Vegetable Seeds and Plants

Vegetable Seeds and Plants

Shop and grow vegetable seeds and plants perfect for your home garden. Prize winning tomatoes, peppers, beans and heirloom vegetables from our online store. More »

Annual Flower Seeds & Plants

Annual Flower Seeds & Plants

Our annual flowers are available in both seeds and plants from the most trusted name in home gardening. Find your favorite flower seeds and plants. Shop from our most popular categories, or from over 70 classes. More »

Perennials Seeds and Plants

Perennials Seeds and Plants

Year after year, our perennial seeds and plants will fill your home garden beds and borders. Select from our full palette of colors, textures, forms and fragrances to create the perennial garden of your dreams - a sensory pleasure for years to come. More »

Herbs Seeds and Plants

Herbs Seeds and Plants

Get ready for the surprising taste difference when you use our flavorful, fresh herbs from your home garden. Everyday dishes take on richer flavor and aroma. Whether you grow herbs for cooking, healing, fragrance, crafts or garden display, they are one of the easiest plants to grow. More »

Fruit Seeds & Plants

Fruit Seeds & Plants

We make growing your own fresh fruits and berries as simple as it is rewarding. Our fruit plants are selected specially for home garden performance and yield. More »

Home Gardening Supplies and Gifts

Home Gardening Supplies and Gifts

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Category Archives: Heirlooms

Brussels Sprouts Long Island

prod001111 HEIRLOOM. The semi-dwarf plants are stocky with leaves closely spaced so there are lots of tasty sprouts on the short self-supporting stems. Introduced at the end of the 19th century this was once one of the most important commercial varieties.

Beet Early Wonder

prod001986 Sweet is the beet. When it comes to beets the earlier the better. A dual-purpose beet with sweet early-producing 3-4″ roots and extra tall and flavorful tops for harvesting as greens. Cut the 18″ tall greens and use in lieu

Pumpkin Rouge Vif d’Etampes

prod000866 We introduced this pumpkin to America in 1883 but it had long been popular in France. It was used as the model for Cinderella’s coach. The fruits are slightly flattened heavily ribbed and make wonderful autumn displays.

Tomato Pruden’s Purple

prod001900 Often favorably compared with the illustrious Brandywine the gold standard of heirloom tomatoes. With dark pinkish-purple skin this widely adapted heirloom produces large slightly flattened 1 lb. fruits with firm meaty crimson flesh and few seeds. Indeterminate potato-leaf plants.

Onion Cippolini Red

prod003516 120-150 days. One sweet gourmet-ready onion. Cippolini (pronounced chip-oh-LEE-nee) onions are recognized by their small flattened disc-shaped bulbs—and delectable deep flavor. Ranging from 1-3” in diameter this red variety’s bulbs have pale translucent purple flesh and copper-colored thin

Watermelon Charleston Gray

prod000555 Flesh is red crisp fiberless and delicious; skin is light greenish gray. Resistant to fusarium wilt anthracnose and sunburn. Ready for harvest 85 days after sowing. GARDEN HINTS: For early fruiting and to overcome a short growing season start seeds

Zinnia Envy

prod001070 Green Zinnias in your garden make a dramatic display that words can only partially describe. The 3″ double and semi-double blooms look as sensational in the garden as they do in the vase. Try them in fresh arrangements with white

Corn Country Gentleman

prod001116 Country Gentleman is one of the most unusual sweet corns around because its white kernels are arranged irregularly not in rows. The kernels are also very deep and narrow hence its alternate name Shoe-peg. Developed around 1890 in the Connecticut

Bean Lima Fordhook 242 Bush

prod000591 All-America Selections winner. This Burpee bred bean is heat-resistant and thrives in adverse conditions. The heavy yields of 4″ pods with 3-5 large beans each are excellent for freezing. Proven tops for productivity flavor and wide adaptability. Bush varieties mature

Zinnia Exquisite

prod000431 HEIRLOOM. A true magician that lives up to its name this beauty offers a full season of color. Large 4-5″ blooms burst open a bright red and as new ones appear every day the older ones change to a rosy-red

Pepper Sweet Chinese Giant

prod000827 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

Watermelon Moon And Stars Heirloom

prod000559 A spectacular watermelon with fine flavor introduced by the Henderson seed company in 1926. The skin is deep green speckled with hundreds of golden yellow stars and a few half-dollar sized moons. Even the foliage has yellow “stars”. The fruit

Pumpkin Atlantic Giant

prod001981 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

Beet Bull’s Blood

prod000606 HEIRLOOM. Bull’s Blood has the reddest foliage we have ever seen. The earliest thinnings spark up spring and fall salads with a leaf color as richly dark red as radicchio. As the roots enlarge the baby beets are also delicious

Pepper Hot Poblano (Ancho)

prod000800 Called Ancho when dried Poblano when fresh. This is one of the most popular peppers grown in Mexico. Plants grow to 2 1/2 ft. tall. Fully ripened red fruits are much hotter and flavorful than the earlier picked green ones.

Cucumber Straight Eight

prod000699 This heirloom All-America Selections winner is a cuke for all seasons. Pick when 8″ long for top flavor. For perfect cukes grow them on a fence or our space-saving Trellis Netting. Sow seeds 6″ apart in rows or plant 5

Lettuce Yugoslavian Red

prod001926 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

Pepper Hot McMahon’s Bird Pepper

prod001945 A tangy hot pepper that’s rich in flavor and history. Producing tiny shiny round-red peppers this variety was introduced in 1813 by Bernard McMahon from seeds given to him by Thomas Jefferson who was as you may know an accomplished

Tomato Big Rainbow

prod000968 The flesh inside is marbled with red in the bottom half of the fruit. It has a big lumpy beefsteak shape with a very mild and sweet flavor. It’s a knockout on a platter with slices of our other tomato

Tomato Giant Pink Belgium

prod000990 This is a succulent and enormous dark 1 1/2 to 2 lb. pink tomato is sweet and very mild and the large fruits are very attractive. Pink-skinned tomatoes occur as a result of a clear skin over red flesh. (Ordinary