Vegetable Seedlings

Our aim is to increase access to the lack of homeland vegetable seedlings available for home gardens in our multiethnic community. Honoring how cooking and eating vegetables from our homelands keeps traditions and heritage alive, we offer the ethnic varieties to our diverse communities. To grow bitter melon, okra, sweet thai basil, bottle gourd, aji amarillo chili pepper, chinese eggplant, lemongrass, luffa, and much more! in your garden this spring, click on the See All Vegetables button below!

Bitter Melon

Bitter melon is a commonly consumed vegetable throughout the sub-tropical world (China, India, Thailand, East Africa, The Caribbean, Central and South America) and is known by various names, such as balsam pear, bitter gourd, carilla, cerasee (wild variety), cundeamor, goo-fah, and karela. Bitter melon is a vigorous, tendril-bearing, frost tender, annual vine of the cucumber family that will grow rapidly to 12-20’ long in a single growing season.