The Alchemist Backyard

06/22/2024

With so much genovese , one can make a lot of . Some with the recipe to try:
- substitute Italian basil for another species
- try something else than pine nuts
- add spices
Etc
What's your pesto recipe?

06/12/2024

Free plant giveaway!!

Location: end of doylin dr in Cary

06/03/2024

Welp... the red monster while clearing the land! Saw it coming and stopped before it did. The radiator got with pollen and seeds.

05/29/2024

It's not even it's !! Lettuce leaf basil!

05/10/2024

We still have a few for sale! Message us if you still need some as we won't be back at the market.
Cherry tomato:
- black cherry
- sungold bumblebee
Sweet pepper:
- habanada
- Venezuelan tiger
- Jimmy Nardello's
- Trinidad perfume
Hot pepper:
- buena mulata
- yellow fatalii
- some other rare species (low amount)
Marigold:
- french double dwarf
- queen Sophia
- strawberry blonde
Basil:
- lime
- lettuce leave
- Holy (tulsi)
$4 or 3 for $10 (mix and match)
Pick up in Cary near cary Towne center.

04/28/2024

Shout out to (beet curtido) and (fresh lettuce)! That goes great on chicken tacos!
Come check them out Saturday 8am to 12pm
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04/20/2024

It's crazy what you can fit back there!

03/31/2024

What is the secret to make a greenhouse smell fantastic?
1) have a citrus plant bloom in it.
That's is, that's the secret.

03/31/2024

We got Marigold y'all!!!
French double dwarf
Queen Sophia
Strawberry gold ( )

10/20/2023

Preparing for the (Sat 8am 12pm)! Come and try , , , malabar spinach.... we also have fresh of the ground !!!

08/24/2023

Some of the from the garden! Buena muleta (purple), fatalii (yellow and red), trinidad perfume (yellow) and Venezuelan tiger (red). A bit of a to see red fatalii here. Maybe a ?

04/29/2023

As I am preparing for the (Sat morning 8-12), I got a couple of nocturnal visitors very interested in what I was doing...

04/22/2023

We are at this morning. Come get your before the rain!

04/14/2023

Hey everyone,
I have a lot more varieties than I can transport to the market so I would like to try something. I will post the list of available plants on Thursday and if you see something you want, post it in the comment and I'll make sure I have some available on the Saturday market. The list will change over time as new plants become available or stocks get depleted.
This is for the 15APR2023 Cary farmer's market:
SWEET PEPPER:
- Habanada
- Lesya
- Petit Marseillais
- Paradicsom Alaku Sarga Szentes
- Venezuelan Tiger
- Aji Dulce de Puerto Rico
- Trinidad perfume
- Shish*to
- Jimmy Nardello’s
- Pimento
HOT PEPPER:
- Aji Mango
- Aji Pineapple
- Aji lemon drop
- Yellow Fatalii
- Kang Starr Lemon Starburst
- Malaguetta
- Buena mulata
- Chocolate habanero
- Red Habanero
- Rheza
FLOWER:
- Elena’s rojo Red Amaranth
- Thai Roselle Hibiscus
- French double dwarf marigold
- Yellow brown irises (1Ga pot)
OKRA:
- Jing Orange
- Clemson spineless
TOMATOE:
- Garden peach (medium size)
- Black Cherry (cherry size)
- Sungold bumblebee (cherry size)
- Orange hat (bush dwarf tomato)
CUCURBITA:
- Red Kuri squash (pumpkin)
- Sweet Jenny (cantaloupe)
MISC:
- Malabar spinach (green)
- Sorghum
- Egyptian spinach (Molokhia)

04/13/2023

Hello
We will be back at the Cary Downtown Farmers Market Saturday morning! This will be the our first market of the year.
We will have plenty of very weird but awesome plants so save us space in your garden!

03/28/2023

I was featured in voyage raleigh!

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11/17/2022

In case you are wondering how much banana trees need, I forgot I put some in the crawlspace last winter... 🤨😮‍💨🤦‍♂️🍌

09/23/2022

Things just got very !

09/22/2022

Some very good ressources, all bundled up on one page! :)
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09/19/2022

Bunc of orange Canna lillies for sale
PM me!

09/19/2022

Pain in the rear to grow but very ! Lesya sweet pepper!

09/16/2022

New off a ! Can you spot the hydrolic fluid puddle?

08/27/2022

It's moving!

08/13/2022

Stay tuned...

05/01/2022

A test with cattle panels to grow and !

04/08/2022

We will be at tomorrow from 8AM to 12PM! It's planting season so we will have tons of weird and rare plants (peppers tomatoes eggplants)!

03/23/2022

Feeling like a cartoon clearing this place! It's for the best though! will start soon!

03/19/2022

And so it started!

03/17/2022

Lots of (up potting) going on right now!

02/06/2022

Still a lot of work to do but you get the idea... :)