Category Archives: Vegetables
Celeriac Brilliant
If you haven’t tried celeriac wait no longer. This pale green edible root sporting a curly headdress of green leaves is a celery family member sharing celery’s clean bright flavor. This hardy root adds pizzazz to soups and salads and
Mustard Giant Red Organic
Giant Red Japanese mustards make bold versatile ornamental edibles. Upright large rosettes up to 18″ tall are very colorful with deep red purplish savoy leaves edged and veined pale green. Easy to grow in spring fall and winter gardens these
Beet Burpee’s Golden
HEIRLOOM. A color breakthrough! When we introduced this savory golden beet in the 1940s it won over gardeners who wanted a beet with a sweeter milder flavor. Others just loved the inviting gold color. Globes reach 2″ across.
Mustard Tendergreen
Tendergreen has smooth leaves and makes a fine spinach substitute especially in the fall. Seeds germinate and grow quickly in late summer heat and mature to tender sweetness in cool weather. Thinnings are delicious as fresh snacks or in salads.
Tomato Rutgers
The legendary Jersey tomato introduced in 1934 is a cross between J.T.D. (an old New Jersey variety from the Campbell Soup Co.) and Marglobe. Its flavor both for slicing and cooking is still unequaled. Red fruits are slightly flattened. Tall
Okra Clemson Spineless
This 1939 All-America Selections winner is still the most popular variety on the market. The vigorous 4-ft. high plants produce an abundance of dark green grooved pods without spines. Best picked when 2.5 to 3″ long. GARDEN HINTS: Soak seed
Pepper Hot Lemon
This pepper from the markets of Ecuador ripens to a pure lemon yellow in about 80 days but it is delightfully flavorful when green. The skin is tender and the aroma is spicy with a hint of pine woods. As
Mustard Florida Broad Leaf
A mild-flavored mustard producing large broad rich green leaves of appetizing pungency. Greens may be steamed brazed or cooked in broth. Easily grown in the north.
Tomato Black Krim
This medium-sized very dark maroon beefsteak with wonderfully rich flavor originated in Crimea a peninsula in the Black Sea with perfect “tomato summers”. Extremely tasty.
Cantaloupe Hearts Of Gold Organic
These are beautiful melons with luscious deep-orange golden flesh that is sweet juicy and fragrant. Rinds are thin heavily netted and medium ribbed. Vigorous prolific plants bear nearly round medium-sized 2-3 lb. fruits that are ready to pick 90 days
Tomato Brandywine Pink
Brandywine which dates back to 1885 is the heirloom tomato standard. One taste and you’ll be enchanted by its superb flavor and luscious shade of red-pink. The large beefsteak-shaped fruits grow on unusually upright potato-leaved plants. The fruits set one
Cabbage Baby Choi Organic
Loose rosettes of green leaves with pale stems used like Chinese cabbage. Short and squat to only 6″ long Baby Choi has crunchy stems and crinkly broad leaves. Quick and easy to grow in cool weather. Great stir-fried steamed and
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
