Category Archives: Vegetables
Pumpkin Big Max
If given plenty of moisture fertilizer and space Big Max will live up to its name. Bright orange skin covers 4″ thick bright yellow-orange flesh. Delicious for pies. GARDIN HINTS: Let one or two pumpkins only develop per vine for
Lettuce Heatwave Blend
Feast both your eyes and your palate on lettuces that thrive in the heat and remain productive and tasty longer than all others. Our choice”slow bolt” varieties include green and red crisphead green romaine and multiple textures and colors of
Lettuce EZ Serve
One quick snap at the base of the head and individual salad-sized leaves simply fall apart and into line-instantly ready for a quick rinse and plate presentation.
Spinach New Zealand
Produces small fleshy green leaves till frost. Yields long harvests as a perennial in mild climates.
Cucumber Parisian
Tickled by pickles? Pick this dark-green French heirloom gherkin with firm thick flesh and precious few seeds. Great for home preserving. Harvest in just 50 days-less than 2 months-for picking and pickling.
Kale Tronchuda Beira Hybrid
This outstanding kale can take the heat and star in the kitchen. Most heat-tolerant of all kale hybrids five-pound heads are closely packed with wide 24 paddle-shaped blue-green leaves. Tender sweet leaves offer flavor at once rich and mild. Vigorous
Okra Red Velvet Organic
Beautiful red-stemmed plants 4-5′ tall produce distinctive scarlet-red pods. Tender slightly ribbed pods are best when 3 to 6″ long. GARDEN HINTS: Soak seed in warm water overnight to speed germination. Pick pods young while still tender. Pods are excellent
Pepper Hot Salsa Mixture
Buy one packet and grow five different kinds of hot peppers! Includes Hungarian Wax Anaheim Chili Long Slim Red Cayenne Ancho (Poblano) and Jalapeno M. Days to maturity are from time plants are set in garden. For transplants add 8-10
Corn Silver Queen Hybrid
Silver Queen is the popular late-season variety with tenderness and flavor worth waiting for. Large ears 8 to 9″ long have 14-16 rows of white kernels and plants grow to 8 ft. Proven tops for productivity flavor and wide adaptability
Squash Winter Vegetable Spaghetti
Medium-sized 3-4 lb. oblong fruits. The fruit’s interior is ready for serving like spaghetti 100 days after seed is sown. Can be stored several months in a cool dry place. GARDEN HINTS: Cultivate or mulch to control weeds. Fertilize when
Pepper Hot Pepperoncini Italian
If you are a pickled pepper person this Italian pepper is for you. Expect gratifyingly large crops of 5-6″ long thin slightly wrinkled peppers. At first the peppers are a pleasing light green and as the season progresses their color
Corn Illini Xtra Sweet Hybrid
Garden-fresh sweet corn is summer’s greatest pleasure. Supersweet Hybrid Sh2 corn can be twice as sweet as others. Enjoy the 8″ ears of corn 48 hours after picking and they are four times as sweet as standard hybrids and will
Onion Kappa Hybrid
Burgers! Onion rings! Salads! Saut?s! Easy-growing easy-peeling easy slicing easy to love. Elongated gold-skinned gourmet onions are shaped and sized right for slicing. Prolific variety will grow with compact spacing: provides a juicy onion payload. Long – Intermediate day variety.
Radish Cherry Belle
Round smooth scarlet beauties 3/4″ across with crisp white flesh. Fast and easy to grow radishes are best in cool weather. Proven tops for performance flavor and wide adaptability.
Corn On Deck Hybrid
And now on deck sweet corn! Ever so tasty breakthrough bicolor variety is perfectly sized-4-5′ tall-to spend the summer on your deck patio or terrace adding vertical interest as well as producing two to three delicious 7-8″ long ears per
Tomato Red Zebra
Red Zebra is thought to be a naturally occurring cross between Green Zebra and an unknown though certainly red parent. The beautiful and tartly flavored offspring are gorgeous 2 to 3″ round cherry-red fruits with rich orange streaks. The bountiful
Pepper Sweet Golden Giant II Hybrid
This Burpee exclusive pepper has great taste and giant size. Sweet and juicy the 7″ long 5″ wide bright yellow fruits have a wonderful shape and extra thick walls. A superior pepper for roasting that’s also terrific in salads and
Tomato Brandy Boy Hybrid
One of the all-time classic tomatoes is now even better. Brandy Boy captures all the rich flavor of the beloved Brandywine heirloom tomato-long the flavor favorite among heirloom tomatoes-with a more shapely form tidier growth habit improved disease-resistance and bigger
Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson
Hugely popular for over 150 years it’s one of the most tender and delicately flavored leaf lettuces ever bred. The ruffled leaves are large with an appealing green color. Simpson is well adapted to a wide range of climates and
Broccoli Royal Tenderette Hybrid
A broccoli by another name wouldnt taste as sweet! This unique cutting broccoli combines a sweet snacking quality with the favorable earliness of spring crops. Each plant of Royal Tenderette sends out multiple tender 3-4 stems topped with mini-floret heads.
