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| Imagine harvesting the freshest, most flavorful tomatoes;
unique colors of peppers and beans or melons so juicy they
melt in your mouth – all from your own garden. Growing
vegetables and herbs is a rewarding project for gardeners
of all ages, and your success starts with Burpee Home Gardens. |
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Arugula
'My Way'
Characteristics : Shade Tolerant
Exposure : Sun
General Information : Tender young leaves with a robust, peppery
flavor. A pleasant accent in tossed salads or served alone with
vinaigrette dressing. Idea
& Tips : Easy to grow, Arugula likes full sun, but will
tolerate partial shade. For best results, grow Arugula quickly
during cool weather in moist, fertile soil. The soil should
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Blue Lake
Bush Beans
Blue Lake 58 days to harvest; plump, tender pods;
slow-developing seeds; resistant to bean mosaic
The bean is a tender, warm season vegetable that ranks second
to tomato in popularity in home gardens.
Bush Beans stand erect
without support. They yield well and require the least amount
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Beets,
Bulls Blood
HEIRLOOM. Wonderful and amazing looking dual
purpose beet.
HEIRLOOM. 40 days. Bull's Blood has the reddest foliage we
have ever seen. The earliest thinnings spark up spring and
fall salads with a leaf color as richly dark red as radicchio.
As the roots enlarge, the baby beets are also delicious cooked
and mixed with salad. The small sweet red roots are best when
harvested young. |
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Broccoli
'Flash'
Scientific Name : Brassica oleracea var. italica
Spacing : 8" (20cm)
Exposure : Sun
A Burpee Home
Gardens Exclusive variety.
Try Flash, our new hybrid, for fast, early and tasty harvests.
Heat resistant and tolerant to downy mildew (a common plant
problem), Flash is a great broccoli to plant for its sweet
flavor. Pick, steam and enjoy with melted butter and freshly
squeezed lemon juice. 50 days to maturity.
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Broccoli, Raab
Spacing : 8" (20cm)
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : (Italian Broccoli) Large, slow-bolting,
widely adaptable variety. Plants grow up to 30 in. (75 cm)
tall, and produce many straplike leaves and side shoots.
Sow in Spring in the North. 60 days to maturity.
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Kohlrabi,
Winner
55 days. Brassica oleracea. When the bottom of the bulb has
reached 2-3" in diameter, it is ready for harvest.(F1)
Plant produces large bulbs. Very flavorful. Resists pithiness.
This hybrid kohlrabi produces very smooth,
light green bulbs that grow to weigh about 18 ozs. Its vigorous,
upright plant produces bulbs that have a fresh, fruity taste.
Good holding ability.While the leaves are still young and
tender, they can be cooked like kale or collards. |
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Brussel
Sprouts 'Franklin'
Scientific Name : Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera
These 1" sprouts look like tiny heads of cabbage. Enjoy
steamed or raw.
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : Early-maturing variety produces high-quality,
round-oval, uniform and firm sprouts. Tall plants have less
woody stalks than others, so whole stem harvest is possible.
80 days to maturity. |
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Cauliflower
Chedder
Scientific Name : Brassica oleracea var.
botrytis
Spacing : 24" (61cm)
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : 25% more beta carotene than standard
white types - excellent source of Vitamin A. Uniform, dome-shaped
heads are yellow-orange in color and weigh 2 lb. (0.9 kg).
68 days to maturity.
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Cucumber Burpee
Hybrid II
Spacing : 12" (30cm)
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : Dark green with white spines. Fruit
is 8.5 in. (22 cm) long. 57 days to maturity
Cool crisp fless with great flavor. Early high yielding
plant produces very straight fruits. They are best picked
at 7 to 8". Cucumbers have a shallow root system and
require regular moisture.Do not let cucumbers get too big
because the vines stop producing if over-mature cucumbers
stay on the vine.
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Cucumber
Burpless No. 26
Spacing : 12" (30cm)
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : Smooth, dark green fruit. Very compact
and productive Japanese-type. Fruit is 9 in. (23 cm) long.
60 days to maturity.
This very compact and productive japanese type cucumber has
smooth, dark green fruit that are crisp and tasty with a non-bitter
flavor. We recommend staking these cucumbers as they grow
because the fruit gets quite heavy. For best flavor pick when
cukes are 8 to 10" long. |
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Cabbage Savoy Ace
All-America Selections Winner!
78 days. Brassica oleracea. (F1) This variety produces good
yields of fine quality savoy type cabbage. The crops produces
large 3 ½ lb deep green heads. The interior is excellent.
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Eggplant
Rosa Bianca
75 to 80 days
Plump and creamy heirloom
variety.
An Italian heirloom with a creamy consistency and delicate
flavor that’s never bitter. Plump oval-shaped fruit
are white with rosy-lavender blushes and streaks.
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Choy
Pak Toy
Dwarf Chinese Cabbage
30 to 35 days.
A miniature Pak Choi, little Toy Choi is the perfect single-serving
vegetable, with smooth, dark green leaves and glistening crisp
white stalks. Just the right size to set on your plate, this
quick-maturing little wonder is a gourmet treat you can enjoy
all season long.
Toy Choi offers smooth, dark green foliage arising from pure
white stalks, quite firm and crisp to the bite. The flavor
is quite mild, tender, and succulent. |
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Lettuce
Buttercrunch
65 to 70 days
Considered one of the top quality Bibb-type varieties. This
tender and delicious lettuce is tasty in salads. With a luscious
buttery texture, Buttercrunch has 4 to 5" heads that
are dark green outside iwth a creamy yellow color inside.
Best picked minutes before your meal. This All-American selections
Winner is easy to grow. It prefers moderately moist, well-fertilized
soil. |
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Lettuce Little
Caesar
Spacing : 8
- 12" (20 - 30cm)
Exposure : Sun
A Burpee Home
Gardens Exclusive variety. One head of this excellent
romaine is just right when you’re making a salad for two.
This lettuce produces a blend of tasty green outer leaves and
golden blanched inner leaves that taste best when picked minutes
before your meal. Plant Little Caesar early in spring or in
the fall, because it grows best in cool weather. |
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Lettuce
Gourmet Blend
45 Days to harvest. Burpee
Home Gardens Exclusive. Our popular looseleaf blend is sleected
for a long harvest and includes equal amounts of Grand Rapids,
Royal Oak Leaf, Red Salad Bowl, Salad Bowl and Ruby. This
colorful blend is fast growing and best when picked just before
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Mustard
Red Streaked Mizuno
20 days baby, 40 days maturity
This green is
ideal for harvest at a baby leaf stage when it has its best
dark red color. It can be sold as a specialty Asian green
or blended into a salad mix to add a mustardy flavor, texture
and red color. The leaves are deeply serrated and produce
their best color during periods of cool growing temperatures. |
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Mustard Red
Giant
Thick, tender leaves are succulent and finely-flavored.
40 days (mature) or 20 days (baby greens). At last, a Mustard
Green very showy put it in every garden and on every table of
gardeners who love bold colors and fresh flavor in their veggies!
Red Giant is a brilliant maroon with deep green midribs, so
showy you may just have to plant two crops -- one in the veggie
patch and one along the walkway or in your annual border!
These leaves are slightly textured for a better bite and good
holding power. The flavor is zesty and full, with a good bite
that you just can't find in store-bought mustard greens.
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Pepper
'Better Belle'
Blooming Season : Late Spring, Summer
Plant Habit : Upright
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : A Ball Exclusive and a Jim's Pick selection.
Early, tasty variety. Blocky, thick-walled, four-lobed. Plant
maintains large fruit size and production all season. Tobacco
Mosaic tolerant. Green to red fruit 4.6 x 3.5 in. (11 x 9
cm) fruit. 65 days to maturity. |
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Pepper 'Big
Daddy'
Spacing : 18 - 24" (46 - 61cm)
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : Big Daddy produces jumbo, 10-in. (25-cm)
yellow peppers in three months. Pick a sunny location that you
can water every couple days and keep a couple stakes handy in
case the stalks begin to bend. Versatile in the kitchen, try
roasting with red peppers for an attractive combo. 73 days to
maturity. |
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Pepper
Flavor Burst
Spacing : 18 - 24" (46
- 61cm)
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : Easy to grow, producing a bountiful harvest
of crisp, juicy golden peppers all summer long. These peppers
produce fruit all summer, longer than most other varieties.
Grow in a sunny spot with plenty of water. You might need
to stake your plants if the stalks begin to bend. 72 days
to maturity. |
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Pepper
Pinot Noir
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : Large, blocky fruits blush simultaneously
to shades of citrus, berry and cherry red for a beautiful
range of colors. The thick-walled peppers are very sweet and
firm. Widely adaptable plants set fruit from cool to hot,
humid conditions. Lilac to red 5 x 4 in. (13 x 10 cm) fruit.
68 days to maturity. |
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Pepper
Red Delicious
Spacing : 12 - 18" (30
- 46cm)
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : These small peppers are great fresh in
salads, sautéed, roasted or grilled. Producing 3-in.
(8-cm) fruits, Red Delicious is versatile and easy to grow
in sunny vegetable gardens and patio pots. Begin harvesting
as soon as two months after planting. Even green, this sweet
and mild pepper has a unique apple taste when fully ripe.
80 days to maturity. |
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Spinach
Bloomsdale
Spacing : 8 - 12" (20
- 30cm)
Exposure : Sun
42 to 48 days to harvest.
Grower Information : Heavy, continuous yield of thick-textured,
crinkled and glossy, dark green leaves. This Spinach has a
sweet non-bitter taste. Pick a few leaves from each plant
to encourage them to keep blooming all season. Withstands
heat and cold. Slow to bolt. 48 days to maturity. |
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Butternut
Squash 'Burpee Butter Bush'
Days to Harvest 75
Butter Bush is a space saver in the garden. Growing about 4
ft. wide when planted in well-drained, moist soil. Each of these
delicious squash plants produces five butternut shaped fruits.
This winter squash keeps for months and makes superb pie. A
versatile veggie and an excellent source of vitamin A.
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Squash Peter
Pan
Producing uniform, light green fruit with meaty
flesh, this All- American Selections Winner is perfect for small-space
gardens. Peter Pan ripens early and the plants are highly productive.
Distinctive and delicious, use these 3 in. squash stuffed, grilled
or cooked with other veggies. |
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Strawberries
Galore
This everbearing variety can be harvested
every three or four days once it starts producing. Produces
mid sized berries over thick glossy foliage. Hardy to zone
5.
Spacing: 18in (45cm)
Exposure: Full Sun – 6+ hours direct sun
Days to harvest: 75 |
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Summer Squash
49 days. A truly beautiful straightneck
squash with a rich, butter yellow color that keeps its color
longer than most varieties. Great tasting and perfect on the
grill, sauteed or baked. Large, vigorous, plants are disease
resistant. Six hours or more of direct sun per day. |
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Tomato
Big Beef
Beefmaster
type with twice the yields. All American Selections Classic
Variety
Big Beef is often considered the finest all around tomato
for your vegetable garden. It's extra meaty with a true homegrown
flavor and just the right balance of sugars and acids. Big
Beef produces extra large, "beefy" fruit and the
large, vigorous and desease resistent plants are quite manageable
when staked or grown in large cages. |
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Tomato
Brandywine Heirloom
Flat, globe-type
tomatoes have reddish-pink skin and very tasty red flesh.
Potato leaf type with much foliage. Higher yielding in cooler
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Tomato 'Brandy
Boy'
Spacing : 24 - 36" (61 - 91cm)
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : A hybrid of the classic Brandywine, Brandy
Boy has the benefits of an heirloom – incredible taste,
smooth and thin skin – without the drawbacks. Producing
loads of large 5" pink fruits, this tomato is best eaten
fresh in salads. These tomatoes need at least one inch (2.5
cm) of water per week and prefer six hours or more of direct
sun each day. 78 days to maturity. |
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Tomato Celebrity
Spacing : 24 - 36" (61 - 91cm)
Exposure : Sun
72 days to maturity.
All American Selections Winner . Large, glossy tomatoes with
light green shoulders. 8 oz. fruit. Exceptionally tastey.
Determinate (bush type): Blossoms and fruit develop on the vine
at the same time. The harvest time is short - 7 to 10 days.
Plants are self-topping and seldom need staking; best when caged.
Perfect for first time gardner producing large tomatoes to use
sliced on sandwiches and burgers, in sauces & salsa's.
Disease Tolerance: Fusarium Wilt Races 1 & 2, Nematodes,
Tobacco Mosaic Virus. |
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Tomato Early
Girl
A true bush type plant, Bush early Girl is perfect
for large patio pots. It's amazingly compact yet productive.
Higher yielding and earlier than other compact varieties, these
large red fruits have excellent flavor. Growing only 18"
tall this plant produces fruits measuring almost 4" across.
Blossoms and fruit develop on on the vine at the same time.
The harvest time is short - 7 to 10 days. Plants are self-topping
and seldom need staking; best when caged.
Disease Tolerance: Verticillium, Fusarium Wilt Races 1 &
2, Nematodes and Tobacco Mosaic Virus. |
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Tomato Lemon
Boy
Spacing : 24 - 36" (61 - 91cm)
Exposure : Sun
Unique, lemon yellow skin. Resists Leaf Mold, Alternaria Stem
Canker. 7 oz. (198 g) fruit. 72 days to maturity.
Indeterminate (pole or stake type): Blossoms and fruit develop
progressively, and the harvest lasts several months; best when
staked. Plants load up with dozens of fruits at a time. Harvest
Summer through Fall. You will love the old fashioned taste on
sandwiches & burgers or in your salads.
Disease Tolerance: Verticillium, Fusarium Wilt Race 1, Nematodes.
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Tomato
Napa Grape
Spacing : 24 - 36" (61
- 91cm)
Exposure : Sun
A consistent top choice in taste tests, Napa Grape Hybrid
has a higher sugar content than any other grape tomato. Eat
these sugary fruits fresh off the vine or use in salads and
party trays. A consistent top choice in taste tests, Napa
Grape Hybrid has a higher sugar content than any other grape
tomato. Enjoy these tasty treats in salads all summer long.
These tomatoes need at least one inch (2.5 cm) of water per
week and prefer six hours or more of direct sun each day.
65 days to maturity. |
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Heirloom
Tomato Pineapple
Exposure : Sun
This colossal heirloom offers a total tomato experience, much
different from today's milder hybrids. The beautiful yellow
and red striped fruits show the same colors inside when you
cut them open. The flavor is rich and sweet, the fruit has
a strong tomato aroma and the meat inside has few seeds and
more solids. Pineapple is a standout in everyone's garden,
with the strong vines producing an abundant crop of very large
tomatoes up to 2 lbs. each. .
85-95 days to maturity.
Indeterminate (pole or stake type): Blossoms and fruit develop
progressively, and the harvest lasts several months; best
when staked.
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Tomato 'Steak
Sandwich'
Spacing : 24 - 36" (61 - 91cm)
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : Vigorous but compact, Steak Sandwich tomatoes
load up with dozens of fruits at a time. Harvest the large fruits
summer through fall and you’ll love them on sandwiches
and burgers or in salads. These tomatoes need at least one inch
(2.5 cm) of water per week and prefer six hours or more of direct
sun each day. 70 days to maturity. |
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Tomato
'Sun Gold'
Spacing : 24 - 36" (61 - 91cm)
Exposure : Sun
One of the most popular varieties of cherry tomatoes. Distinctive
tangy, sweet. Sun Gold ripens early to a beautiful golden
orange. Fruits are borne in large clusters. Harvest twice
a week once they begin producing fruit. Great for snacking
even a week before fully mature, with a sweet flavor. 0.5
oz. (14 g) fruit. 65 days to maturity.
Indeterminate (pole or stake type): Blossoms and fruit develop
progressively, and the harvest lasts several months; best
when staked.
Disease Tolerance: Fusarium Wilt Race 1, Tobacco Mosaic Virus.
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Tomato
'Super Tastey'
Spacing : 24 - 36" (61 - 91cm)
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : SuperTasty has a rich, tangy flavor and
solid texture with deep red color inside and out. Great in
large patio pots and small-space gardens, this variety requires
minimal staking for support. Try SuperTasty sliced on sandwiches
throughout the summer and fall. These tomatoes need at least
one inch (2.5 cm) of water per week and prefer six hours or
more of direct sun each day. 70 days to maturity.
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Tomato
'Supersteak Hybrid'
Spacing : 24 - 36" (61 - 91cm)
Exposure : Sun
Grower Information : Meaty with excellent flavor. 14 oz. (378
g) fruit. 80 days to maturity.
Indeterminate (pole or stake type): Blossoms and fruit develop
progressively, and the harvest lasts several months; best
when staked.
Disease Tolerance: Verticillium, Fusarium Wilt Race 1, Nematodes.
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Tomato
'Sweet Seedless'
Spacing : 24 - 36" (61 - 91cm)
Exposure : Sun
The Worlds first seedless tomato. Beyond the lack of seeds
to digest, this tomato is frist rate for taste. In fact because
there are no seeds to store the sugars for later use, all
the sweetness is immediately available for you to enjoy in
every rich slice. This variety’s medium-sized, seedless
fruits are round with a deep red color. This is a totally
new tomato on every level – the perfect balance of flavor
and sweetness, meat and gel, solid firmness and juiciness.
These tomatoes need at least one inch (2.5 cm) of water per
week and prefer six hours or more of direct sun each day.
70 days to maturity. |
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Tomato
'Tumbler'
Hardiness Degree : 40°F
Plant Habit : Mounded, Trailing
Exposure : Sun
Very early, cascading plants are ideal for hanging baskets
and containers. Prolific plants produce up to 6 lbs. (2.7
kg) of cherry-type tomatoes that are very sweet and tasty.
1.25 in (3-cm) fruit. 49 days to maturity.
Determinate (bush type): Blossoms and fruit develop on the
vine at the same time. The harvest time is short - 7 to 10
days. Plants are self-toping and seldom need staking; best
when caged. |
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Zucchini
Squash Dark Green
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