Category Archives: Vegetables
Lettuce Salad Bowl (Leaf)
Crisp and tender with a sweet flavor. Large deeply lobed green leaves. Slow to bolt non-heading. All-America Selections winner. Ready 45 days after sowing. GARDEN HINTS: Lettuce grows best in cool weather. Thinnings make delicious extra-early salads. Make successive plantings
Pumpkin Atlantic Giant
Over the last 30 years this here gigantic pumpkin has earned miles of blue ribbons in growing contests. Proudly descended from several strains of prize-winning “Mammoth” pumpkins that go back centuries and were legends in their day. Given the right
Lettuce Yugoslavian Red
We consider this the most beautiful lettuce we have grown. With bright-green cupped leaves splashed with rosy-red this butterhead type makes a visual and flavorful splash in the salad bowl. The taste is superb buttery and mild. Loose heads grow
Broccoli Di Ciccio Organic
De Cicco is an excellent choice for extended harvests for home gardeners. Vigorous plants yield 3-4″ blue-green heads. After cutting the main head more side shoots develop producing many more small to medium-sized heads through the summer. Good for steaming
Tomato Roma VF
Compact plants produce paste-type tomatoes resistant to Verticillium and Fusarium wilts. Meaty interiors and few seeds. GARDEN HINTS: Fertilize when first fruits form to increase yield. Water deeply once a week during very dry weather.
Shallots Dutch Yellow
Very expensive to buy in stores they’re so easy to grow that you can use them lavishly. Plant in spring (fall in the South) and harvest in fall or plant in fall to overwinter for spring use. Space sets 12″
Broccoli Raab Spring
Matures very quickly from seed. Green shoots have a captivating flavor. Cut 6″ pieces when they are the size of a quarter. You’ll love it lightly sauteed with garlic and olive oil fresh in salads and boiled soups.
Tomato Sweet Seedless Hybrid
We’ve come to appreciate seedless watermelons and virtually seedless cucumbers-now the world’s first seedless tomato! Beyond the lack of seeds to digest this tomato is first rate for taste-the perfect balance of flavor and sweetness meat and gel solid firmness
Leek Dawn Giant
This leek is huge up to 15″ long and 2″ across but what really makes it special is how extraordinarily early it is to grow. You can forget about the hassle of starting the seed indoors. Just sow the seeds
Pepper Hot Big Thai Hybrid
Medium hot 4-5″ fruits on 30″ plants mature quickly from green to dark red and dry fast on the plants. Harvest about 69 days after plants are set outside. Tie several peppers on a long string to hang for drying.
Pepper Sweet Chinese Giant
Sweet Chinese Giant was twice as big as the largest bell pepper of its day. Plants are a compact 24″ tall. Fruits are usually 4 by 4″ but Mr. Burpee pointed out that if you thin the fruits they can
Cucumber Picklebush
Burpee bred Picklebush has unbelievably compact vines that get only 2′ long. White-spined fruits have classic pickle look deep green with paler stripes. Up to 4 1/2″ long 1 1/2″ across at maturity but use them at any size. Very
Garlic Purple Glazer
Originating in South Russia the highest yields are produced in areas with very cold winters. Glazed purple bulbs with a tinge of gold are stunning. Purple Glazer produces a deliciously tender and mild garlic scape and the cloves offer a
Onion Sturon Organic
Medium round brown globes have sweet yellow flesh. This is a high yielding onion that resists bolting. Does well in storage. Certified Organic Seed.
Onion Red Creole
A short-day mid-sized onion especially suited for southern climes. Excellent for storing the hard thick flattened pale red bulbs have pungent spicy purple-red flesh.
Garlic Thai Fire
Thai Fire is a Turban garlic from Bangkok with rich complex flavor. Nut brown to royal purple colored bulb covers give way to cloves that gradually increase in heat intensity from first bite. Turbans are among the earliest harvesting garlic
Garlic Chinese Pink
Chinese Pink is the earliest to harvest in spring when planted the previous fall. You can have garlic at least a month earlier than main season varieties. Has a deliciously strong flavor with a mild heat making it great for
Pepper Sweet Gypsy Hybrid
This All-America Selections winner is a very prolific frying pepper that is also recommended fresh in salads. Tapered fruits grow 4 1/2″ long by 2 1/2″ wide and matures from yellow to orange to red.
Cauliflower Snowball Self-Blanching
A flavorful heirloom variety that produces 6-8 pure-white heads. When colder weather arrives its leaves will curl upright and self-wrap.
Tomato Delicious
Huge solid scarlet fruits average 1 lb.; some even weigh 2 lb. Smooth crack-free excellent slicer with extra delicious flavor.
