Category Archives: Vegetables
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
Cantaloupe Hales Best Jumbo
Hales Best Jumbo was developed by a Japanese market gardener in California around 1920. It became widely popular because it combined excellent flavor with earliness. It’s a beautiful oval melon with deep green skin and golden netting. The flesh is
Squash Ronde de Nice
An heirloom prized by generations of French squash connoisseurs for its mild nutty flavor and ever-so-tender flesh and skin. Harvest when fruits are young when they are merely 2-3″ in diameter and steam or saute. Ready in about 45-52 days.
Tomato Brandywine Red
Flavorful but not acidic it is a large-lobed beefsteak-shaped tomato with a thin pinkish-red skin. Very vigorous. Best if staked caged or trellised. Perfect for slicing.
Squash Gourmet Gold Hybrid
Just what the doctor ordered: a virus-resistant sunshine-yellow squash. Plants produce more better-quality fruits over a longer time and the leaves stay big green and attractive. Bushy plants with open habit make picking easy.
Corn Maple Sugar Hybrid
We knew from the first bite that we had a winner. This utterly unique yellow hybrid had us at “hello”. It boasts sugar levels truly beyond belief while retaining the full texture and creaminess of older types. We like it
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
Pepper Hot Blazing Banana Hybrid
Hot time in the pepper patch! Blazing Banana is a multitasker: delivering heat heirloom flavor big yields and arriving early. Plants are crowded with delectable 7-9-long banana-type fruits. Ready to embolden salsa soups and stews. Grill-perfect. Resistant to Bacterial Leaf
Cucumber Armenian
Heavily ribbed light green cukes with mild sweet taste. The fruit grows very long and is best eaten when 24″ long and less than 2 1/2″ across.
Eggplant Turkish Orange
Native to Turkey this heirloom variety is a favorite of Italian gardeners and chefs. The petite 18-22″ plants produce abundant yields of round red-orange 3″ fruit. Eat when the fruits are young and in the green stage. Once orange the
Bean Burpees Stringless Green Pod
HEIRLOOM. This Burpee bred bean is entirely stringless; it’s brittle meaty juicy and has exceptional flavor. Plant yields are early and extremely high; pods are round about 6″ long and slightly curved. Plants are entirely self supporting. A 2 oz.
Pumpkin Jack O Lantern Organic
Excellent for Halloween craving and cooking. Pumpkins are medium sized round to elongated in shape. It has a fine taste as well. Certified Organic Seed.
Spinach Bloomsdale Long Standing
Popeye’s favorite heirloom variety! Bloomsdale Long Standing is an old standard. It’s a large spreading spinach has dark green savoyed curled leaves. The yield is good and it is slow to bolt. For first crop sow in spring. Plant again
