J & L Gardens

J & L Gardens J & L Gardens is home to over 500 varieties of tomatoes and rare vegetables from our rich heritage of heirloom and open pollinated types.

Our farm is in the fertile upper Rio Grande river valley near Espanola, New Mexico. In addition to tomatoes, we take melons and cucumbers, apples and other fruits , along with specialty potatoes and garlic to farmer's markets in Santa Fe and Los Alamos and provide produce to local restaurants. All our garden vegetables and fruit are raised using traditional, natural methods. J&L Gardens is also an

independent breeding and research farm for tomatoes and other vegetables. From the revolutionary Ambrosia line of cherry tomatoes to our latest artisan crosses with wild species we strive to bring the most flavorful and productive varieties to the market and to your garden. For 2014, we have released unique high-antioxidant blue tomato lines, cold-tolerant strains and new crosses of old favorites you will enjoy growing and sharing.

Winter is here - time to sort and store.
11/29/2020

Winter is here - time to sort and store.

This is the one of the hoop houses we use during the winter.
11/21/2016

This is the one of the hoop houses we use during the winter.

I've started the first trays of seedlings for this spring. Most are Siberians. but I am also testing some of my new cold...
02/24/2016

I've started the first trays of seedlings for this spring. Most are Siberians. but I am also testing some of my new cold-tolerant lines.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
01/01/2016

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

12/29/2015

Actually, here is a list of tomatoes, corn, corn, chile and beans we are adding to our catalog. Many of the tomato varieties came from a friend in Belgium and have been saved for generations. Some date from between the wars.
Others were sent to me from Russia and Ukraine.
We added more native seeds from our neighbors in the nearby pueblos. In particular, Rose Trujillo of Nambe allowed us the opportunity to share seed from her family. Trujillo Farms brings wonderful chile, beans, preserves and baked goods to the Santa Fe Market. Rose's tamales, made from corn she grows and grinds by hand herself, are amazing.

2016 ~~ NEW ADDITIONS TO CATALOG
Tomatoes Peppers and Chile
Albertovske Zlute Black Pearl
Ananas Noire (original from Belgium) Dedo de Moca (mild)
Ancienne Belge Habenero de Arbol (hot)
Auria/Zabata Jimmy Nardello
Bandelier (trial) Nambe Chile
Bandny Pasilla Pepper
Beauty King Pimenta Biquinho
Belle de Toggenburg Red Dragon Cayenne
Bibi Cherry tomato Shish*to Pepper (mild)
Black Pepper tomato
Black Strawberry (experimental)
Buratino
Caspian Pink (Kaspiyskiy Rozovyi) Corn
Cesu Agrais Glass Gem corn
Chudo Zemli (Wonder of the World) Hopi Glass corn
Coeur de Boeuf Orange Kaleidoscope popcorn
Fater Rein (Vater Rhein) Moss Rock dent corn
Getman Mazepa Rainbow sweet corn
Giant Italian Paste Zola's (OP ultrasweet)
Glorie de Malines
Gobstopper
Green Apple Beans
Grushovka Anazazi Beans
Krainiy Sever Rose's Concho Bean
Longhorn (trial) Succotas Bean
Lucinda Tecuigalpa Slippery Silks
Marilyn's Best
Markham Magnat
Marvel Striped
Merveille des Serres Other
Moya Noire Job's Tears
Myrium
Novikov's Giant
Orangvoe Serdtse
Pokoritel Serdets (Conqueror of Hearts)
Pum Rim
Reina
Rouge de Namur
Sabelka
Serdtse Ashkhabada (Heart of Ashkhabad)
Shokoladnyi (Chocolate)
Silvoryi
Sladkoezhka (cherry tomato)
Striped Sweetheart
Tonnelet (striped tomato)
Valdo (pear tomato) Zlatava
Wessel's Purple Pride Zolotaya Kanareyka

12/29/2015

Update – Summer 2015
October 3, 2015

It is the first of October and there is the sharp, rich smell of fall in the air finally. We have had a long and dry end to the summer which has extended the harvest of a number of varieties of vegetables. A cool start to the season delayed the seeding of a number of crops. Now it looks like all the corn, chile and squash will make, despite the late planting.

I remember as a kid my relatives on the plains sent a Christmas letter with a month-by-month description of disasters that befell their crops and animals. It seemed like a lost strand of our western myth – a hand turned against the best efforts of decent folk – narrated in a flat Kansas voice. When one planting was lost, they started again if there was time enough. There is something about this business, that brings out the Stoic. Anyway, our season was marked by flood and hail and a number of plants eventually succumbed to diseases and pests. It was a good test of these open-pollinated varieties and of my temper.

Eventually, though, I gathered seed for dozens of new varieties of tomatoes from the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, France and Belgium. Many are old – dating to between the wars. Nearly all were remarkably productive and unique in shape, color or flavor. The catalog is stuffed with new offerings.

I also grew out new varieties of dry beans with mixed results and tried chile and peppers I had not grown before. It is the peppers and corn that have really benefited from our warm fall. In the spring, when we hold the seed blessing and exchange, I will be able to share a number of wonderful crops.

So it has not been perfect, but with the trees loaded with apples and the vines covered in grapes, it is easy to forget the difficulties

This is the best time of the year and as good as life on the farm gets.

We have released a number of new varieties this year from our breeding program and we are looking forward to hearing how...
02/01/2015

We have released a number of new varieties this year from our breeding program and we are looking forward to hearing how they do in your area.
Meanwhile, the recent storm left 8 inches of snow on the ground and we are still a month away planting. The small greenhouse is jammed with 200 plants, including 60 new tomato varieties from around the world we plan to trial this summer. It certainly keeps us out of trouble!

07/22/2014

We are going to farmers' markets in Los Alamos and Santa Fe now with field-grown tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, garlic and rhubarb.
Our first market was June 7th - the earliest we have started the season.

This is our Midnight Select tomato. It is a sister to our Bosque Blue variety.
10/22/2012

This is our Midnight Select tomato. It is a sister to our Bosque Blue variety.

10/22/2012

Jan and I have finished tilling the fields under and planting clover as a cover crop. Today I put in the last of the garlic for spring. We will winter over the carrots and fennel and have started our fall greens. I hope we get some moisture in the next week or two. Everything thing is so dry. In the high country there is no snow at all.

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60 County Road 11
Espanola, NM
87532

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