This document provides descriptions of various vegetable varieties including their key characteristics such as size, color, flavor, yield, and days to maturity. The varieties described include beans, beets, carrots, cucumbers, eggplants, kale, lettuce, melons, okra, onions, peppers, pumpkins, radishes, squash, tomatoes, and watermelons.

2. •Burpee Exclusive
•Flowerless plants never bolt
•Deliriously fragrant & flavorful
•Produces all season - just won‟t quit
•Tolerates warm temperatures
•Harvest 60-120 days from transplant
•Ocimum basilicum

3. •High-yielding Genovese basil
•Upright, somewhat compact plants
•Large cupped 4-inch leaves
•Very uniform plant habit & leaf shape
•Somewhat lighter leaf color
•Choose organic or nonorganic seeds
•Ocimum basilicum

4. •Red podded bean up to 24 inches long
•Tender and very tasty, best used fried
•Small seed with a very good yield
•10 to12 foot vines
•Harvest 75 days from sowing seed
•Vigna unguiculata spp. sesquipedialis

5. •Compact plant perfect for window
boxes, containers & small gardens
•Disease resistance makes for reliable
growing & strong garden performance
•Slim, stringless, crisp textured,
flavorful pods for snacking or cooking
•Harvest 50 days from sowing seed
•Phaseolus vulgaris

6. •Robust yield, strong disease package
and truly outstanding flavor
•Dark green, straight pods with slight
sweetness, excellent tenderness
•Seeds develop slowly within the pods
so beans stay tender and “snap-able”
for a longer harvest
•Phaseolus vulgaris

7. •Phaseolus vulgaris

8. •A true baby beet well-proportioned
even when young
•Nice round taproot and smooth skin
•Small, attractive tops help to form a
well-proportioned bunch
•Perfect for cooking or steaming whole
•Beta vulgaris

9. •Gold exterior, deep rich color interior
•Sweet and mild 2-inch round fruit
•Tops are tender & sweet when young
•Perfect for fall and winter salads
•Very tolerant to foliar diseases
•Beta vulgaris

10. •„Adelaide‟ is a true baby carrot
•Has an early maturity, forming a
blunt root tip at 3-4 inches long
•Great for bunching & marketing as
true baby carrots
•Daucus sativus

11. •Vigorous deep purple standard carrot
•Can grow a very large root 10” long
•Very little core when given proper
time to mature
•Average maturity is 125-145 days
•„Anthonina‟ is perfect for juicing
•Daucus carota

12. •Exciting new high yielding, early,
Georgia type hybrid
•Wavy, lightly savoyed blue-green
leaves regrow quickly after cutting
•Upright plant has high ratio of blade
to stalk, meaning more usable leaf
per plant
•Brassica oleraecea

13. •Snack-size 4-inch gourmet type
•Thin skinned non-bitter fruit
•Crisp, firm fruits can be eaten
without peeling
•High-yielding - starts producing and
keeps producing for many months
•Cucumis sativus

14. •Mini 3-4 inch spineless, seedless
dark green snack cucumber
•Excellent flavor
•Pick daily for best quality
•Parthenocarpic and gynoecious
•Vining, requires staking
•Cucumis sativus

15. •Prolific creamy white slicing cucumber
was a favorite of taste testers
•Remarkably uniform 7-8 inch fruits
are consistently straight and abundant
•Distinctive white color, tender skin,
fresh sweetness, and pleasant crunch
•Vigorous vines resist Powdery Mildew
•Cucumis sativus

16. •„Raja‟ is white, „Suraj‟ is light purple
•Heavy-yielding Indian types have
round to egg-shaped fruits
•Compact sturdy plants produce high
yields of fruits 2.5-3 inches long
•Great fruit shape for stuffing
•Solanum melongena

17. •Sweet, mild tasting semi-savoy kale
•Wonderful in salads and stir-fries
•Leaf color similar to „Red Russian‟ but
with white midrib and veins
•Cold tolerant and hardy
•Harvest 50-60 days from sowing seed
•Brassica oleracea

18. •When cooked, has a creamy texture
and is sweet like an onion
•Edible, mild flavored stem resembles
a long, fat green onion
•Upright 2-3 foot tall fan shaped fruit
•Requires plentiful and even moisture
for good yields
•Allium porrum

19. •Frilly loose salad heads 8 inches tall
•Used for baby leaf, cut and come
again, or grown to full maturity
•Very sweet leaves and typically not
bitter when heat stressed
•Well adapted to container gardens or
raised beds
•Lactuca sativa

20. •Thick medium green flesh tinged with
salmon around seed cavity
•Unique spicy flavor
•Vigorous vines bear 10 or more 3-5
lb. round melons with smooth skin
•Harvest 80-85 days from sowing seed
•Cucumis melo

21. •Exceptionally tender shoots impart
the sweet taste of fresh peas to
salads and cooked dishes
•Easy to grow in the garden or
indoors in a shallow tray
•Best cut at 4-6” tall for fresh use
•Psium sativum

22. •An okra from Asia
•Reddish orange color
•Produces pods 6 to 7 inches
•Harvest at an early stage for most
tender 50-75 days from sowing seed
•Grow in full sun or shade
•Hibiscus esculentus

23. •Considered a long “intermediate day”
or a short “long day” variety
•Sweet flavor dark red 1 pound onion
•Boasts a strong root system
•High yield & good storage potential
•Resistant to pink root, fusarium &
bolting
•Allium cepa

24. •Blue podded soup pea
•Spectacular 5-6 foot tall plant is so
beautiful it can be grown as an
ornamental
•Requires staking
•Harvest 80-85 days from sowing seed
•Pisum sativum

25. •New specialty sweet peppers golden
yellow „Aura‟ and bright orange
„Glow‟ are shown with red „Lipstick‟
•Sweet, juicy, and thick-fleshed
•Delicious in salads, salsas or roasted
•Attractive 4-5 inch long tapered
•Capsicum annuum

26. •Burpee Exclusive
•Big beautiful sweet Marconi pepper
•Bushy upright plants produce
plentiful yields of 13-inch beauties
that transition from green to red
•Harvest 65-80 days from transplant
•Capsicum annuum

27. •Poblano (ancho) pepper with mild
to moderate heat
•Nice for stuffing, grilling,
chopping, salsa, or chili
•High yields of uniform, smooth,
dark green 2-lobed 6”x3” fruit that
turn red if left on the plant longer
•Capsicum annuum

28. •Beautiful elongated sweet bell
pepper – harvest when bright red –
about 60 days from sowing seed
•Culinary must have – sweet, juicy,
crispy crunch, smooth, firm & glossy
•Consistent size and fruit quality
•Capsicum annuum

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•High yields of sweet dark green fruit
•Well adapted for spring and summer
throughout the United States
•Blocky, smooth attractive fruit mature
from green to red
•Resistant to Bacterial Leaf Spot 0-3
•Capsicum annuum

30. •Oriental radish hybrid
•Mildly spicy, good fresh or stir fried
•2.5-3 inches long
•Bright pink skin, white flesh
•45 days to harvest
•Raphanus sativus

31. •Beautiful festive blend of black,
white, yellow and purple radishes
•Round fruits 2 to 2½ inches
•Adds spicy flavor and abundant
color to your salad or relish tray
•Harvest in 23-30 days
•Raphanus sativus

32. •A small butternut that is an orange
buff color
•Grows 4-5 inches and weighs 5-8 oz.
•Vining plant spreads 30-50 inches
•Harvest 100 days from sowing seed
•Some resistances to Powdery Mildew
•Cucurbita moschata

33. •High-yielding hybrid spaghetti squash
•Mild, slightly nutty taste
•Similar size (2.5-3 pounds) to the
standard OP variety
•Excellent uniformity in size and shape
•Harvest 90 days from sowing seed
•Curcurbita pepo

34. •Personal sized Kabocha winter squash
•Great ornamental and delicious edible
•„Shokichi Shrio‟ is gray
•„Shokichi Green‟ is green
•Small single-serving size ½-1¼ lbs.
•High yielding 6-10 fruits per plant
•Cucurbita maxima

35. •Highest sugar content of any winter
squash, gets sweeter during storage
•Huge club-shaped fruit 8-40 pounds
•Harvest 100 pounds or more per
vigorous mildew resistant vine
•Needs long warm growing season of
160-200 days from sowing seed
•Cucurbita moschata

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•Exclusive to Johnny‟s - new group of
small-fruited (25-30 grams) striped
tomatoes with exceptional flavor
•Shapes are elongated, round, miniplum and julienne
•Colors are yellow, green, pink,
purple, blush with varied striping
•Solanum lycopersicum

37. •Burpee Exclusive
•Prolific red cherry tomato
•Great big flavor packed into 1 ounce
•Patio-ready bushy determinate
plants produce right into frost
•Bumper crop of 300 little sweeties
•Solanum lycopersicon

38. •Exceptional slicer tomato 5-6 oz.
•Compact, vigorous determinate plant
•Mounded, spreading habit
•Early yields (63 days from
transplant) of bountiful harvests
•Perfect for patio containers and small
gardens
•Solanum lycopersicum

39. •Yellow cherry tomato with indigo
anthocyanin pigmentation
•Exceptional flavor, ideal balance of
sugars and acids
•Can have 8 fruit per cluster
•Harvest 1 oz. cherries 80 days from
transplant
•Solanum lycopersicum

40. •10-14 ounce firm round beefsteak
with good sugar and acid balance
•Deep red color inside & out
•Vigorous tall bushy determinate plant
•Disease resistance to fusarium 123,
verticillium, TSWV, Late Blight,
moderate early blight and nematode
•Solanum lycopersicum

41. •Burpee Exclusive - biggest tomato
ever bred - up to 3 pounds
•Loaded with true heirloom tomato
flavor and head-spinning fragrance
•Indeterminate plants produce
gorgeous, humongous fruits 75-80
days from transplant
•Solanum lycopersicum

42. •Burpee Exclusive
•Early - 49-52 days from transplant
•Round 5-6 ounce sweet juicy fruits
•Disease tolerance to Verticillum and
fusarium
•Indeterminate – requires staking
•Solanum lycopersicum

43. •Icebox type, has round shaped fruit
•Personal sized triploid with average
weight of 5-8 lbs.
•Sweet flavored deep red flesh
•Dark rind, almost black
•Harvest 65-75 days from sowing seed
•Citrullus lanatus