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Awesome Vegetable Garden
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items I plant a veggie garden every year it's a wonderful way to save on the grocery bill. Even if you don't have a lot of space many things can be planted in pots. Plants and seeds sure to make your garden awesome as well.
Asparagus is a perennial vegetable, so you just plant them once and enjoy season after season of succulent spears. Expect light cuttings in 2 years and a regular crop thereafter. This heirloom asparagus has wonderfully delicious taste. Long after har...
Asparagus, Mary Washington
Rhubarb pie is one of summers sweetest pleasures.
Rhubarb, Crimson Red
All America Selections winner. Brightly flavored and crunchy, this fine heirloom radish makes for great fresh eating all season. Round, smooth, scarlet ¾" roots with tangy, white flesh are perfect candidates for crudités, salads, or soups. Outstandin...
Radish, Cherry Belle
Cooks Garden Favorite. Hybrid. From the Dutch breeders that developed Napoli, the famous sugar carrot, comes this latest treat that sets a new standard for flavor. The 6 inch roots are bright orange with a blunt tip, retaining their extremely sweet a...
Carrot, Yaya Organic
A classic market variety, Bloomsdale Long Standing is a large, spreading spinach with meaty, savoyed, dark-green leaves with rich, nutty flavor. Offers a continuous bonanza and is slow to bolt. For first crop, sow in spring. Plant again in late summe...
Spinach, Bloomsdale Long Standing
The earlier, the better. These extra-large, extra-early tomatoes grow on a true bush. The 4" across tasty red fruits are much bigger than Early Girl and ripen just 2 days later. The 18" plants are amazingly compact and self-supporting, yet productive...
Tomato, Bush Early Girl Hybrid
Matures very quickly from seed. Green shoots have a captivating flavor. Cut 6" pieces when they are the size of a quarter. Youll love it lightly sauteed with garlic and olive oil, fresh in salads and boiled soups.
Broccoli Raab, Spring
The fastest—and whitest—cauliflower you’ll ever see. In spring, in just 33 days after transplanting.
Cauliflower, White Corona Hybrid
Early, nearly seedless fruits are a gourmet treat inside and out.
Eggplant, Early Midnight Hybrid
A favorite of American gardeners for over 80 years, vigorous 4' plants produce an abounding harvest of spineless dark-green, grooved pods. Okra adds body and flavor to soups, stews, and relishes, and can be grilled, braised, steamed, and sautéed. Thi...
Okra, Clemson Spineless
Grow your own artichokes and enjoy the large, edible flower buds at their prime.
Artichoke, Imperial Star
One of the "Three Sisters of Life" crops grown by Native Americans, squash is a vigorous and quick grower rich in fiber, potassium and antioxidants. Summer squash, such as zucchini, has tender skin packed with flavor. Winter squash, including acorn a...
Squash, Summer, Rise and Shine Hybrid
These crisp garden favorites range from the classics to sweeter lemon varieties and, of course, ones perfect for pickling. “Burpless” means the cucumbers contain little to no cucurbitacin, the compound that causes bitterness and can cause indigestion...
Cucumber, Straight Eight
Available in a rainbow of hues and a wide range of sweetness, find the right corn for every need: from eating on the cob to popping to displaying as ornamentals. And yes, you can grow corn in a patio container!
Corn, Ornamental, Glass Gem
Garlic is shown to boost the immune system thanks to antioxidant, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties.
Garlic, Early Italian
Grow your own backyard pumpkin patch! Choose from a variety of sizes, shapes and shades for fall decorating or baking. Bonus: Pumpkins are a magnificent source of Vitamin A.
Pumpkin, Mini Harvest Hybrid Blend
A milder alternative to garlic or red onions, shallots help tease out the flavors of savory sauces and meat and vegetable dishes. Seeds can be sown directly into the garden.
Shallots, Davidor
One flavorful and pretty onion. Red Candy's glossy-skinned red beauty adds color and sparkle to salads and recipes calling for a sweet, mild onion.
Onion, Red Candy
Beautiful climbers in the garden, peas are the epitome of summer goodness on a plate. Whether you prefer sitting in the sunshine and shelling them or enjoying pods and all in a variety of dishes, explore the best snap, sugar and shelling varieties.
Pea, Easy Peasy
A true superfood, sweet potatoes are a great source of vitamin A and fiber, as well as beta-carotene and other antioxidants. Plant bare roots for harvest in as little as 90 days.
Sweet Potato Collection
Once you grow your own honey-sweet, juicy cantaloupe, you’ll never settle for the grocery store or salad bar again. This vine-growing fruit’s seeds can be sown directly into the ground.
Cantaloupe Seeds - Ambrosia Hybrid - Organic Melon Seeds
The standard bell for many decades, this 1928 introduction is still the largest open-pollinated, heirloom bell pepper you can grow.
Pepper, Sweet, California Wonder
The small, robust green heads are perfect for individual salads, and its firm upright habit makes it great for sandwiches as well. An heirloom all-star, Little Gem is the one to grow for Hearts of Romaine.
Lettuce, Little Gem
Loads of mildly pungent, 4" heart-shaped fruits that ripen from dark green to deep red.
Pepper, Hot, Poblano (Ancho)
Packed with Vitamins A, C and K, as well as calcium, iron and magnesium, this Southern cuisine staple lends flavorful heft to soups and stews and shines as a side dish. Plant in spring and again in late summer for a fall to winter harvest.
Collards, Georgia
The quality standard for gourmet sauces, this pungent and vigorous root vegetable is ready for harvest into fall and winter.
Horseradish, Maliner Kren