Santa Monica Mountains · 1,170 ft · 2026 Season
Jamie's Garden
A living-soil garden at elevation. Heirloom tomatoes, summer vegetables, companion plantings — grown with intention and no shortcuts.
2026 Season · Heirloom Collection
This Season's Tomatoes →
Santa Monica Mountains · 1,170 ft
2026 Beverly Hills Garden
Jamie's Garden is a living-soil, container-based mountain garden documenting tomatoes, chiles, herbs, flowers, companion plants, and personal cannabis cultivation.
2026 Season · Heirloom Collection
This Season's Tomatoes →
Nightshade · Heirloom
12 Heirloom Varieties
From beefsteaks to paste to cherry — grown from seed in living soil containers at 1,170 ft elevation.
Beefsteak
Brandywine
The benchmark beefsteak. Rich, complex, deeply savory.
Beefsteak
Giant Belgium
Massive pink-red fruit with buttery, low-acid sweetness.
Bicolor
Hillbilly Bicolor
Golden-orange streaked with red. Mild, sweet, almost fruity.
Beefsteak
Mortgage Lifter
Legendary beefsteak. Meaty, mild, productive beyond belief.
Beefsteak
Grandfather Ashlock
Deep red, dense, and richly flavored heirloom from the American South.
Oxheart
Pink Fang
Elongated oxheart with creamy pink flesh and low acidity.
Paste / Slicer
Vintage Wine
Striped paste-type with excellent fresh eating and sauce quality.
Paste
Príncipe Borghese
Classic Italian drying tomato. Clusters of small, intensely flavored fruit.
Currant
Spoon Tomato
Tiny, sweet currant tomatoes. Cascading habit, irresistible snacking.
Slicer
Palemeno
Heirloom Balkan variety. Ribbed, meaty, superb for roasting.
Bicolor
Alice's Dream
Luminous gold-pink bicolor with exceptional sweetness and beauty.
Paste
Super Italian Paste
Large, meaty paste with very few seeds. Built for sauce.
2026 Season · Capsicum Collection
Chiles & Peppers →
Capsicum · Sweet to Superhot
Chiles & Peppers
From sweet frying peppers to ornamentals and superhots — a full spectrum of capsicum grown in containers at elevation.
Sweet · 0 SHU
Jimmy Nardello
Legendary Italian frying pepper. Thin-walled, sweet, incredible when sautéed.
Mild–Medium · 50–200 SHU
Shishito
Mostly mild with the occasional surprise. Classic blistering pepper.
Hot · 5K–30K SHU
Orange Peter Pepper
Famously shaped novelty pepper with bright citrus-forward heat.
Hot · 10K–30K SHU
Black Pearl
Jet black foliage and fruit. Ornamental and fiery.
Hot · 30K–50K SHU
Bolivian Rainbow
Clusters of upright fruit in purple, yellow, orange, and red. Stunning display.
Hot · 50K–100K SHU
Chile Tepín
The wild ancestor of all cultivated chiles. Tiny berry-like pods, fierce heat.
Very Hot · 100K+ SHU
Peach Charapita
Rare Peruvian wild type. Tiny peach-colored orbs, fruity and brutally hot.
Superhot · 500K+ SHU
Big Black Mama
Dark-skinned superhot with serious heat and deep, complex flavor.
Exotic · 1.3M SHU
RED-X
Extreme heat varietal. Grown for the record, not the recipe.
Pollinator · Spilanthes
Toothache Plant
Paracress with numbing, tingly buzz. Pollinator magnet and living medicine.
