Category Archives: Vegetables
Pepper Sweet Marconi Golden
The golden cousin of the red-colored Marconi this delicious and mild-tasting heirloom pepper is prized in Italy. Very sweet and very large the 7-10″ long tapered fruits are great for eating fresh frying grilling or stuffing. Pick at either the
Bean Painted Pony
Originating in Mexico this Mexican heirloom is a choice dual-purpose bean. Harvest at about 60 days for plentiful long thin stringless snap beans-or let the pods dry on the bush type plants and harvest after 80 days for a bountiful
Tomato Burpee’s Long-Keeper
A Burpee introduction in 1979 Long-Keeper is a must for winter storage. Staying fresh for 6-12 weeks or more it provides fruits for fresh use during the fall and into the winter. The skin of these fruits is a golden
Lettuce Alfresco Mix
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Buttery tender red and green leaf lettuces together with peppery arugula delicate endive and firm full-flavored radicchio make up a classic Mediterranean mix.
Tomato Porterhouse Hybrid
These plump beefsteak tomatoes-tipping the scales from 2 to 4 lb. each-are bursting with larger-than-life flavor. The luscious flesh is deep red all the way through-just the right balance of meaty solids and succulent juice. The smooth texture and rich
Bean Three Color Blend
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Can’t-miss tricolor combination lights up the garden and the dinner table. Our selection of sweet colorful easy-to-harvest bush beans yields masses of vivid purple (Royal Burgundy) yellow (Mellow Yellow) and green (Bush Blue Lake 274) pods.
Pea Sugar Bon
The most versatile peas that are wonderful raw steamed or stir-fried. Yields are higher because you eat them pod and all. Thick full sized snap peas are very sweet. This snap pea bears delicious sweet pods 3″ long. Compact plants
Mesclun Provencal Mix
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Travelers to the Provence region of France have long returned with ecstatic reports on the produce in the markets and the food in the many inns and restaurants. One of the reasons is the tried and true
Pea Peagoda
Presenting Peagoda! Prolific paragon of the pea patch and incredible edible ornamental welcome addition to the edible landscape tantalizing towers of peas are upright self-supporting plants with branches at 90-degree angles. Patio-perfect compact plants branches boast 2-3 pods and 2-3
Radish Cook’s Custom Blend
Cook’s Garden Favorite. We?ve blended our favorite red pink purple and white radishes for a quick and beautiful addition to salads and party trays. Sow every two weeks for bountiful harvests all season.
Eggplant Early Midnight Hybrid
This is what we call the “renaissance eggplant” because it excels in every way. First of all it’s first arriving a full week before other eggplants. Plump dark-skinned and gorgeous Early Midnight’s 6″ thick fruits boast creamy white
Melon Bodacious Hybrid
An excellent summer refreshment this exquisite lime-green melon is a sensory marvels: a paragon of flavor texture color form and fragrance. Gourmet-worthy oriental sweet melon on full-vining plants offer up nourishing green fruit with soft sweet succulent flesh. Fruits weigh
Tomato Napa Grape Hybrid
Tip-top tomato taste! Our exclusive grape tomato sets a high standard. Consistently the top choice in our summer taste tests Napa maintains a higher sugar content than any other grape tomato-and the sweetness doesn’t fade in late summer. The elongated
Bush Bean Venice
Delectable Italian type pods yield in bushels. Best when 5-6″ long the flat pods load up onto squat 16″ tall plants in just 55 days! They are resistant to the Bean Common Mosaic Virus.
Pea Burpeeana Early
The sweetness of garden peas is legendary. This Burpee-bred early extremely prolific all-purpose pea produces straight 3″ pods filled with 8 to 10 medium to large peas. It freezes well and is an outstanding winter crop in Zones 9-11. The
Spinach A La Carte Hybrid
Cooking spinach is possibly the easiest fastest and most rewarding task in the kitchen. Rinse boil or steam and wait a couple of minutes. Basta! Spinachs high-speed preparation is matched by its dense savory nutty flavor versatility and nutritional ka-boom!
Onion Tokyo Long White
This bunching onion has long slender roots that are harvested as large scallions. Reaching about 12 to 15″ tall the stalk bottoms are pure white while the pungent flavorful tops are medium green. Use fresh or cook as you would
Pepper Hot Born to be Mild Hybrid
Luscious green low-heat 3″ hot pepper reminds us what how utterly delectable a pepper can be when your mouth isnt on fire. ‘Born to be Mild’ provides full spectrum of flavorful nuances that with hotter varieties go up in flames.
Spinach Harmony Hybrid
Harmony Hybrid spinach has large tender dark green slightly crinkled leaves. Healthful tasty spinach can be sown twice for extra yield. Quick-growing superb flavor. Great braised boiled or added to meatless lasagnas.
Tomato Black Truffle
This luscious new variety is our improvement on the Siberian heirloom Black Pear. The deep burgundy color with undertones of purplish-black is as rich as the flavor. We find it high in both sugars and acid creating a sweet strong
