Category Archives: Vegetables
Lettuce Baby Leaf Blend
This gourmet-ready collection of mini-greens includes four of our most delectable baby lettuces. The mix is evenly divided between green oak leaf red oak leaf and red and green romaines. Sow the seeds thickly and cut them once they reach
Garlic Georgia Crystal
Very rich flavored and mild heat Porcelain garlic. Delicious buttery flavors arise when ‘Georgia Crystal’ is slow roasted. This variety does well across the nation except where summers are particularly hot. Harvest fall planted garlic the following season late spring
Tomato Giant Pink Belgium
This is a succulent and enormous dark 1 1/2 to 2 lb. pink tomato is sweet and very mild and the large fruits are very attractive. Pink-skinned tomatoes occur as a result of a clear skin over red flesh. (Ordinary
Kale Blend
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Just add color. Mix includes four different kale varieties: 25% ‘Lacinato’ 25% ‘Winterbor’ 25% ‘Redbor’ and 25% ‘Dwarf Curled Vates’. Kale is just about the most nutritious thing you can eat and can be prepared in an
Tomato Super Beefsteak
Delicious flavorful meaty fruits have smooth shoulders not as rough and ridgy as Beefsteak and the blossom end scars are smaller. Prolific vigorous plants produce luscious red fruits averaging 17 oz.
Pumpkin Early Sweet Sugar Pie
The fine orange flesh of this favorite is the best for rich pumpkin pies. Easy to handle at only 6-7 lb. each.
Shallots French Red
Prolific plants produce an abundance of 1-2″ diameter bulbs that are sweet and similar to a green onion flavor. Very mild in flavor never overpowering. French Red is naturally sweet and adds color to your favorite recipes.
Spinach Space Hybrid
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Hybrid. This is a true three season spinach: heat tolerant and slow bolting yet also resistant to the mildew that makes fall spinach so chancy. Quick growing — ready in 40 days or less. Upright habit with
Arugula Rocket (Roquette)
Tender smooth leaves with robust peppery flavor. Cook mature leaves with other greens. GARDEN HINTS: Grows best in cool weather. Can also be grown as a fall crop. Sow early in spring. Protect from heat with shade cloth. Likes fertile
Kale Kale Storm
The great American kale kraze just gets krazier by the day with ever-growing numbers of kale konnoisseurs blissing out at the cabbage cousins incredible flavor and outsize nutritional bonanza. Kale Storm a chromatic medley of three choice varietiespurple green
Garlic Burpee’s Best Spring Collection
Garlic is a many-splendored thing-offering a spectrum of flavors nuances hues shapes and sizes. Our new Spring Collection introduces you to a variety of garlic experience. Includes 1/2 lb. each of Early Italian Purple Silver Rose Inchelium Red Italian Late
Pumpkin Connecticut Field
When the first settlers arrived in New England native Americans were growing pumpkins that looked like this one among their corn. It is the original Halloween pumpkin and makes great pies too. Fruits measure 12-20″ in diameter and weigh 15-25
Broccoli Waltham 29
Known for producing large heads and long stalks this longtime favorite is excellent for cooking fresh or freezing. The 4-6″ dark blue-green heads are arrayed with side shoots. Developed to withstand cold it performs outstandingly in the fall.
Cucumber Spacemaster
This compact cucumber is ideal for containers or hanging baskets. Its short hardy vines produce slender dark green fruits 7 1/2″ long. It’s prolific and great in salads or plain. Resistant to Cucumber mosaic virus and scab.
Eggplant Black Beauty
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.
Potato Russet Norkotah
High-yielding and delicious the perfect potato for small gardens. Russet-skinned potatoes for baking or boiling. Matures early.
Garlic Shilla
Shilla is a beautiful early harvesting very rich flavored and moderately pungent Turban garlic from Korea. Straw-colored clove covers and parchment-like bulb wrappers occasionally have thin stripes and a little color to them. Earliest harvesting garlic that wants to be
Pumpkin Jack O’ Lantern
Excellent for Halloween carving and cooking. Pumpkins are 18-24 lbs. with a round to elongated shape. It has a fine taste as well.
Garlic Kettle River Giant
Called “Giant” for a reason these big garlic bulbs can grow up to 4″ across! This variety boasts the long storage characteristics of a softneck but the complex flavor of a hardneck. Originating in the Pacific Northwest it does well
Garlic Italian Late
Softneck variety that is medium in size with a short and round bulb. The skin is very tight which is a little hard to work but the tight coarse tunics keep cloves fresh in storage for up to 8 months.
