Category Archives: Vegetables
Squash Winter Lakota
Plant breeders have recreated a stunning winter squash once prized by the Sioux but long lost to cultivation. Fine-grained orange flesh is sweet and nutty. Mature fruits are 8″ x 9″ and weigh 5-7lbs..
Cover Crop Warm Climate
This organic cover crop will be very successful in warmer climates containing 70% winter grain rye and 30% field (Austrian) winter pea. The mix is a balance of rapidly growing winter rye for erosion control and weed suppression plus Austrian
Simply Salad Wonder Wok Mix
Including mustards kale and bok choy these greens are prime candidates for salads stir-fries and braising. A delicious addition to Burpees popular Simply Salad collection.
Squash Gourd Ornamental Luffa
Grow these squash for its fibrous flesh and when dried you’ll have the best bath sponges ever! Harvest at 2″ long for delectable baby vegetables or up to 7″ long for drying into sponges. Needs at least 90 days to
Cucumber Suyo Long
Suyo Long is a traditional variety from China that offers an abundance of delicious burpless crispy cucumbers. Growing to 16″ long on vigorous vines the sweet ribbed fruits can be picked at any stage from very young to fully mature.
Pumpkin Musquee de Provence
A beautiful heirloom from the south of France with large 20 lb. flattened fruits that are heavily ribbed. Green when immature they turn a lovely deep brown when fully ripe. The deep orange flesh is a particular favorite of chefs
Endive Galia Frisse
With its compact head and finely cut leaves this frisse is well suited for small gardens. The pale sweet inner leaves of Galia are superb topped with a colorful fruity dressing.
Cauliflower Snowball Y Organic
An early maturing snow white high quality hybrid from France suitable for both spring or fall plantings.
Rutabaga Burpee’s Purple Top
Large smooth globe-shaped roots with deep purplish-red tops above ground and light yellow below. Sweet fine-grained yellow flesh turns bright orange when cooked. Prefers cool weather and is best grown as a fall crop. Ready 90 days after seed sowing.
Tomato Red October Hybrid
The first long shelf life tomato with the indeterminate plant habit that goes hand in hand with top-notch taste. Big 8 oz. red fruits can hang a long time on the vine without softening or losing flavor. Harvested fully ripe
Parsnip Hollow Crown
This parsnip develops a sweet nutty flavor after frost. Mature roots are 12″ long and 3″ thick. Does best in deeply prepared soil.
Microgreens Burpee’s Mix
Harvesting the delicate smallest days-young shoots of this varied blend of vegetables provides an explosive flavor burst for topping fresh salads roasted root vegetables and any meat dish. An easy to grow mix of 20% Beet Detroit Red 20% Cabbage
Tomato Baby Boomer Hybrid
This summer get ready for the invasion of the cherry tomatoes. Wildly prolific each determinate patio-ready bush unleashes a bumper crop of 300 little sweeties bursting with great big flavor. Whorling plants yield up 1″ 1 oz. cherries right until
Eggplant Black Beauty Organic
Over 100 years old this 1902 Burpee introduction was an immediate hit because the plants ripened perfect fruits dramatically earlier than other varieties. It became the common market eggplant of today. Harvested fresh however makes all the difference. Certified Organic
Squash Winter Early Acorn Hybrid
Productive plants bear five large 5″ dark green fruits. Orange-yellow flesh is sweet nutty and has a smooth texture. Burpee bred and proven tops for performance flavor and wide adaptability. 25 seeds per packet will plant 6 groups.
Turnip Purple Top White Globe
Turnip lovers prize its deliciously sweet and tender white roots. The turnips are often 4″ and sometimes 6″ across handsomely blushed with pink to purple at the crown. Young leaves make the classic cooked ‘southern greens’.
Garlic Sonoran
Sonoran Garlic produces plump squat cloves on each bulb and offers a mild well-rounded flavor and heat. It grows best where winters are cold spring is damp and cool and summer is dry and warm. Harvests VERY early and stores
Radicchio Chicory Red Verona
Leaves are sharp-flavored use sparingly in green salads. May also be sauteed steamed or grilled with meats. GARDIN HINTS: Do not plant too early in spring or plants may bolt (go to seed). In early fall cut off all leaves
Pea RSVPea
These peas please. Arriving early they produce prolifically and are deliciously sweet. Each pod arrives loaded with 7-8 utterly scrumptious peas. Growing to 40″ these sturdy pea plants are adapted for the cooler climates of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Pepper Hot Dragon Cayenne
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Hot hot hot! Sizzling pungent hybrid guarantees this is going to be one hot summer. Five times hotter than jalape?o fire-breathing Dragon adds flame and flavor to Mexican and Asian dishes. Pretty well-branched 30″ tall plants produce
