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Pole Beans Early Spanish Musica
START SEEDS OUTDOORS
In spring once weather is warm and night temperatures stay securely above 55°F (13°C), plant seeds in well-worked, fertile soil in full sun. Erect strong stakes, tripod poles, or trellis at planting time to support vines. Plant seeds 1 inch deep and 4 inches apart along a trellis, or if planting around tripods or stakes, plant 4 to 6 seeds 4 inches from each pole, thinning seedlings to 3 best plants.
GROWING NOTES
Tender, crispy beans are an easy, reliable crop to grow, but don’t plant too early, as weather under 50°F (10°C) prevents good germination. If first sowing comes up unevenly, replant right away; new seedlings catch up quickly. Birds are often attracted to young bean seedlings, so watch carefully and protect with netting or floating row covers if necessary. Avoid cultivating plants or picking pods when plants are wet.
HARVEST AND USE
Musica vines are heavy bearing, so harvest often: the more you pick, the more beans plants will produce. Harvest when beans are 7-9 inches long, but before seeds are swelled in pods. Slice up and cook just until tender to enjoy their sweet nutty flavor and juicy texture. Serve hot, or let the cooked beans cool, then toss with herbed vinaigrette for a delicious green bean salad.
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Chantenay Carrots Short Stuff
START SEEDS OUTDOORS
In spring once danger of hard frost is past, sow seeds in full sun in finely worked, fertile soil. Sow 1/4 inch deep and 1/2 inch apart in rows 8 inches apart, or broadcast seeds thinly in beds and cover lightly.
Keep seed bed evenly moist as carrots can be slow to germinate, emerging over 10 to 21 days. If first sowing comes up unevenly, replant right away as seedlings catch up quickly. Thin young carrots several times so seedlings are 2 to 3 inches apart and have room to size up.
GROWING NOTES
Carrots like well worked soil and need consistent moisture to grow well. If your soil tends to dry out, cover seedbed with floating row covers to help retain moisture during the germination period. Keep carrots well weeded throughout the growing season. Plant again 3 months before first expected fall frost for a late crop.
HARVEST AND USE
Let carrots size up to 4 to 5 inches long before pulling for best sweet flavor. Enjoy raw, sliced up as tasty fresh snacks, or sauté, steam, stirfry or braise. Cut in chunks and toss with oil, then roast until tender and sprinkle with fresh herbs, just before serving.
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Heirloom and Specialty Onions Italian Torpedo Tropea
This wonderful old Italian specialty onion is originally from Tropea, the Calabrian town in Italy known for its superb cuisine. Italian torpedo onions can be used in any stage. When pulled as baby onions, just as the stems start to swell, their beautiful, bright magenta color, mild flavor and crunchy texture shines in salads.
When they bulb up, they have an elongated torpedo shape and develop deep pungent flavor, delicious sautéed as a colorful base for any dish, roasted whole, barbecued on skewers or adding color and punch to sandwiches. These uniquely shaped, old-fashioned onions belong in everyone's kitchen garden. Stores well for about 3 months after harvest.
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Long Keeping Onions Redwing Long Keeping Red
These big, 3-4 inch, globe-shaped hybrid onions have beautiful glossy skins and dark red to rich deep purple flesh that adds crunch and color to any dish. Cut them into lavish crispy red ring slices for wonderful sandwiches, in salads or with juicy hamburgers. They're also perfect for potato and pasta salads, in chili, hearty chili and in any kind of salsa.
Redwing onions have dense, solid slightly pungent flesh. String up a bunch to grace your kitchen until needed. After harvest, these beauties continue to develop internal deep purple color and store well so you can use them for 6 to 8 months.
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Heirloom and Specialty Onions Borettana Cipollini
These pretty little Italian heirlooms have a flattened spherical shape and look just like rosy-bronze glossy buttons, each about 2 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick. They have firm, fine-grained flesh, well-developed flavor and satiny skins. Cipollinis are traditionally served whole, braised in a sweet and sour sauce or marinated in a balsamic vinaigrette.
You'll also find them delicious roasted whole in butter or olive oil, threaded on skewers for kebabs or used as pretty little boiling onions. When cooked, they really sweeten up and caramelize to a beautiful color. These intermediate/long day little onions will store well for about five months.
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California Early
Developed by California growers, this reliable, popular softneck is for everyone who loves a mild but true garlic flavor. The generous sized cloves slip apart easily and the heads are perfect for roasting whole.
These handsome heads are white-skinned with occasional pink blush. Good choice for harvesting early as "green garlic." Mature heads are perfect for braiding. Early maturity.
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All Purpose Onions Candy All-Purpose Yellow
This handsome, bronze-skinned hybrid onion grows successfully just about all over the country and it's the perfect onion to try if you haven't grown them before. All-purpose Candy produces big, softball sized, globe-shaped onions, with a mild onion flavor and firm crispy yellow flesh that is delicious raw or cooked. Candy onions caramelize beautifully when chopped and sautéed.
Candy onions are particularly easy to grow with excellent disease resistance and a strong, vigorous root system. These big solid onions will keep crisp and firm for about three months after harvest.
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All Purpose Onions Red Candy Apple
These beautiful globe-shaped hybrid red onions, aptly named Red Candy Apple, form slightly flattened bulbs with absolutely glowing magenta-red skins and sweet, slightly pungent flesh. Plants grow steadily and produce bountiful harvests of firm and uniform 3 inch bulbs in short and intermediate day areas. To size up in long day areas, Red Candy Apple will need extra nitrogen-rich fertilizer applications.
These crispy beauties cook up very well, holding their body and color in any way you decide to enjoy them. Delicious in salads, sandwiches, on pizzas and with breakfast potatoes. Red Candy Apple onions will keep well for about two months after harvest.
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Sweet and Mild Onions Walla Walla Sweet
Long celebrated for their succulent, sweet, mild flesh, Walla Walla Sweets have been favorites since the early 1900s when they were originally brought here from France. These big, yellow, semi-flat yellow skin bulbs have crunchy white flesh that is simply delicious either raw or cooked. We like them just baked in their own papery skins like a russet potato – they are that good!
Walla Walla plants will produce harvests all over the long and intermediate day areas of the country, but pungency will vary depending on your climate and garden soil. They are short keepers, so enjoy them for 4 to 6 weeks after harvest for their exceptional flavor.
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Musik
This famous hardneck is named after Al Musik who found it on a trip to Italy in the 1980s. Known for sweet, hot pungent flavor. Bulbs are a uniform shape, white with a hint of pink.
The very large cloves are tightly encased in wrapper leaves but peel out easily. Uniformly high-yielding and vigorous, cold-tolerant Musik is one of the very earliest varieties to mature. Early to mid-season maturity.
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Elephant Garlic
(Allium ampeloprasum)
Not really a true garlic, Elephant garlic is more closely related to the leek family. Its common name probably came from its giant size. Each big clove can be almost the size of a whole head of regular garlic!
Elephant Garlic flavors most dishes with a softer, less intense flavor than regular garlic. Perfect for a mellow, sweet garlic taste that doesn't overpower other ingredients. Bake the big cloves and spread their succulent roasted interiors to top bruschetta or baked potatoes. Excellent for soups and stews. Medium to late maturity.
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Heirloom Russian Banana Fingerlings
These oblong fingerling potatoes originally came from the Baltic region of Northeastern Europe. Tender Russian Banana potatoes have thin skins with firm, buttercream colored delicious flesh. They range in size from 3 to 4 inches long, with dense flesh that cooks up solid, keeps its shape well and slices neatly.
These gourmet fingerlings have a rich, chestnuty flavor and waxy texture perfect in potato salads. You'll love them slowly roasted with whole garlic cloves, steamed to serve hot and fragrant with butter and rosemary or parboiled to skewer for the barbecue. Russian Bananas are heavy producers, good keepers, widely adapted and drought tolerant.
Late: 95-125 days / Type: Indeterminate
1 lb. bag (plants a 10 foot row)
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Long Keeping Onions Patterson Long Keeping
Patterson is the best variety for gardeners in the Northeast, and Northern parts of the Midwest who want rich, full flavored onions for extended storage. Hybrid Patterson has layered bronze wrapper skins that stay intact, protecting the dense yellow flesh.
These uniform, globe-shaped 3 inch bulbs are pungent and full-flavored main dish onions, well-suited to a wide range of stewing, sautéing, and baking uses and a top choice for homemade onion rings and long cooking soups and stews. Excellent keepers, easy to grow and rot resistant, crispy Patterson will be your staple at a storage potential of 9 to 12 months.
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Spanish Roja
A prize for all serious garlic lovers, heirloom Spanish Roja is a hardneck rocambole garlic renowned for its complex, rich flavor. Originally brought to the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800s, Spanish Roja is a longtime regional favorite that fully deserves its stellar taste reputation among discerning cooks everywhere.
Spanish Roja bulb wrappers are white or lightly striped, with plump and especially easy to peel red-skinned cloves. You’ll love Roja’s superbly rich, spicy flavor. Early-midseason maturity.
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Sweet and Mild Onions Yellow Granex Super Sweet
This is the really sweet variety grown in both Vidalia, Georgia and Maui, Hawaii, then marketed by those place names as Vidalia or Maui onions. These semi-flattened, big, fat, crispy hybrid onions are so mild that you can eat them out of hand. Juicy slices are really scrumptious on burgers.
Our grower ships over 100 million of these plants to be transplanted in Vidalia every year. While they may not grow as sweet in your own garden soil, you're sure to enjoy them. With their paper thin skins, these onions keep for only up to a month, but by that time they'll be all gone!
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Terra Rosa
Terra Rosa is a full-sized, oblong variety with smooth, deep magenta skin and pink-red sweet, creamy flesh that ranks high for flavor. This high nutrient specialty potato is really handsome, but its good looks are not just skin deep, because Terra Rosa’s rich color means higher levels of bioactive antioxidants and protective carotenoids. They retain their rosy color and resist fading when cooked.
Great tasting Terra Rosa tubers are ideal for microwaving, frying and we love them as oven-baked fries. You’ll find them perfect to harvest early, at 1 1/2 to 2 inches, and quickly steam for a baby potato feast. Harvesting, some as new potatoes early won’t mean fewer big ones later either, because Terra Rosa offers strong yields. Stores well for later use.
Early to Midseason: 80-95 days / Type: Indeterminate
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Dark Red Norland
These large, rounded potatoes have deep red, almost burgundy colored skins and contrasting bright white flesh. A good choice when you want to dig some early for little red skinned baby potatoes, then leave the plants to produce full-size potatoes for later harvest.
Dark Red Norland tastes moist and smooth with a sweet, delicate flavor and they make great tasting mashed potatoes. These vigorous plants produce big, round to oblong, slightly flattened potatoes with shallow eyes that bulk up rapidly for early harvests. You'll relish them for weeks whether you eat them simply boiled, mashed, hashed or in potato salads. Dark Red Norland potatoes are widely adapted, and store very well.
Early: 60-75 days / Type: Determinate
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Easy To Grow Collection The Container Kitchen Garden
Includes Five Carefully Chosen Individual Seed Packets For Your Own Tasty Vegetables In Pots, Containers Or Windowboxes
- Super Bush Container Tomatoes: red and juicy, sweet rich flavor
- Romeo Round Container Carrots: cute and crunchy-sweet
- Garden Babies Container Lettuce: tender and pretty mini-butterheads
- Pot of Gold Chard: beautiful golden stalks and green leaves
- Cameo Container Basil: intensely perfumed true Italian basil
- Special Feature: Two Page Guide To Container Gardening. Enjoy a beautiful container garden featuring fast growing, great tasting vegetables in a wonderful range of colors.
Our Collection includes five individual seed packets of varieties developed especially for growing in pots for a delicious and ornamental kitchen garden whose fresh healthy harvests will add savor and excitement to everyday meals. You will find our packet backs offer clear and complete growing instructions for each variety, ensuring success for anyone new to growing from seed, as well as harvest tips and cooking ideas. Also included is our “how-to” guide for container gardening covering the basic gardening information needed for rewarding and bountiful harvests.
Super Bush Container Tomatoes
Perfect for pots, these full-sized tomatoes grow on dwarf 2 1/2 to 3 foot tall plants. The luscious round red fruits are full of juicy-sweet, rich tomato flavor.
Romeo Round Container CarrotsPetite ball-shaped carrots with smooth skins that need no peeling. Bred in France for great flavor and crunchy texture.
Pot Of Gold ChardReliable and highly ornamental, these vigorous vase-shaped plants have crunchy golden stems contrasting with rich green leaves. Produces abundant harvests to enjoy all season long.
Cameo Container BasilFrom our best Italian breeder. Easy growing and aromatic, “Cameo” has closely packed, fragrant big leaves on compact plants that grow about 8 inches tall. Perfect for fresh pesto and seasoning summer dishes.
Garden Babies Container LettuceDelicious and weather tolerant, these cute baby lettuces form compact 6 inch heads with soft folded leaves, a lovely buttery texture and absolutely outstanding sweet taste.
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Saffron Crocus Bulbs
Fall planted Saffron crocus have rich, violet-purple blossoms with brilliant orange/red stigmas that are the source of the aromatic, exotic and pricey (!) culinary spice saffron. As the blossoms open, it’s super easy to collect and simply air dry the stigmas from the flowers for your own fresh, first quality, intensely flavored saffron “threads” for cooking. Easily grown in the garden or containers.
Note: Saffron bulbs are shipped to you at the beginning of September for fall planting and autumn harvest. Sorry, we can not ship bulbs to Hawaii, Alaska or Canada.
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Butterfly Flowers Spinning Wheels Marigolds
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Summer/fall bloom
Frost tenderTO PLANT OUTDOORS
Sow seeds directly into well-worked garden soil in full sun once all danger of frost is past. Space seeds several inches apart and cover about 1/4 inch deep. Keep soil evenly moist while awaiting germination in 7 to 10 days. When seedlings are well established, thin them to a final spacing of 8 to 10 inches apart so these vigorous plants have room to grow and bloom. Extra thinned seedlings can be transplanted easily.
TO START EARLY INDOORS
Sow seeds several inches apart in a container of well-drained seed starting mix 4 to 6 weeks before last expected frost date. Cover 1/4 inch deep, keep moist and provide a strong light source until ready to go outside. Transplant 8 to 10 inches apart once weather warms up after gradually acclimating seedlings to outdoor conditions.
GROWING NOTES
These cheerful marigolds are quick to bloom, carefree and non-fussy. Their profusion of long lasting flowers and handsome blue-green foliage is perfect in any sunny spot and makes long blooming handsome borders. Feed and water regularly. No need to pinch these self branching productive plants. Both butterflies and pollinators of all kinds are attracted to these flowers throughout the season.
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Fragrant Sweet Peas Raspberry Twirl
ANNUAL CLIMBING VINE
Spring/summer bloom
Frost tolerantEASIEST TO START OUTDOORS
Sweet peas must have well drained soil, so dig deeply and enrich with aged manure or compost before sowing seeds. Erect a well-anchored trellis, vertical netting or other support for vines before planting. Sow seeds in full sun in cool early spring weather as early as the ground can be worked.
In mild winters, where ground does not freeze, sweet peas can be planted in fall. Seedlings will form strong root systems, then overwinter to bloom vigorously in spring. Plant sweet pea seeds 1 inch deep and 2 to 3 inches apart. When seedlings are 2 inches tall, thin to 4-5 inches apart to allow plants room to mature.
GROWING NOTES
Sweet peas bloom best when they flower before the weather gets too hot, so if spring planting, sow as early as possible, especially in regions where summer heat comes on fast. Anchor climbing supports well as these vines will grow dense and heavy with bloom. Protect seedlings from birds, slugs and snails. Mulch and keep well watered for best flower production. For longest bloom, remove faded blossoms regularly.Regular price $3.99Sale price $3.99Unit price / per -
Pollinator & Songbird Sunflowers Paintbox Bouquet
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Summer/fall bloom
Frost tenderEASIEST TO PLANT OUTDOORS
Plant in full sun in good garden soil when weather is warm and settled, all danger of frost is past and both days and nights are evenly in the 50°F (10°C) range. Poke seeds into well-worked soil about 1/2 in. deep, 4 to 5 in. apart. Press soil firmly over seeds and keep moist until seedlings emerge in 8 to 10 days. Important: when seedlings are well-established, thin them to a final spacing of 1 foot apart so plants can grow sturdy stalks and big flowers. Extra seedlings can be transplanted easily.
TO START EARLY INDOORS
Several weeks before last frost date, sow seeds ½ inch deep in individual pots of well-drained seed starting mix. Keep moist and provide a strong light source until seedlings are well established and ready to plant outside. Transplant carefully, disturbing the roots as little as possible. Space seedlings 1 foot apart so plants will have room to grow and mature.
GROWING NOTES
Growing these colorful sunflowers for pollinators and bouquets is both easy and rewarding. Make several sowings several weeks apart to have a succession of flowers in full bloom. Keep soil moist and well weeded and protect very young seedlings from birds with netting or plastic berry baskets, removing before plants get crowded.
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Pollinator Sunflowers Lemon Queen
ANNUAL
Summer/fall bloom
Frost tenderEASIEST TO DIRECTLY PLANT OUTDOORS
Plant in full sun in good garden soil only when weather is warm and settled, all danger of frost is past and both days and nights are evenly in the 50°F (10°C) range. Poke individual seeds into well-worked soil about 1/2 in. deep, 4 to 5 in. apart. Press the soil firmly over the seeds and keep the seedbed evenly moist until seedlings emerge in 8 to 10 days.
Important: when the seedlings are well-established, carefully thin them to a final spacing of 1 foot apart; this way they will have enough room to develop sturdy stalks that won’t blow over and big clusters of flowers. Any extra seedlings you remove can be transplanted elsewhere in the garden or potted up and given to friends.
GROWING NOTES
Growing these colorful sunflowers for pollinators and bouquets is both easy and rewarding. Make several sowings several weeks apart and you’ll have a succession of flowers in full bloom. Keep soil moist and well weeded and protect very young seedlings from birds with bird netting held tautly above the seedbed with supports, or use plastic berry baskets, removing baskets before plants get crowded.Regular price $3.39Sale price $3.39Unit price / per -
Bicolor Corn My Fair Lady
START SEEDS OUTDOORS
In spring, once weather is warm and settled and night temperatures stay securely above 55°F (13°C), plant seeds in well-worked, fertile soil in full sun. Poke seeds in 1 inch deep and 4 to 6 inches apart. Plant in a block of 4 side-by-side rows, each row at least 1 foot apart.
Thin seedlings to 1 foot apart when several inches tall. Protect from marauding birds if necessary. If first sowing doesn’t germinate evenly, replant right away as new seedlings catch up quickly. Make several sowings 2 or 3 weeks apart until early June to have successive harvests.
GROWING NOTES
Plant seeds in blocks of at least 4 parallel rows to ensure good wind pollination and well filled out ears. Corn is a heavy feeder, so add plenty of compost or aged manure to the soil at sowing time, and then fertilize when young plants are 10 to 12 inches tall and again as ears begin to form.
HARVEST AND USE
Well filled out ears of corn are ready to eat when the silks are very dark brown but not dried out. Test by choosing a plump ear and peeling back the husk very slightly. The kernels should be tender and milky when slit with a fingernail. My Fair Lady is an SE corn, so the tender crisp kernels will hold their sweetness after harvest.Regular price $4.89Sale price $4.89Unit price / per