lbs/100' or 1lb/10') and organic matter throughout the  trench

Plant pieces 12-18 inches apart and about 8" deep initially

As sprouts appear and grow, begin to hill up with compost, light soil or even leaves or non-coastal hay to cover all but the tops of the sprouts, to increase yield (coastal hay may contain bermuda grass seeds!)  Some gardeners on a small scale use large wire cages to mound hills on top of the sprouts and keep more compact, but this is not necessary.

Most varieties take about 3 months to fully mature, but you can always dig up "new" potatoes earlier after flowering of plants and small potatoes form - Caution; The sprouts/stems and green portions of the newly dug potato can be toxic - do not eat them! Let green potatoes cure first.

Plant 1#/10' for aprox. 10# yield

Organic Onion Sets - Coming Soon!

At Eden's Organic Garden Center, you'll find everything you need to help you have a beautiful yard, an organic veggie garden, a clean house and more.  You betcha we have liquid seaweed, fish & seaweed spray, compost tea, Garrett Juice, horticultural corn meal, liquid and dry molasses - just whatever the "dirt doctor" ordered.  Farm or large lot sizes available, too!  Give us a call. 

Organic Soil Amendments Featuring....

• We carry a full selection of the locally made, original brand name organic gardening products, including Maestro Gro liquid and dry favorites, including Rose Glo and Garlic Pepper Tea, Rabbit Hill Farm's line of dry soil amendments, Garden-ville, Erath Earth, and others!   

Whatever the "dirt doctor" ordered, we've got it!  And, we would be happy to explain to you how to use it so you get the results you need!

Help For The Lawn......

• Great fertilizers! - Texas Tee, Bioform Dry
• Corn Gluten Meal - For weed prevention
• Corn Meal - For brown patch and other fungi 

Safe, Effective Pest Control

There are lots of ways to control pests without "nuking" the neighborhood, or the house. 

Check out some of these great products.

• LiceBGone & Flea 'n Tick B Gone
• That Orange Stuff!
• Diatomaceous Earth, (D.E.), Sulfur, etc.
• Greenlight has a whole new Organic Line of pest control!
• Live Traps
• Red Fox Urine
• Beneficial Insects
• Beneficial Nematodes

Tools to Get the Job Done Right Without killing your back, or legs, or wrist for that matter! And some fun things to dress up your yard or home - with a gardening and "green" theme in mind. 

• Garden Gloves

• Hand tools

• Rakes, shovels, spades, etc.

• Composting accessories

Muenster Milling Feeds for your critters.  (We're working on replacing the Organic Pride poultry feed with Coyote Creek, a locally produced, organic feed for your chickens.)            

MARKET DAY!

Can't make it to the shop?  Live too far away?  Can't find organics in your area?  Check out Bringing It Home To You or EATGREENDFW.

(sorry market day items are not available for mail order.)