Burpless Beauty cucumber 60 days Stays crisp longer than any cucumber we ve tried. 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 right balance of crispness and juiciness-and these mild beauties are easy on the digestion. Disease-resistant plants set fruits over several months. Picklebush cucumber 52 days Burpee bred Picklebush has unbelievably compact vines that get only 2 long. White-spined fruits have classic pickle look, deep green with paler stripes. Up to 4 1/2 long, 1 1/2 across at maturity but use them at any size. Very productive and tolerant to powdery mildew and Cucumber mosaic virus. Spacemaster cucumber 56 days Great for small areas. 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. Straight Eight cucumber 58 days A cucumber superstar, this classic has excellent flavor and is widely adapted. This heirloom, All-America Selections winner is a cuke for all seasons. Pick when 8 long for top flavor. For perfect cukes, grow them on a fence or spacesaving trellis netting. Sow seeds 6 apart in rows, or plant 5 or 6 seeds in groups (hills) 4 to 5 apart. Black Beauty eggplant 74 days HEIRLOOM. From 1902, it remains a standard worldwide for large-fruited black eggplant. 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. Gretel eggplant 55 days Solid white specialty mini eggplant. Loads of tender, bitter-free 3-4 fruits on a compact 24-36 plant. You can begin to harvest when fruits are 3-4 long by 3/4-1 1/4 diameter. Green calyx. AAS winner. Kermit eggplant 60 days Thai specialty eggplant. Compact, well-branched plant with a prolific set of small, round fruits, avg. 1½-2 in diameter. White blossom end with a deep green, striped shoulder. Firm flesh holds up well in curries. Green calyx.
Korean Red eggplant 70 days An early maturing variety! Yields delicious green fruits that turn a brilliant red-orange color, and reach 4- to 6-ounces, if left to mature. The flavor is so mild and sweet that you won t have to use traditional cooking techniques to remove the bitterness that s often associated with other types. (70 days) Left to mature, the fruits reach 4-6 ounces, taking on a red-orange color and are quite decorative perfect for arrangements. Unusual eggplant grown from seed originating in the former USSR. Listada de Gandia eggplant 75-90 days Old heirloom from the Valencia province on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Fruits are 5-6 long with white and purple stripes with excellent flavor and very thin skin, does not require peeling. Harvest from very attractive plants in about 75-90 days from transplant. From renowned vegetable growing province of Valencia. Long Purple eggplant 70-80 days Italian type with gorgeous dark purple coloring. The dark purple fruits are best used before they are 8 to 10 long. Each plant grows to 24 to 30 and produces 8 or more eggplants. Patio Baby eggplant 45 days Early-yielding All-America Selection, perfect for patios. Patio Baby, a prodigiously prolific dwarf eggplant, offers up a summerlong harvest, each plant producing 25 to 50 luscious babies. Loaded with rich, mild, sweet flavor, Patio Baby s mini-fruits (never eaten raw) are delicious baked, roasted, or sautéed excelling as a side dish, or starring in salads or dips. Thornless leaves and calyxes make for painless harvesting. Apple gourd 100-120 days Large hard-shelled gourd shaped like an apple. Mottled green skin dries to brown; very long shelf life. Gourds are 6-8 tall and 4-6 across. Best used for crafting and birdhouses. Birdhouse gourd 95-110 days Light-green fruits with rounded necks and bowls grow 14 tall and 12 in diameter. Dried gourds make excellent birdhouses and attractive fall and winter decorations. Vigorous 15-35 vines. Bushel Basket gourd 120 days Huge, round gourds, up to 24 across, can be used for all kinds of art work and as storage containers. Night flowering plants attract huge moths; very long vines. Fruit has a thick, hard shell.
Tennessee Dancing gourd 90-100 days Also known as Spinning gourds. Years ago children would carry these gourds in their pockets to play with at school where they would spin them on their desks. Hard shelled when dried, great ornamental. Melon, Honey Rock 80 days An early maturing heirloom melon with good yields. Honey Rock melon produces 3-4 lbs fruits that are early to mature in just 80 days. Flesh is salmon-orange with good yields of quality fruit. An AAS winner for 1933. Good size for an early melon. Watermelon, Crimson Sweet 80 days Large, round melons averaging 25 lb. are light green with dark green stripes. Flesh is dark red, firm and fine-textured. Resistant to Fusarium wilt and anthracnose. Grow on plastic mulch to control weeds, conserve soil moisture and protect fruit by keeping it off the ground. Gold in Gold watermelon 80-84 days Fun for the entire family! Cheerful yellow melons with gold striping that are yellow-gold on the inside for a real summer treat! Oval fruits are crisp, refreshing and delicious. Produces 5-8 pound fruits. Watermelon, Unbridled 85 days This watermelon has an 85-day maturity and has high yield potential. Unbridled boasts very strong vines and bears fruit with crisp, firm flesh. Extra tasty, too! Use Wild Card Plus as a pollenizer to ensure plentiful production. Watermelon, Wild Card Plus This variety has an early and extended flowering period that ensures early pollen availability when the hybrid starts flowering. Long, thin internodes radially-extend pollen to wherever a female flower is located. Extended flowering period that goes well beyond the hybrid. Use as a pollinizer for watermelon plants. Watermelon, Yellow Buttercup 90 days Well known in the marketplace, Yellow Buttercup is considered one of the top yellow-fleshed varieties. Bright yellow flesh and crisp texture with great eating qualities makes Yellow Buttercup a must for any growing schedule.
Baron pepper 65 green / 85 red ripe Highly adaptable, large-fruited Ancho pepper. Baron has proven to produce better than other anchos under challenging and favorable conditions. The fruits are very large and are typically two-lobed which makes them easy to stuff and cook in their signature dish, chile rellenos. Scoville Heat Units: 1000-1500 Big Red pepper 75 days Plant produces high yields of large sweet bell peppers. Peppers turn from green to red when mature. Peppers have thick flesh and are very sweet. Excellent for salads and stuffing. Excellent choice for home gardens! California Wonder pepper 75 days HEIRLOOM. The standard bell pepper for many decades, this 1928 introduction is still the largest openpollinated, heirloom bell you can grow. A perfect stuffing pepper-blocky 4 x 3 1/2, thick-walled, tender and flavorful. Carolina Reaper pepper 120 days Believed to be the hottest pepper in the world, the Carolina reaper is a serious scorcher! For those extreme pepper eaters, Carolina reaper is a must-- for those less adventurous, they make a great conversation piece in the garden. These devious little peppers are fiery red with a little scythe shaped tail at the base of each fruit, hence the name reaper. The heat rating on these monsters is 1,569,300 Scovilles, in comparison the spicy habanero is a mere 100,000 scovilles! Durango pepper 70-80 days Durango has excellent strong and healthy plants with very good yield potential. The mature final red color is deep burgundy and excellent quality. The fruit are ~6.5-8 inches in length, with a slightly broader wide shoulder, and excellent final dry weight ratio when compared with current standards. The fruit have a classic guajillo flavor. Scoville Heat Units: 1,000 5,000 Early jalapeno pepper 72-75 days Ideal for Mexican dishes. Deep green fruits mature to red. Sausage-shaped fruits, 3-1/2 by 1-1/2, are also perfect for pickling. Just like Jalapeno, but earlier and better adapted to cool coastal conditions. Compact, non-brittle bushes. Scoville Heat Units: 3,500 4,500 Gigantia jalapeno pepper 70 days This one s the choice for stuffing poppers and making a party-worthy salsa. Use green or red, either way they are delicious and hot! Scoville Heat Units: 5,000 30,000
Great Stuff Hybrid pepper 75 days The right stuffer! This Burpee exclusive produces enormous peppers at 7 long and 5 wide, ripening from green to dark red. Very productive and disease-resistant. Produces excellent yields under varied conditions. Days to maturity are from time plants are set in garden. For transplants add 8-10 weeks. Space plants 18-24 apart. Greek Pepperoncini pepper 65 days Mildly hot fruits on prolific plants. This heirloom variety from Greece is sweet, crunchy and only mildly hot-great for pickling, salads and salsas but tasty fresh too. The plants are prolific and productive, even in cooler, short-season areas, yielding fruits that grow to be about 4 long by 1 wide. Harvest the peppers when they are light yellow and 2-3 long. Lunchbox pepper 55-63 green / 75-83 color These beautiful, mini-sized peppers are remarkably sweet and flavorful. They are delicious sautéed, as an addition to salads and, of course, perfect for a healthy snack. All three varieties have tall strong plants that yield well for snack-type peppers. NOTE: Lunchbox Red is slightly smaller than the rest of the series. Sweet Chocolate pepper 58 green / 78 brown ripe Rich chocolate-brown bell pepper. Remarkable earliness, tolerance of cool nights, and a heavy set. Smooth, medium-small, tapered, snub nose (blunt end) bells with long fruit stems. Very mild flavor, medium thick flesh. The flesh under the skin is brick red. Developed by the late E.M. Meader, Univ. of New Hampshire. Early Prolific Straightneck squash 50 days HEIRLOOM. Very popular early yellow straightneck. Bush-like plants supply large crop of creamy yellowskinned fruits. GARDEN HINTS: Fruits are best when 8 to 9 long. Cultivate or mulch to control weeds. Fertilize when fruits form to increase yield. Sweet Dumpling squash 82 days Sweet Dumpling is a very popular squash because it can be used for ornamental as well as culinary purposes. The fruit shape is round with high shoulders. The size is small (8-10 ounces). The skin color is creamy with dark green stripes and a light yellow interior flesh color. It has a smooth flesh texture with a delicate flavor. G-star patty pan squash 50 days Dark-green, shiny patty pan squash. Compared to Starship, G-Star s fruits are darker green and more ribbed. The smaller this prolific yielder is picked, the shinier it will be.
Sunburst patty pan squash 50-55 days Beautiful butter yellow patty pan fruit. Sunburst is a beautiful butter yellow scallop-type squash. Each fruit is accented with a small dark green ring. The mild, white flesh remains tender and firm. Best used when harvested and eaten at around 3 across. Goldetti spagetti squash 100 days A scrumptious, gold-skinned spaghetti squash High-yielding, big-flavored gold-skinned spaghetti squash with 4-6 lb. fruit. Cut in half length-wise and bake in 2 of water at 350 F until water boils. Remove carefully, let cool, and scoop out seeds. Use fork to rake out spaghetti. Toss with parmesan or serve with fresh sauce. Space-saving semi-bush plants. Spagetti squash 100 days 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 fruits form to increase yield. CULINARY HINTS: Boil entire fruit about 20 minutes, open, remove seeds and fluff flesh out of shell with a fork for spaghetti-like appearance. Serve with spaghetti sauce or season to taste. Black Beauty zucchini 50 days Summer type. Great to eat any way you cook it. Glossy black-green zucchini with creamy, white flesh. Plants have an open habit which makes for easy picking. Best picked when 6 to 8 long. Burpee s Golden zucchini 54 days Bright golden color and a delicious, distinctive zucchini flavor. Fruits are medium-long, slender and cylindrical in shape. Bright golden color and a delicious, distinctive zucchini flavor. Garden Hints: Fruits are best when 6 to 8 long. Cultivate or mulch to control weeds. Fertilize when fruits form to increase yield. Fordhook zucchini 57 days HEIRLOOM. All-America Selections winner for vigorous bush-like plants. Fordhook Zucchini has cylindrical, smooth, dark green, straight to slightly curves fruits with creamy white, tender flesh. The bushlike plants are vigorous and the fruits are best when 6-8 long. Sure Thing Hybrid zucchini 48 days This Burpee bred zucchini really is the Sure Thing because it will bears fruit early in cool, cloudy conditions even when there are no bees or male flowers around. Its medium-size fruits are long and very tasty. Its strong flavor is good with other vegetables.
Black Pearl tomato 65 days Black Pearl offers two distinct flavors in one tomato deep, rich and sweet at the same time. Produces an abundance of 1 1/2 purplish black fruits until fall. Enjoy right off the vine and be sure to put a big bowlful in the refrigerator for a special treat. Once chilled, Black Pearl has a unique, extra sweet, Concord grape flavor. Baxter s Bush Cherry tomato determinate 70-72 days A very early, red tomato with remarkable weather tolerance and keeping quality. Vigorous and productive, yielding firm, crack resistant fruits around a week earlier than other open-pollinated cherries. Small tasty fruits are great used fresh in salads. Fruit set tolerant of adverse weather conditions. Bushy, determinate habit needs no staking or cages. Supersweet 100 tomato 60 days The classic sweet, red tomato. Supersweet 100 is a reliable tomato with prolific yields of great tasting, 15-20 gm. fruits produced in large clusters. Widely adapted. High resistance to fusarium wilt and verticillium wilt. Sweet Gold tomato 62-65days Sweet Gold is a very early, yellow tomato with good flavor. The plants are high yielding and very vigorous producing single and double clusters. The fruit are small and weigh around 10 to 15 grams, have bright yellow flesh and a very attractive general appearance. Sweetie tomato 65-70 days Bite-sized tomatoes, deliciously sweet, are produced on vigorous plants. Fruits are good size for eating out of hand, or for salads. Yellow Pear tomato 75 days HEIRLOOM. This extremely old variety makes a vigorous plant that bears enormous numbers of bright yellow, bite-sized fruit. The flavor is deliciously tangy. Perfect for summer party hors d oeuvres.
Big Mama Hybrid tomato 80 days paste Mama Mia! The new standard in home-grown paste tomatoes. These beauties are plum-shaped, incredibly meaty, and enormous-up to 5 long and 3 across. Skin peels away easily after par-boiling, which means less fuss, less mess and more delicious, thick, creamy sauce! Roma tomato determinate 76 days paste HEIRLOOM. The classic sauce and paste tomato. Compact plants produce paste-type tomatoes resistant to Verticillium and Fusarium wilts. Meaty interiors and few seeds. GARDEN HINTS: Fertilize when first fruits form to increase yield. Water deeply once a week during very dry weather. San Marzano tomato 80 days paste HEIRLOOM. The long, blocky fruits mature with a small, discreet seed cavity that can be scooped out, leaving all meat. This means much less boiling to get a first class paste. The shape is also good for canning, and excellent for drying. Better Boy tomato 72 days Huge, tasty, red tomatoes, many 1 lb. each. Large, delicious, bright red, high yielding fruits are borne in abundance starting midseason and continuing to frost. Good foliage protection prevents sun scald. Better Boy is highly adaptable and thrives in most climates and has very good disease resistance. Big Beef tomato 73 days beefsteak Extra large, 10-12 oz. ruby red tomatoes are firm, juicy and highly flavored. An All-America Selections winner-and you ll see and taste why. Extra-large, 10 to 12 oz. red fruits are firm, juicy and highly flavored. Yields heavily in all regions. Big Boy tomato 78 days One of the greatest tomatoes of all time and still a best seller. When we bred and introduced Big Boy hybrid tomato in 1949, its incredible productivity and gorgeous, perfect, large red fruit made it an instant hit. What s kept Big Boy tomato a best-selling tomato all these years is the wonderful aroma and rich flavor. The fruits weigh in 10 oz. with many reaching 1 lb. or more. Healthy, vines produce all summer long. The bountiful harvest begins about 78 days after setting plants in the garden.
Brandywine tomato 78 days Brandywine s luscious, heirloom flavor can be described as very rich, loud, and distinctively spicy. The large fruits, often over 1 lb., have a deep pink skin and smooth red flesh. The medium-tall, potato-leaf plant is best staked or caged. Bush Steak Hybrid tomato determinate 65 days Meet the best of the staked tomatoes-a standout for exceptional taste, size and quantity. This surprisingly compact (20-24 ) plant is just loaded with large, flavorful tomatoes. Well-suited for a patios, small gardens and containers, the dwarf plants offer big meaty fruit (8-12 oz.) and early maturity. Chef s Choice Orange tomato 75 days All-America Selections award winner. When it comes to a beefsteak for, saucing, and soup-ing, Chef s Choice Orange is your best bet. Combining the perfect balance of rich, heirloom flavor and function, bright orange 9-12 oz. fruits keep their radiant tangerine tones, fresh or cooked. As adaptable in the garden as it is in the kitchen, Chef s Choice Orange more than merits the All-America Selections award for 2015. This hybrid-heirloom, adapted from the tasty but late Amana Orange will quickly be a favorite to sink your teeth into. Each 5-6 plant yields up two dozen fruits over the season. Disease-resistant plants resist cracking, as well. Cherokee Purple tomato 85 days beefsteak HEIRLOOM. Its flavor is rich and full often compared with Brandywine. This large dark purple heirloom tomato from Tennessee is rumored to have come from Cherokee gardeners. With its rich, full flavor, it s often compared with Brandywine. The flesh is brick-red and very attractive sliced on a plate. Plants produce large vines that yield tomatoes fully 5 across and 3 1/2 deep. Delicious tomato 77 days beefsteak Huge, solid scarlet fruits average 1 lb.; some even weigh 2 lb. Smooth, crack-free, excellent slicer with extra delicious flavor. Early Treat Hybrid tomato 49 days Extra early plants produce plentiful clusters of tasty, 4 oz. deep red fruits that are great for.
Fourth of July tomato 49 days Be the first on your block to have vine ripened red, luscious tomatoes by the Fourth of July. Enjoy the plentiful harvest about 49 days after setting plants in the garden. Indeterminate plants produce fruits that average 4 ounces all season long. Park s Whopper tomato 65 days These big, juicy, crack-resistant tomatoes, 4 inches or more across, ripen uniformly (even when the weather is overcast!). Then they keep right on coming in huge quantities until frost -- none of your smaller, greener end-of-season fruits here! Park s Whopper has been a taste test favorite for many years, and you will love the rich, succulent bite you get from every fruit. Resistant to Verticillium Wilt, Root Knot Nematodes, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, and 2 strains of Fusarium Wilt, Park s Whopper is a great choice for beginning gardeners and seasoned pros alike. Find out what all the fuss is about -- grow the tomato that American gardeners have been in love with for decades! Rutgers tomato 74 days HEIRLOOM. Its flavor, both for and cooking, is still unequaled. The legendary Jersey tomato, introduced in 1934, is a cross between J.T.D. (an old New Jersey variety from the Campbell Soup Co.) and Marglobe. Its flavor, both for and cooking, is still unequaled. Red fruits are slightly flattened. Tall vines, Fusarium resistance. Steak Sandwich Hybrid tomato 70 days These large, luscious beauties offer old-fashioned tomato taste for sandwiches and salads. They remain firm when ripe, so you can slip a slice into your favorite summer sandwich, BLT or burger and savor the rich, succulent, sweet taste. The vigorous compact plants load up with dozens of fruit at a time, a bounty continuing from midsummer to early fall. Super Beefsteak tomato 80 days 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. Glass Gem corn 105 days Amazing color! Indescribably beautiful flint or popcorn comes in an endless range of colors. Translucent kernels really do shine brilliantly like glass on the cob they resemble strands of glass beads! The 3-8 ears are consummately decorative, but edible and delicious as well. Makes firm little morsels when popped; can also be parched, ground into meal, and more. Sturdy plants reach to 9 in height and throw numerous sideshoots where the season is long enough. Bred from a number of Native varieties by Carl White Eagle Barnes, the famous Cherokee corn collector to whom we owe our gratitude for his life s work of collecting, preserving and sharing so many native corn varieties.