Category Archives: Vegetables
Cantaloupe El Gordo hybrid
75-85 days. Can’t believe this cantaloupe! El Gordo is the biggest cantaloupe in the garden. The colossal sweeter-than-sweet fruits weigh in at 15 lbs. One melon will feed the whole familyand a friend or two or three. And how sweet
Squash Winter Burpee’s Bush Table Queen
Plants produce an abundance of green deeply ribbed acorn-shaped fruit that are 5″ long and 4″ wide. Delicious high quality flesh is orange. Ready to harvest about 80 days after seed is sown.
Melon Canary Spanish Sun Hybrid
Edible sunlight. The name of this luscious Spanish oval-shaped smooth-skinned 6 lb. melon is inspired by the bright yellow of the rind when ripe. Crisp and firm the fruit’s succulent pale green flesh is aromatic tangy and tasty-ready for dessert
Pepper Sweet Friggitello
Generations of Italian families have savored this crispy sweet pepper. This family heirloom variety is used in salads or sauteed with the extras pickled or dried. Large 3′ plants bear large crops of 3-4″ long tapered fruits that turn bright
Tomato Heirloom Taste Collection
A feast for tomato lovers. This premier collection offers Burpee’s four best tomato varieties for taste flavor and size. You get one plant each of Black Krim-tomatoes with gorgeous dark color and tangy flavor. Burpee’s Supersteak hybrid-the original “giant” tomato
Okra Burgundy
When cooked the leaves of this hibiscus relative turn a deep lovely shade of purple. Gorgeous 3-5′ ornamental plants produce high numbers of tender 6-8″ pods. There’s a pretty contrast between the plant’s green leaves against the burgundy stems branches
Tomato Super Italian Paste
From Italy with flavor. Primo Italiano heirloom paste tomato produces plenty of elongated reddish-orange 6″ long fruits. Firm and meaty the flesh is piquant and sweet ready to star as paste and in sauces. Fruits hold well after ripening on
Tomato Amish Paste Organic Heirloom
From the Pennsylvania Amish a large meaty bright red heirloom with superior taste a nice balance of sweet and acid. Excellent fresh or in sauces. Certified Organic Seed.
Okra Perkins Mammoth Long Pod
Soup- and gumbo-ready the extra-long 7-9″ bright green pods keep their tenderness even when large. A favorite variety for slicing and freezing the tall plant’s abundant pods can be harvested when young at 4-5″ or fully mature at 7-9″.
Tomato Terenzo Hybrid
This here cherry tomato plant just won’t quit producing an amazing harvest of round sweet crack-resistant 1 1/4” fruits. A 2011 All-America Selections winner this superproducer excels in containers and hanging baskets a snackable pleasure for the eyes and palate.
Squash Red Kuri
This squash commands your attention on account of the fruits’ color and succulent flesh. Red Kuri’s magnificent bright scarlet tear-drop-shaped fruits are packed with dense flesh that’s smashing roasted or in soups. Generous plants produce large yields of 4-6 lb.
Cucumber Burpless Beauty
The super-productive vines yield loads of long deep green cucumbers that stay crisp longer than any other we’ve tried. Pick and slice to reveal the pure white firm flesh with an exceptionally small seed cavity. The thin-skinned cukes have the
Fall Vegetable Success Kit
Get your fall vegetable seeds started with customer favorite XL Ultimate Growing System. This kit also includes1 seed packet each of fall favorites’ Bonanza’ Broccoli ‘Earliana’ Cabbage and ‘Kale Storm’ Kale and 1 top-rated Floating Row Cover to cover your
Tomato Health Kick Hybrid
A breakthrough in breeding this tomato is actually healthier for you than others you can grow or buy. Packed with the 50% more of the beneficial antioxidant lycopene this prolific saladette produces a bountiful crop of 4 oz. sweet red
Eggplant Louisiana Long Green
For maximum flavor and optimal texture pick the fruits of this Southern heirloom eggplant when young. With appealing light green skin and full-bodied nutty white flesh the slender fruits grow 8 to 9″ long. Tall plants that produce high yields.
Bean Purple King
Attractive towering vines glow with shiny purple 5-6″ pods. These beans are sweet juicy have incredible flavor and so easy to spot on the vine!
Watermelon Congo
An All-America Selections winner in 1950 Congo is hard to find these days but it is one sweet beautiful watermelon. Weighing as much as 35 lb. Congo’s oblong medium-green fruits with dark green stripes are filled with firm sweet
Tomato Mr. Stripey
Mr. Stripey’s mild sweet-tasting fruits have a high sugar content and grow to over 1 lb. each. Pretty and luscious this tomato has rich yellow undertones covered with pinkish-red striping. Indeterminate.
Pepper Sweet Carmen Hybrid
Carmen is a traditional horn-shaped Italian sweet pepper. It matures early from green to red and is extremely productive in a wide temperature range. Harvest about 75 days after transplanting.
Bean Roma II Bush
Roma II is a bush form of famous Pole Romano. Its distinctive robust flavor and heavy crop of stringless flat green pods 4 1/2″ long make it a great choice. COOKING HINT: blanch then saute in olive oil with a
