- The document describes the characteristics of various vegetable varieties including their growth habits, yields, flavors and times to maturity. Key details are provided about tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons, greens and other vegetables. The varieties highlighted would perform well in home gardens and provide bountiful, delicious produce.

2. •Large, aromatic leaves
•Easy to harvest and bountiful yield
•Large classy 3-inch leaves
•Well-branched 12 to 18-inch plants
•Slower to bolt
•Ocimum basilicum

3. •Most attractive long, thin straight pods
•Delicious tasting raw or cooked
•Purple pods turn green when cooked
•Pods average 5 to 5 1/2 inches long
•No staking required of the medium-
sized upright plants
•Harvest 56 days from sowing seed
•Phaseolus Vulgaris

4. •Prized for its beautiful golden seeds
with maroon markings
•Versatile bean can be harvested at
almost any stage from 55 to 95 days
•Eat young beans like a snap bean
•Use mature green pods like a shell
bean
•Delicious buttery texture and flavor
•Phaseolus vulgaris

5. •Atlantis is a broccoli/gailon cross that
competes favorably with baby broccoli
sold in supermarkets
•Florets slightly bigger with potentially
higher yield than „Happy Rich‟
•If harvested 1-2 times per
week, plants will bear well for 4-6
weeks
•Brassica oleracea

6. •Beautiful Italian heirloom with eye-
catching lime green, spiraled head
composed of many small pointed florets
•Delicious nutty broccoli flavor and
creamy texture
•Sure to intrigue gourmet chefs and
finicky eaters alike
•Harvest 65 days from transplant
• Brassica oleracea

7. •New Zealand import similar to lemon
cucumber from the early 1930‟s
•3-inch diameter fruit weighing 4-6
ounces is apple-shaped when ripe
•Thin tender creamy-white skin
•Mild flavor
•Very prolific vining plants
•Cucumis sativus

8. •Petite specialty cucumber
•Delicately sweet and
crisp, slim, smooth green fruits 5-7
inches long
•Tender skin needs no peeling
•Intermediate resistance to Powdery
Mildew
•Yields best when trellised
•Harvest 50 days from sowing seed
•Cucumis sativus

9. •Highly ornamental black 2-3 oz fruit
•Container conversation piece
•Pick from ping pong ball size until tennis
ball size
•30 or more tasty fruits per plant
•Harvest 58-62 days from transplant
•Colorful addition to a vegetable medley on
the grill
•Solanum melongena

10. •Huge crops of small orange ribbed
10 to 14-ounce fruit
•Round 2 ½ to 3-inch fruits are
perfect size for stuffing
•Insect resistant plants 24 inches tall
•Harvest 85 days from transplant
•Solanum melongena

11. •Colorful mixture of many small type
pepo gourds including egg, spoon,
warted dumpling and semi wings
•A must for everyone's fall displays and
gardens
•100 days to maturity from sowing seed
•Prolific vines spread 3 to 5-feet
•Cucurbita pepo

12. •Produces a large number of extremely
small bird house shaped fruits
•Green and tan colored 2-3 inch fruits
•Great item for toys and decorations
•Vigorous vines spread up to 10 feet
•100 to 120 days to harvest from seed
•Lagenarai siceraria

13. •Very uniform heads of iceberg lettuce
•Retains mild flavor as temperatures rise
•Slow to bolt in summer heat with good
tolerance to tip burn
•Attractive addition to sunny containers
•Harvest 73 days from sowing seed
•Lactuca sativa

14. •Large sutured cantaloupe
•Can be described as a classic
Eastern muskmelon
•Sweet tender dark salmon colored
flesh full of flavor and aroma
•Vines spread 3-5 feet
•Harvest 85 days from sowing seed
•Cucumis melo

15. •Lovely white rind and white fleshed
melon originating in Japan
•Very crisp flesh and extremely high
sugars
•8 to 10-inch oblong melons weigh 3
to 4 pounds
•Prolific vines set 6 to 7 fruit each
•Cucumis melo

16. •Outstandingly sweet and juicy
•Deep, smooth orange flesh
•Big 7 to 9-pound size family treat
•Disease resistance to Fusarium Wilt
(races 0,1, and 2) and Powdery Mildew
(races 1 and 2) makes it easier to grow
•Cucumis melo

17. •Unique orange fleshed honeydew!
•Sensational taste and sweetness
•Beautiful orange flesh transitions to
an edible green color toward the rind
•Harvest the smooth 6 to 7-inch round
fruits in 80-90 days from sowing seed
•Disease resistant 48 to 72-inch vines
•Cucumis melo

18. •To your health!
•Six most nutritious and delicious
“Best-in-Class” vegetables selected by
Burpee experts for a harvest of health
•„Boost‟ includes 3 tomatoes „Solar
Power,‟ „Power Pops,‟ and „Cherry
Punch,‟ Pepper „Sweat Heat,‟ Cucumber
„Gold Standard,‟ and lettuce „Healing
Hands Mix.‟

19. •Braised mustard greens are creamy,
nutty and nutritious
•Mix of „Segal‟ with savoy leaves
maturing from green to purple;
„Lahav‟ with serrate chartreuse
leaves; and „Green Sefiron‟ with
deeply lobed medium green leaves
•Brassica rapa

20. •Very frilled leafed mustard - beautiful!
•Leaf changes from green to red at a
very small stage
•Mild peppery flavored leaves 4 to 6
inches long
•Plant in garden or containers after the
last frost or in early fall
•Harvest 30 to 40 days from sowing seed
•Brassica japonica

21. •Dark red, globe shaped pungent onion
•3 to 4-inch fruits weigh ¾ pounds
•110 days to harvest
•Storage potential of 6 to 7 months for
this short day storage onion
•Biennial Zone 6
•Disease resistance to Pink Root
•Allium cepa

22. •Red mild tasting hybrid
•Large 1 pound globe shaped onions 2¾
to 3½ inches in size
•Storage potential of 4 to 6 months
•Harvest 100-120 days from transplant
•Biennial Zone 1
•Allium cepa

23. •White globe shaped sweet onion
•Large 1-pound, 5½ to 6 inches
•Pink Root disease resistant, bolt
resistant and resistant to greening
•Biennial Zone 6
•Harvest 110 days from transplant
•Storage potential 2 to 3 months
•Allium cepa

24. •Premium tightly curled leaves
•Outstanding bolting tolerance
•Strikingly bright green color
•Tidy bunched habit 8-10 inches tall
•Excellent choice for containers
•Both heat-tolerant and excellent for
over-wintering
•Petroselinum crispum

25. •Sweet version of favorite hot pepper
stuffer „Cherry Bomb‟
•Ready to stuff and bake in one knife move
•2 to 4-ounce fruit is about 2½” long
•Plants 2 feet tall produce 20 to 25 sweet
tasting bright red peppers
•Harvest 73 days from transplant
•Capsicum annuum

26. •First true hanging basket pepper!
•Spicy hot peppers turn from cream
to orange and maturing to red
•Small leaves don‟t hide the fruit
which pop from under the foliage
•Basal branches cascade
•Matures in 90 days
•Capsicum frutescens

27. •Tasty medium-hot flavored pepper
•Slender, flame-shaped 3-inch fruit
•Matures from green to a rich red color
•Compact, mounding plants remain a
tidy 12 inches wide and tall
•Stunning display in containers
•Matures in 65 to 75 days from sowing
•Capsicum frutescens

28. •Medium-hot type hybrid pepper
•Matures from purple to bright red
color
•3-inch long flame-shaped fruit
•Compact plants 12 inches wide and
tall are well suited to containers
•Matures in 65-75 days protected
•Capsicum frutescens

29. •Pepper collection of ancho, pasillo and chili
peppers for homemade mole recipes
•Hot and smoky flavored 2 to 2.5-inch fruits
•Tall bushy plant suitable for containers
•Plant produces 20 to 25 peppers
•Harvest ripe red peppers about 130 days
from sowing seed
•Capsicum annuum

30. •Large Jack-O-Lantern type pumpkin
with thick flesh and a sturdy handle
•Dark orange color and deep ribs that
give fruits a unique “wrinkled” look
•Plants produce large yields of 20-30
pound barrel-shaped fruits
•This good tasting fall decorator can be
harvested in 100-110 days
•Cucurbita pepo

31. •Smooth, dark green arrowhead
shaped leaves
•Long 6 to 8-inch stems
•Uniform plants with an upright habit
•Fast growing, just 35 days to harvest
•Resistant to downy mildew races 1-
7, 9 and 11
•Spinacia oleracea

32. •Golden-yellow egg-shaped squash
•Measures up to 5 inches across
•Boasts succulent sweet creamy flesh with
hints of chartreuse
•Best-tasting squash in the Burpee taste
trials two years in a row
•Harvest 41 days from sowing seed
•Cucurbita pepo

33. •New from Cornell – a small butternut
that is an orange-buff color
•Fruits are 4 to 5 inches long and
weigh 5 to 8 ounces
•Great item for any home garden
•Vines spread 30 to 50 inches
•Harvest 100 days from sowing seed
•Cucurbita moschata

34. •Fine grained, orange flesh
•Sweet, nutty flavor - good for baking
•Beautiful orange and green skinned
pear-shaped squash of 5 to 7 pounds
•Vines spread 3-4 feet
•Matures in 85 to 105 days
•Cucurbita pepo

35. •Miniature ornamental squash with a
turban-like shape
•Eye-catching brightly colored orange
stem end with a creamy top
•Fruits are 3 to 6 inches in diameter
•Vines spread 3 to 5 feet
•Matures in 80 to 100 days from seed
•Cucurbita maxima

36. •Grown for their tasty spectacular
seeds flavored like pumpkin seeds
•Round 12-inch tan fruit with green
stripes
•Fruit weigh 5 pounds
•Vines spread 3 to 5 feet
•4 to 8 fruits per plant
•Cucurbita mixta

37. •Bred from all-time great „Big Boy‟
•Upright plants produce delicious
harvests of ruby red round meaty fruits
•Robust tomato flavor
•Tips the scales at whopping 15 ounces
•Enhanced disease resistance
•Matures 119 days from sowing seed
•Lycopersicon esculentum

38. As the name implies, cherry sized and
cherry colored fruit cascades to form a
waterfall of about 300 fruits
Sweet and juicy 1.5 inch half ounce
fruit
Well suited for baskets, window boxes
and mixed combination pots
Ripens in 68-72 days from transplant
Solanum lycopersicum

39. •First high-anthocyanin (pigment
shown to fight disease in humans)
tomato commercially available
•Vibrant indigo, almost blue skin on
portion of fruit exposed to light
•2-inch, round fruit
•Good flavored red interior flesh
•Lycopersicon lycopersicum

40. •A must for container gardens
•Compact determinate plant
•Unlike other determinates, it can be
harvested a longer period of time
•Sweet, bright-red grape type fruits
mature early
•Lycopersicon lycopersicum