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Welcome to the Millennium Farms website. Here you can find vegetable, herb and fruit plants
like you remember from your family's garden years ago. Our motto is: "Where flavor comes first."
June 13, 2011 Update
Thank you for another great season. The nursery is now closed, and we won't
be at Farmer's market until next season. Our plants in the ground are looking really good at theis point in the summer,
hopefully your's are too. Should you have any questions about your plants during the summer feel free to call the
887-4485 number and we'll get back to you.
June 8, 2011 Update
The season is coming to a close
as this Sunday June 12 will be our last day open for the nursery this season. There is a very good chance we will finally
have a produce stand open here at the farm this summer, so keep looking here for announcements in the near future.
May 18, 2011 Update
Kozy Coats and Plastic Mulch are back in stock! Now only $4 each (versus 3 for $20 everywhere
else!) for the mulch and $8 or $12 for the 18" wide and 36" wide sheets of mulch.
Turn your raised bed into a walk-in hoop house greenhouse for less than $100 and triple the production from that
bed! Laying Tomatoes Down or Planting Straight Down? See the new additions on our Planting Tips page!
The Nursery is open with our usual hours (Mon - Fri 12pm -5pm, Sat Sun 10am - 3pm. We have
our booth at the Vancouver Farmer's Market again on Saturdays and Sundays and those
hours are 9am - 3pm Sat and 10am - 3pm Sun. We're using the old 360-887-4485 phone number
again. (The old 360-263-4489 number will not pick up). The plants look as good at this point as we have seen
them in many seasons...and the best early selection we've had in 10 years, including gallon-sized AND THREE GALLON-SIZED
pots of: Sungold, Supersweet 100, Juliet, Moskvich, Stupice, Early Girl, Cherokee Purple, Roma, Better Boy, Celebrity,
Brandywine, Willamette, among others. The one and three gallon-sized ones, are going fast so.... We
have some very interesting additions to both the Tomato and Pepper lists which are up now. New
Girl (the best new early tomato we've seen), Big Zac, Mexico, Great White, Big Zebra (the original-sized
Green Zebra), Jaune Flamme, Nebraska Wedding; Padrone, Hinklehatz, Bulgarian Carrot and Nosegay
peppers, among others - more than we've had in many years. Check out our updated and greatly expanded
2011 Vegetables, 2011 Herbs/Perennials/Hostas and 2011 Berries/Grapes/Melons pages. With the Tomato and Pepper Lists,
essentially everything we grow!
The Kozy Coats, red mulch and Sea Magic Kelp powder are back in
stock; we are awaiting resupply of the 4 foot square cages. We're working on having a stable supply of the 7
foot monster tomato cages, so let us know if you are interested. Yes, gardeners should be taking advantage of this cool
El Nino Spring we're 'enjoying'. Put in as large of plants as you can find as early as you can and
especially put in later-season ripening plants BUT ONLY WITH active frost protection; you
can almost guarantee that we'll have at least two more frosts before the first week of May. Use the effective Kozy
Coats or plastic-wrapped tomato cages with water bottles inside. See Kym Pokorny's insightful article discussing them on the Oregonian's web site.
The back to back winner of the West Coast's largest tomato taste contest. In 2004 AND 2005 the classic heirloom tomato
Pineapple won Territorial Seeds' Tomato Tasteoff, which is a double-blind taste where the judges cannot see nor ask
questions about the tomatos they sample. It's strictly won on flavor and Pineapple won it two years running; a feat unlikely
ever to happen again. Yes they really are that big, and have that ohmigosh flavor...Old German is thought to be a related
heirloom tomato, as it is a red base with yellow and orange versus the yellow base with red and orange of the Pineapple...both
stellar tomatoes!
Some folks don't believe how much our plants grow. Below are some photos from Tom Lipman in Hillsdale which will
show you how fast (and how big) they grow... Thanks a lot Tom! And take a look at the last photo...all of that in JUST ONE
DAY'S harvest!
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