Category Archives: Vegetables
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
Squash Winter Burpee’s Butterbush
Deep red-orange flesh is rich and delicious. Space-saving bush-type plants grow only 3′ long. Each bush bears 4-5 butternut-shaped fruits averaging 1 1/2 lb. A sweet staple and a great source of vitamin A. Winter squash keeps for months and
Bean Mascotte
Cook’s Garden Favorite. French green bean par excellence. Mascotte offers up a plentitude of round extra fine stringless 5 beans the crisp flesh packed with flavor. Pods require only the simplest preparation: a little steaming a little butter: bean bliss.
Squash True Hubbard
True Hubbard has appeared in American gardens and been served on American tables since at least the 1780s. Weighing about 12 lb. each the squash has delicious yellow-gold flesh and deep green skin. The long-storing fruits are excellent in pies
Lettuce Rouge d’Hiver
In 1885 this variety made its debut in the French company Vilmorin’s The Vegetable Garden. A compact romaine type the heads grow to 10-12″ tall producing large smooth leaves that are green at the heart and brownish-red throughout the body.
Tomato Red Lightning Hybrid
Lovely to look at exquisite to taste. Red Lightning loads up with brilliant red 2 1/2 to 3″ fruits covered with “hand-painted” yellow stripes. The flavor is irresistible-sweet tangy and richly aromatic. Lends a jolt of delectable color to salads.
Tomato Matina Organic
Deep red 3″ fruits grow up to 4-6 oz. on extra early plants. Sweet and tart flavor is ideal fresh canned or cooked. Indeterminate. Harvest about 75 days after transplanting.
Tomato Baby Boomer Hybrid
This summer get ready for the invasion of the cherry tomatoes. Wildly prolific each determinate patio-ready bush unleashes a bumper crop of 300 little sweeties bursting with great big flavor. Whorling plants yield up 1″ 1 oz. cherries right until
Eggplant Black Beauty Organic
Over 100 years old this 1902 Burpee introduction was an immediate hit because the plants ripened perfect fruits dramatically earlier than other varieties. It became the common market eggplant of today. Harvested fresh however makes all the difference. Certified Organic
Garlic Cuban Purple
Rich flavored Creole garlic with deeply colored purple clove wrappers.Harvest fall planted garlic the following season late spring or early summer about 210 days from planting. Harvest spring planted garlic the same season about 90 days from planting. Averages 10
Squash Italiano Largo Hybrid
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Hybrid. Deeply ribbed zucchini type summer squash with robust nutty Italian flavor. Fruits are long and thin with a slight curve and few seeds even if allowed to get large — which they will do. For a
Pumpkin Jarrahdale
Lovely and decorative this pumpkin with stunning blue-green skin comes to us from the town of Jarrahdale in New Zealand. Weighing in the 8-10 lb. range and 10″ tall the flattened firm-ribbed fruits have mild slightly sweet almost fruity golden-yellow
Eggplant Gourmet Blend
A mix of seeds of four eggsellent eggplants-contains 25% each of Black Beauty Snowy Purple Blush and Rosa Bianca. Harvest this colorful assortment 60-70 days after transplanting. Eggplants are delicious brushed will olive oil and put on the grill or
Carrot Nantes Half Long
Easy to grow and full of vitamins. Nantes Half Long has slim cylindrical orange roots that are 7″ long 1 1/2″ thick. It’s been proven tops for productivity delicious flavor and wide adaptability. GARDEN HINTS: Sow seed in deep well-worked
Lettuce Four Seasons
Heirloom. The name alludes to the remarkable cold hardiness of this very beautiful 6″ butterhead. It’s still one of the best lettuces both for early spring planting and for fall/winter harvests. Outer leaves are tinged with red. Inner leaves are
Tomato Riesentraube
Originating in Germany this heirloom cherry tomato was grown by the Pennsylvania Dutch (who were in fact German) as early as the 1850s. The variety’s name fittingly enough translates from the German as “giant bunch of grapes”. The compact indeterminate
Garlic Killarney Red
Similar to German Red or Spanish Roja this Rocambole variety does better than most in wet conditions. Strong and nutty flavor. Harvest fall planted garlic the following season late spring or early summer about 240 days from planting. Harvest spring
