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Vegetables New Varieties For 2014. 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. W. Atlee Burpee & Co. Basil ‘Bam’.
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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 • Ocimumbasilicum W. Atlee Burpee & Co. Basil ‘Bam’
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 • Ocimumbasilicum Johnny’s Selected Seeds Basil ‘Dolly’
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 • Vignaunguiculata spp. sesquipedialis Terra Organics, LLC Bean ‘Asparagus Red Podded’
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 Harris Seeds Bean ‘Mascotte’ 2014 AAS Winner
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 Harris Seeds Bean ‘Savannah’
Cross between a purple snap bean • and a pinto bean • Pod color is dusty red-rose • Stringless pods are 4-5 inches long • Bush habit • Harvest 52-58 days from sowing seed • Phaseolus vulgaris Terra Organics, LLC Bean ‘Red swan’
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 Johnny’s selected seeds Beet ‘Babybeat’
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 Bejo Seeds, Inc. Beet ‘Boldor’
‘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 Johnny’s selected seeds Carrot ‘Adelaide’
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 • Daucuscarota Seminis home garden Carrot ‘Anthonina’
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 Sakata Seed America, Inc. Collard ‘tiger’ f1
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 Botanical Interests Cucumber ‘Baby hYBRID’
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 Johnny’s Selected Seeds Cucumber ‘Iznik’
AAS Regional Winner (Heartland & Great Lakes) • Early to set fruit • Prolific quantity of sweet tasting fruit • Compact bush-type plants can grown in patio containers. • Disease resistance to CMB, Scab, MMV • Cucumis sativus Seeds By Design & Burpee Cucumber ‘Pick a Bushel’ F1
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 Harris Seeds Cucumber ‘Silver slicer’
‘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 Johnny’s Selected Seeds Eggplant ‘Raja’ & ‘Suraj’
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 Seeds By Design, Inc. Kale ‘White Russian’
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 Bejo Seeds Inc. Leek ‘Rally’
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 Seeds By Design, Inc. Lettuce ‘Susan’
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 Terra Organics, LLC Melon ‘Haogen’
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 • Psiumsativum Botanical Interests Microgreens ‘Peas for Shoots’
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 Seeds By Design, Inc. Okra ‘Jing Orange’
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 Dixondale Farms Onion ‘Red River’
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 • Pisumsativum Terra Organics, LLC Pea ‘Blue Podded’
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 Johnny’s Selected Seeds Pepper ‘Aura’ & ‘Glow’
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 W. Atlee Burpee & Co. Pepper ‘Thunderbolt Hybrid’
Sweet Italian pepper delicious fresh and excellent grilled or roasted • Compact 24” bushy plant produces 30 bright yellow pendant fruits • Harvest 85 days after transplanting • Disease tolerance to TMV • Capsicum annuum Seeds By Design Pepper ‘Mama Mia Giallo’ F1
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 Sakata Seed America, Inc. Pepper ‘Mosquetero’
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 Syngenta Seeds Inc. Pepper ‘Red Belt’
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 Seminis Home Garden Pepper ‘Wizard (with x3R®)’
AAS Regional Winner (Southeast, Heartland and Mountain/Southwest) • First hybrid Cinderella-type pumpkin • Robust vines produce large 18-20 pound fruits with sweet nutty flavor Powdery Mildew resistance • Cucurbita maxima Seeds By Design Pumpkin ‘Cinderella’s Carriage’ F1
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 Pro-Veg Seeds Ltd. Radish ‘Dragon’ F1
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 Seeds By Design, Inc. Radish ‘Halloween Mix’
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 Terra Organics, LLC Squash ‘Honeynut’
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 Sakata Seed America, Inc. Squash ‘Primavera’ F1
Personal sized Kabocha winter squash • Great ornamental and delicious edible • ‘ShokichiShrio’ is gray • ‘Shokichi Green’ is green • Small single-serving size ½-1¼ lbs. • High yielding 6-10 fruits per plant • Cucurbita maxima Johnny’s Selected Seeds Squash ‘Shokichi Green’ & ‘ShokichiShrio’
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 Seeds By Design, Inc. Squash ‘Tahitian Butternut’
Exclusive to Johnny’s - new group of small-fruited (25-30 grams) striped tomatoes with exceptional flavor • Shapes are elongated, round, mini-plum and julienne • Colors are yellow, green, pink, purple, blush with varied striping • Solanum lycopersicum Johnny’s Selected Seeds Tomato ‘Artisan ’ assortment
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 W. Atlee Burpee & Co. Tomato ‘Baby Boomer Hybrid’
Hybrid derived from popular heirloom ‘Amana Orange’ • Superior taste and texture • Indeterminate tomato • Harvest 75 days from transplant • Resistance to TMV, Crack, Anthracnose • Solanum lycopersicon Seeds By Design Tomato ‘Chef’s Choice ORANGE’ f1
Early maturing, high-yielding grape tomato producing about 350 fruits • Bred for hanging baskets, container gardens and small gardens • Long clusters of sweet tasty fruits • Resistance to Late Blight • Solanum lycopersicon Pro-Veg Seeds Tomato ‘Fantastico’
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 PanAmerican Seed Co. Tomato ‘Homeslice’
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 PanAmerican Seed Co. Tomato Indigo ‘Sun’ F1Bumper Crop Grafted Tomato
AAS Regional Winner (Heartland) • 10-14 ounce firm round beefsteak with good sugar and acid balance • Deep red color inside & out • Vigorous tall bushy determinate plant • Superb disease resistances • Solanum lycopersicum NCSU & Bejo Seeds, Inc. Tomato ‘Mountain Merit’
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 W. Atlee Burpee & Co. Tomato ‘SteakHouse Hybrid’
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 W. Atlee Burpee & Co. Tomato ‘Summer Girl Hybrid’
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 • Citrulluslanatus Seeds By Design, Inc. Watermelon ‘Triple Baby’ F1