Herbs & vegetables your flower nursery in Küsnacht close by Zurich
Vegetable seedlings It couldn't be fresher - salad from your own garden!
From mid-March to September, we offer various vegetable seedlings and salad seedlings for your balcony or garden. Not everything has to be put into the ground, some seedlings can also be cultivated in pots as Lettuce, Swiss chard or radish.
If you have any questions, we will be happy to advise you on the phone or in person at our village nursery.
A compilation of all the delicacies we produce throughout the year:
An insight into the range depending on the season:
- August to September: tomato, cucumbers, eggplants, peppers, zucchini
- September to November: pumpkins, catalogna salad, rape
- December to February: cress, radish & Lamb's lettuce
In Spring you can buy seeds for eatable Flowers.
Fresh vegetables in summer
From mid-July to September we also offer various summer vegetables that we produce ourselves. Cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini etc. We cultivate specialties such as the "Küsnachter tomato", "Karrer's Special Tomato" or mini eggplants.
We also offer culinary specialties such as heart-shaped cucumbers or zucchini flowers.
Tomato variety from mid-August
Küsnachter-Tomate ...this is it's real sort Name!
aromatic beefsteak tomato
the sweet flavour is perfect for sauces
Karrer spezial ..our own specialty
large, dark, fleshy fruit
Paola
the salad tomato red & round
as well for sandwiches and burgers our nuber one!
Dattel-Cherry
aromatic, slightly elongated fruits
Cherry sweet
sweet, round cherry tomatoes
the perfect snack for in between meals
Cucumber range from mid-August
Cucumber
long-fruited
Nostrani cucumber
dark, fleshy fruit
Snack cucumber
small, aromatic and great for in between meals
Summer specialties zucchini and eggplant
Green zucchini
Striped zucchini
Yellow zucchini
long-fruited, yellow skin with slightly finer flesh
Zucchini blossom
A Mediterranean cuisine specialty, the flowers can be stuffed and fried for the main course or aperitif
Dark eggplant
long-fruited, deep purple skin
Striped eggplant
rather round fruits with finer flesh
Mini eggplant
extra small purple skinned eggplants the size from dates to kiwis
Peppers
Herbs from the Karrer Gärtnerei AG in Küsnacht
Enjoy the pleasant scent of fresh kitchen herbs from your own garden! In addition to a large selection of vegetables and herbs, you will also find extraordinary specialties.
We are happy to provide detailed advice about the best locations for herbs and vegetables and give useful care instructions.
Autumn & winter vegetables your flower nursery in Küsnacht close by Zurich
Lamb's lettuce
From November to February, we offer our home-grown fresh „Nüsslisalad“, hand cut and available every day.
Not organic - even better: not treated !
A local specialty that was hand made produced and harvested with a lot of passion.
One serving is approximately 50 to 80 grams per person.
Contactless collection is possible by arrangement.
Our fresh vegetables can also be ordered in the online shop!
Pumpkins
From September to November, we offer pumpkins. Butternut, Etamp, Halloween, Muskat, Pattison is the eatable kinds we do produce.
Radish
Every winter, we also have a greenhouse tunnel that is used entirely for the cultivation of our radishes.
Autumn beets
The autumn beets are for the swiss customs carving the “Räbeliechtli” or for autumn cuisine in November.
