Category Archives: Vegetables
Pepper Bush Belle Hybrid
This new sweet pepper is a super producer and small space champion. The 36? plants are loaded with thick-walled blocky 4? long fruits. The tangy sweet peppers are sublime in salads ravishing when roasted and great grilled. Harvest in about
Tomato Green Zebra Organic
Green Zebra is actually the result of four heirlooms bred together. Whatever it’s a beauty with exquisite emerald green skin dark green vertical stripes and gently flavorful green flesh. Ready to be eaten fresh or canned and enjoyed year-round. High-yielding
Pepper Hot Piquillo
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Heirloom. Savor a garden-fresh delicacy previously only available on the import shelves. These 3″ Northern Spain heirlooms – piquant but not hot – are the essential peppers for tapas. ‘Piquillos’ (or “little beaks”) ripen from olive-green to
Tomato Green Envy
Like no green tomato you’ve ever seen or tasted. This spectacular introduction a deep shade of emerald green is one of the greatest tomatoes we have ever bred. The meaty tangy cherry tomatoes are wondrously sweet and juicy. Edible perfection:
Pea Spring
The sweetness of garden peas is legendary. This is a very early pea that bears large crops on medium sized plants. Pods hold 6 to 7 plump peas vines grow 20″ tall. It’s fusarium wilt resistant and an outstanding winter
Squash Summer Cosmos Hybrid
This is one bright summer squash: bright yellow in color and blessed with a bright sweet nutty flavor. Vigorous high-yielding bush plants produce a cornucopia of straight-necked zucchini-type yellow fruit 6-8″ long x 1″ wide. Luscious flavor: whether grilled sauteed
Bean Triomphe de Farcy Bush
HEIRLOOM. Triomphe de Farcy produces slender crunchy pods that have a distinct rich flavor. It bears very early and very heavily needs no support and should be harvested often when the pods are 3 to 6″ long. One 2 oz.
Tomato Supertasty Hybrid
Supertasty tomato plant is bushy disease free vigorous and productive. Its fruit has a rich tangy flavor and its color is a saturated deep red inside and out. Space saving habit with minimal staking required. Semi-determinate.
Tomato Amish Paste
A multitalented heirloom paste tomato from Wisconsin well-suited for paste or as a slicing tomato. Acorn-shaped the very large 8-12 oz. fruits are deep red thick-fleshed and nearly seedless. Indeterminate vines. Harvest 74-85 days after transplant.
Lettuce Red Grenoble
The French have long fancied this variety for its crisp texture and lovely presentation. A Batavia type whose shiny deep-green leaves can be cut loose or allowed to form a loose central head. The vigorous grower matures to 12-16″ across
Lettuce Oak Leaf
This easy-to-grow American heirloom thrives whether it’s hot or cold. Dating back to at least the 1770s it makes a fine ornamental choice for containers and kitchen gardens. The flavor is mild and free of bitterness over a long season
Pepper Sweet Cabernet Hybrid
Sweet! Lamuyo-type pepper’s thick-walled fruits are 8″ long x 6″ wide and ripen from green to red. Highly productive plants produce oodles of slightly elongated fruit. Easy-growing low maintenance resistant to Tobacco mosaic virus.
Bean Lima Burpee’s Best Pole
Like Fordhook bush lima with higher yields and bigger pods. Superb fresh or frozen. Burpee Bred. Proven tops for productivity flavor and wide adaptability. Pole limas yield much more heavily and longer than bush types. Big plants can get 12
Radish China Rose
Jesuit missionaries gathered up this ancient winter radish from China and introduced it to Europe in the 1950s. Now ours to enjoy the long peppery roots-6-8″ by 2″ diameter-have bright beautiful rose-colored skin with white flesh. An ideal variety for
Radicchio Red Treviso
You may know this radicchio’s sister Early Treviso: both are beloved varieties in Italy. In summer the long upright 10-14″ heads begin green; when cooler weather comes around they turn deep red with white midribs and veins. The tender ever
Leek Blue Solaise
It’s hard to exaggerate the stalwart hardiness of this 19th century French heirloom. Indifferent to cold the plants will happily overwinter in Vermont. True blue-green the very large 15-20″ tall stalks turn still bluer as the weather gets colder. It’s
Tomato Burpees Early Pick VF Hybrid
Fine flavor gorgeous color solid flesh! Bears fruits early bumper crops all summer. Resists Verticillium and Fusarium wilts. Burpee bred.
Bean Eureka
Our favorite in Fordhook Farm’s test gardens these full straight 5-6″ bright yellow beans are exceptionally tasty and appear in abundance atop tidy 12-15″ plants. You’ll love them.
Squash Summer Golden Egg Hybrid
Golden Egg’s a picture-perfect gourmet sensation-with succulent flavor and texture. As exquisite as a Faberge egg but so much tastier. Spherical golden-yellow egg-shaped zucchini measures up to 5″ across boasting delicious creamy flesh with hints of chartreuse. High yielding with
Radish Salad Rose
A Burpee exclusive radish from Russia Salad Rose is a gorgeous rosy pink that grows to a truly bragging sized radish at 8″ long. A great salad or beer radish peppery but it won’t repeat on you. Try young leaves
