"If you would have a lovely garden, you should live a lovely life."
Traditional Shaker Saying
Bean Derby Park Seed
Keeps Producing Tender, Delicious Beans All Spring and Into Summer! 57 days
- A dependable, heavy-yielding snap bean of high eating quality. The plant continues to flower from spring right into summer, producing beans for nonstop picking week after week! A great mainstay of the family vegetable garden, this super performer is not only prolific but very tasty. The beans are straight, 6 inches long, with a round, smooth pod and succulent seeds. A terrific all-around bean!
Bean Roma II Park Seed
Heavy Yields over a Long Season on This Classic Romano! 5 1/2-inch pods are
bursting with flavor! 59 days - These 5 1/2-inch pods are fleshy, tender,
and dark green, bursting with flavor and nutrition! Roma II is an improved
Italian type with early-bearing abilities and slow seed development, so the
harvest extends much longer. No need to frantically eat, can, or freeze all the
year's beans in one weekend with Roma II! The upright bushes offer tremendous
yields in just the amounts you want, when you want them. Easy to pick!
Pole Lima Beans, King of the Garden
A terrific grower!! Largest of all limas. 88 days - Old
favorite is a strong grower that clings well to poles. King of the Garden Lima
Beans are very productive, bears 4-6 in. pods until frost, each filled with 4-6
big cream-colored seeds. Harvest when pods become plump; eat the meaty
seeds either fresh or dried.
Broccoli Packman Hybrid Park Seed
Massive 8-inch Heads Won't Bolt in the Heat and Great Side-Shoot Production!
57 days from setting out transplants. Packman isn't playing around -- you'll get
enormous yields of giant 8-inch heads from these vigorous plants, plus plenty of
smaller heads from robust side-shoot production! The delicious medium-to-small
beads are densely-set on these domed heads, which extend above the foliage on
the plant -- the easiest ever to harvest! But the best thing about Packman
Hybrid is its ability to withstand heat. If you live in a warm area -- or just
run a little late getting out your spring crop-- Packman is the broccoli you
need!
Jade Cross Hybrid Brussels Sprout
Early and Heat Tolerant! Harvest through first frost! 82 days - Blue-green sprouts are crisp
and have a mild flavor. Jade Cross tolerates heat and resists bolting.
You'll think it's a different vegetable. If you've never grown brussels sprouts
before, you're in for a treat! Jade Cross Hybrid Brussels Sprout stands the
heat, and always sets a bumper crop of very firm, tightly wrapped, blue-green
"sprouts" with mild, sweet flavor. Vigorous plants are widely adapted.
Garden-grown sprouts are sweet, delicious and far
superior to supermarket types. For peak flavor, harvest after frost
Cabbage Everlast Hybrid Park Seed
Early, Packed with Flavor, and Long-lasting! 53 days - Get more cabbage in
every head with heavy, densely-packed Everlast, the best variety we have ever
grown for sheer staying power in the field! The mid-sized heads are blue-green,
with excellent wrappers and a smooth, uniform appearance. The surprise comes
when you pick them up. Each head weighs 2 to 3 pounds -- and it's all leaves!
Very sweet and juicy, Everlast doesn't sacrifice one drop of good flavor if held
in the field!
Snow Crown Hybrid Cauliflower
Flavorful crops in fall or spring! 55 days - Snow Crown Hybrid
Cauliflower is one of the easiest cauliflowers to grow. Vigorous, rapid growth
and long harvest. Snow white, 2-lb. heads are 7-8 in. across and very flavorful.
Give cauliflower fertile
soil, full sun and steady moisture and you'll be rewarded with large, delicious
heads that are high in vitamin C.
Carrot Scarlet Nantes Park Seed
Quick to Mature and Extra-Sweet! 6- to 7-inch roots are sweet, tender, and
crisp! 62 days - Pushing its deep orange-red shoulders up to the
surface days and even weeks sooner than most others, Scarlet Nantes is an
exceptionally sweet variety just made for slicing! The 6- to 7-inch roots are
firm, straight, and not tapered, with inconspicuous cores and plenty of tender,
crisp, and ultra-sweet flavor in every bite.
Celery Tango Hybrid Park Seed
The Tastiest Celery Yet! Tango is Vigorous, Heavy-Yielding, and Delicious!
85 days - So improved over older varieties that it's almost an entirely new
plant, Tango Hybrid delivers yields and flavor like you've never seen before!
The stalks are wonderfully crunchy and sweet, springing up from exceptionally
vigorous, robust plants. Tolerance of Fusariums makes all the difference in the
yields, which are superb. And they mature early, giving you a few more weeks of
delicious celery-eating every season! If you have never had much luck with
celery before, give Tango Hybrid a try!
Corn Silver Queen Hybrid Park Seed
The Classic White Sweet Corn! Tender, Crisp, and Sweet! 92 days - By
far the most popular white Regular Sweet variety, Silver Queen earns her fame
with superior production and unbelievably mouth-watering flavor. These gigantic
8-foot stalks yield a great bounty of 8- to 9-inch ears, each stuffed with
crisp, tender, sweet white kernels arrayed in 14 to 16 jam-packed rows.
Resistance to Bacterial Wilt means even bigger harvests!
Cucumber Diva Park Seed
The Most Delicious Burpless Cuke Yet! Heavy-yielding plants resist just about
every pest and disease! 58 days from sowing, 32 days from transplants. Diva
is simply delectable, with thin, tender skin, crisp flesh, and a flavor that
combines sweetness with a genuine cucumber bite impossible to find in the bland
supermarket varieties today. It arises very abundantly on vigorous,
disease-resistant plants, giving you a huge crop of the finest burpless cucumber
I have tasted in a long time! No wonder it's a 2002 All America Selection!
Lettuce Green Ice Park Seed
This Reliable Favorite Won't Bolt in the Heat! Juicy, bright leaves of dark
green are lightly savoyed for extra crispness! 45 days - Green Ice is one of
the crispest, most satisfying loose-leaf lettuces you can grow. The leaves are
glossy, dark green, and savoyed, giving them extra-crunchy texture in every
bite. Ready in just 45 days, they are among the earliest, yet last well into
summer, thanks to superior heat tolerance. This is one loose-leaf that just
won't bolt! A distinctly different look and appeal, combining the large, ruffled
look of a looseleaf with the crunchiness of a crisphead. Gardeners have enjoyed
its bounty for years!
Lettuce Green Towers Park Seed
The Best for Flavor, Yields, and Ease of Growth! The classic name in Romaine!
60 days - The gardener's favorite, and no wonder -- you can't beat these mildly-flavored, slightly savoyed leaves for dense growth and good adaptability to anything Nature throws their way. Reaching 8 to 12 inches high and wide, these dark gray-green heads are crisp and flavorful, suitable for both spring and fall crops. Ready just 2 months after sowing, Green Towers is a delectable Romaine, dependable and delicious no matter what your growing conditions!
Lettuce Buttercrunch Park Seed
Juicy-Crisp Leaves with a Satisfying Bite! A classic favorite for high-quality
flavor. 65 days - One of the classic butterheads, Buttercrunch combines good garden performance with tender-crisp flavor. The leaves are very dark green and thicker than most, with a crisp texture and juicy bite. They are loosely-held on big heads that grow more vigorously than many others, ready in just 65 days. So high-performing and satisfying that it won an AAS award, Buttercrunch is the highest-quality eating butterhead-type we know.
Lettuce Little Gem Park Seed
Eat These Space-Saving Small Heads Whole! Great for small-space gardens, window
boxes, or the gourmet row! 50 days - Grow the sweetest, most tender
butterhead (Boston) lettuce you've ever tasted in just 50 days with this petite
gourmet treat! The perfect variety for windowbox gardens, limited spaces, and
those hard-to-fill corners in the vegetable garden, Little Gem bears dark green
heads just 5 inches across and packed with tender-fresh sweetness! Just wash
these attractive little heads and serve them whole as the center of a composed
salad, or use them as super-sweet, soft wrappers for appetizers and finger food!
Children love them, too, for their non-astringent flavor and midget size.
Salad Bowl Lettuce
If I could grow only one loose-leaf lettuce variety, this would be the one!!
45 days - Top quality! Salad Bowl Lettuce is close-set, deep-lobed, brilliant
green leaves--easy to harvest. Noted for lasting sweetness and tenderness. Stays
crisp and tasty even after the weather becomes hot.
Lettuce Summertime Park Seed
The Best Iceberg -- Great for Warm Climates! 70 days -
Summertime has all the true iceberg quality you want in a top-notch crisphead
lettuce. The dense, tight heads are 6 to 8 inches across, packed with fresh,
sweet leaves. They keep their flavor and texture during the growing season by
large outer wrapper leaves, enabling them to succeed even in warmer climates
where other icebergs are not happy. So early that it reaches maturity by early
summer, this plant offers sweet leaves without a trace of bitterness. Summertime
is simply the best iceberg we've ever seen, grown, or (most importantly!)
tasted.
Egyptian Walking Onion Park Seed
All Parts of this
Remarkable Onion are Edible! Chop the stalks for scallions and the bulb and
bulbils for onions! All parts of this remarkable plant are edible, and it's such
a unique and fun plant to see in the mundane vegetable patch!
Onion Candy Hybrid Park Seed
Plants, Bareroot. A Revolutionary "Mid-Day" Flavor -- Short-Day Sweetness Plus Long-Day
Bite! A taste sensation! Order in Groups of 2 or More! It grows just about anywhere in the
contiguous U.S.! 135 days - Candy has taken American gardens by storm! No matter where you live, you can grow this huge, savory yellow onion, with thick, succulent flesh and a delicious flavor both sharp and sweet! Candy stores for months -- if you can resist them that long, that is! Candy is a revolutionary new type of onion. Neither a long-day (Northern) nor short-day (Southern) variety, Candy is a "mid-day" or day-neutral variety. This means that it can be grown just about anywhere from the far north to the deep south. And it's earlier, larger, and more flavorful than its long- and short-day varieties. By combining the best of both in terms of flavor, holding ability, and earliness, Candy is unsurpassed for performance and taste!
Onion Stockton Sweet Red Park Seed
Plants, Bareroot. The Classic Northern and
Midwestern "Mid-Day" -- Order in Groups of 2 or More!
Bright red bulbs surprise with white flesh! 90 days - A trusted performer for many years, Stockton Sweet Red may be the original "mid-day" or intermediate-day onion. The bulbs have bright red skin and clean white flesh, with a crisp, sweet flavor. Plants are especially high-performing in the north and midwestern U.S.
Pea Mr. Big Park Seed
Jumbo Pods are Supersweet and Early to Mature! This AAS Winner is tops in taste,
size, yield, and culture! 60 days - If there is a better English Pea anywhere than Mr. Big, we have yet to hear of it! This AAS winner is simply tops, with larger-than-life flavor, size, and yields! It's easy to grow and superbly disease-resistant. What more can a pea offer? These plump, easy-to-shell pods reach 4 to 4 1/2 inches long, crammed with fat peas (about 8 per pod) boasting a rich, sugary flavor. They arise early on indeterminate plants that show great resistance to Race 1 Wilt and Powdery Mildew. And the pods stay colorful and firm on the plant, even if it takes you a bit longer than usual to harvest them! Mr. Big is not fussy about growing conditions, but you will have to stake it. With yields like this, it needs some support!
Sugar Ann Snap Pea
Stringless and Early! 56 days - Beats Sugar Snap by weeks! Sugar Ann Snap
Peas stay sweet, crisp and truly delicious. Stringless. Dwarf plants.
Pepper Parks' Whopper (tm) Improved Hybrid Park Seed
Delicious Giant Peppers and Plenty of Them! Our Best Giant Main-Season Green
Pepper! 71 days - Fully 4 inches across and 4 inches long, this giant
main-season bell is unsurpassed for appearance as well as taste! Inevitably
drawing astonished stares in our trial gardens, the 4-lobed fruits have very
thick walls and a sweet, juicy, crisp and tender flavor perfect for raw or
cooked eating. Plants bear excellent yields, their foliage shielding the fruit
from sunscald. As the peppers mature, they turn from bright green to red and the
flavor sweetens still further. Resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Whopper
Improved receives top ratings from Florida to California! We are proud to give
it our stamp of approval, the High Performer symbol.
Pepper Park's Sweet Banana Whopper Improved Hybrid Park Seed
Hybrid Vigor and Homegrown Taste! Among the biggest, tastiest, and most prolific
peppers you will ever grow! 65 days - We believe that this banana pepper is
simply the most prolific--by quite a lot!--we have ever trialled! And it's also
one of the biggest, with thick-walled peppers stretching 6 to 8 inches long. But
its supreme asset is yield--these plants produce masses of peppers with a
scrumptious flavor--tangy, crisp, and sweet! Plants are vigorous and very
healthy. Unbeatable!
Sweet Banana Sweet Pepper
What a performer!! A great mild and sweet pepper to grow. 68
days - Sweet Banana Sweet Pepper is an elongated, 6-inch peppers which turn
scarlet when fully ripe but stay sweet and mild. Delightful in salads,
exquisitely pungent pickled. Famous for its amazing yields.
Potato Yukon Gold Park Seed
The Best Yellow for Baking! This popular European type yields big, yummy spuds
early in the season! 70 to 90 days - Yukon Gold is so richly flavored that your guests will ask if you already added the butter! This superb baking variety sets an early harvest of large, scrumptious spuds you will find irresistible in soups and side dishes as well as straight from the oven! Yukon Gold is the most popular yellow-skinned variety for baking, and it's easy to see why. It harvests early -- closer to 70 days than 90, and far ahead of the 100 to 110 typical of midseason types. The tubers are rounded, blocky, and packed with succulent flesh, with thin skins just perfect for eating.
Roma (VF) Tomato
If you love making rich, thick pasta sauce or big batches of salsa, Roma is the tomato for
you! 75 days - Premium canner, ideal for sauce and paste. Pear-shaped
scarlet fruits of the Roma (VF) Open-Pollinated Tomato are thick and meaty with
few seeds and the flavor is so good many chefs prefer Roma in salads. Plants are resistant to verticilium and fusarium wilt.
Determinate.
Chives, Regular Onion
What a super hardy perennial herb!! 80 days from seeds - Harvest
the onion flavored leaves when small. They are great on baked
potatoes. When the leaves mature, they will produce very attractive
lavender flowers.
Oregano Herbs
A great perennial herb for drying!! The Ever-Popular "Pizza Herb" 90 days from seeds - Pungent
flavor and scent favored for authentic Italian foods. Oregano is a must in pizza
and spaghetti sauces. Best harvested when buds just begin to open.
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