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Category Archives: Vegetables
Watermelon Orange Crisp Hybrid
Sweet and seedless orange flesh. You’ll love the brilliant orange flesh. It’s sweet, crisp and seedless! The round fruits with dark green rinds make fun “living” fruit bowls. Mix in red for a bright and refreshing summer treat.
Cantaloupe Burpee’s Hybrid
Our classic hybrid melon with a well-deserved reputation for outstanding flavor. This classic, a Burpee bred hybrid, has slightly oval fruits that are ribbed, heavily netted, and measure 7″ long, 6″ across and weigh 4½ lb. each. The flesh is
Watermelon Sugar Baby
Sweet tasting ‘Ice Box’ watermelon. Sweet, fine-textured, medium-red flesh. The round, 12 lb., dark green skinned melons grow 8 in. across. GARDEN HINTS: For early fruiting and to overcome a short growing season, plants may be started indoors in peat
Melon Bodacious Hybrid
Gourmet oriental sweet melon with sweet, succulent flesh. 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
Cantaloupe Sweet ‘N Early Hybrid
Ideal for short-season areas. This Burpee bred melon is ideal for areas with short growing seasons, and it’s our best early cantaloupe, bearing longer than any other melon in our trials. It has firm, bright salmon flesh that is sweet
Cantaloupe Olympic Express Hybrid
Early maturing with excellent flavor and gorgeous flesh. One beauteous, tasty and sweet cantaloupe. Tipping the scales at 6-7 lb., this early-maturing variety boasts exceptional fruit quality, firm, crisp flesh, high sugar content, excellent flavor and gorgeous flesh color. Resistant
Cantaloupe Hales Best Jumbo
HEIRLOOM. This muskmelon became widely popular because it combined excellent flavor with earliness. Hales Best Jumbo was developed by a Japanese market gardener in California around 1920. It became widely popular because it combined excellent flavor with earliness. It’s a
Watermelon Bush Sugar Baby
Sweet, scarlet (icebox) watermelons grow on space-saving vines A delicious, sweet must for small, sunny gardens. Each plant bears two 12 lb. melons. Burpee bred. After all danger of frost, sow 5 or 6 seeds in groups 6-8′ apart .
Cantaloupe Honey Bun Hybrid
A true bush cantaloupe for small gardens. Honey Bun is a real bush cantaloupe that is well suited for the smaller garden. The little melons are 5″ across with deep orange flesh and honey-sweet flavor. Each vine will produce 3
Watermelon Georgia Rattlesnake
HEIRLOOM. The classic watermelon with pale green “snakeskin” stripes. Melons get 2′ long and weigh 30 lb. The flesh is bright pink and sweet. The rind is thin but very tough, which made it a favorite of market gardeners.
Watermelon Carolina Cross #183 Heirloom
Gigantic, delicious watermelons, many over 200 lb. These enormous watermelons are oblong with light green stripes and are ready to harvest just 100 days after sowing. GARDEN HINTS: For early fruiting and to overcome a short growing season, start seeds
Watermelon Seedless Big Tasty Hybrid
Handy-sized, but big-flavored, seedless watermelon! Divinely sweet, perfectly textured jewel red flesh, won our summer tasting of over 50 varieties. At 10-12″ in diameter and 6-8 lb., this seedless watermelon is the classic “icebox” size, like a smaller but seedless
Watermelon Ruby
Super sweet and juicy seedless watermelon with ruby red flesh. This new gem bowled us over with its super sweet and juicy, perfectly crisp and firm ruby red flesh. At only 6-8 lb., this seedless watermelon is a nice size
Cantaloupe Burpee’s Ambrosia Hybrid
Our top-selling cantaloupe for over 20 years. Burpee’s Ambrosia has been our top-selling cantaloupe for over 20 years because of its luscious, extra-sweet taste, juiciness and nectarous aroma. The tick, firm, flesh is delicious right down to the rind. The
Cantaloupe El Gordo hybrid
The biggest cantaloupe we have ever seen! Sweeter-than-sweet too. 75-85 days. Can’t believe this cantaloupe! ‘El Gordo’ is the biggest cantaloupe in the garden. The colossal, sweeter-than-sweet fruits weigh in at 15 lbs. One melon will feed the whole family—and
Melon Muskateer Hybrid
The perfect one-serving melon. Early to harvest. Honeydew lovers, we now present the portable, one-person melon! Weighing 1-1.5 lbs., ‘Musketeer’ is perfectly sized for a personal melon peak experience. Melons grow in abundance on full-sized vines: great for trellising. Earlier
Lettuce Fordhook Favorites Blend
Exceptional taste, robust colors and long harvest time. Popular loose-leaf lettuce blend, this combination is known for its exceptional taste, robust colors and long harvest time. Harvest young leaves as early as 25 days after sowing.
Lettuce Rouge d’Hiver
Vintage French heirloom with large, smooth tasty leaves. In 1885, this variety made its debut in the French company Vilmorin’s The Vegetable Garden. A compact romaine type, the heads grow to 10-12″ tall, producing large smooth leaves that are green
Lettuce Paris White Cos
Favorite for caesar salads. Crisp and sweet; a must for traditional Caesar salad. Distinctive, elongated heads about 10″ long.
Lettuce Reine des Glaces
A French heirloom crisphead lettuce: light green, crispy and sweet. Queen of the Ice is how the name of this regal French heirloom translates. Leaves of this crisphead lettuce are lacy and deep green and form good-sized heads; inner leaves
