General Gardening

Peppers Types

Sustainable Gardening

“Waste not want not.” Learn how to create a sustainable garden.

Front Yard Vegetable Garden

On your way home from work, stop and grab a salad. And hey, grab a bouquet of flowers, too. No need to go to the grocery store. Pick them up on your way in the front door. Pick them from your front yard.

Staking and Supports

Wrassling with a toppling six-foot-tall plant can be a struggle that is hard on gardeners as well as on blooms and fruit. So corral and support those plants with cages, stakes, trellises and arbors before they become overpowering.

Floating Row Covers

Winter Sown Vegetables

Winter Sown Vegetables.

Second Year Gardening

Did you grow your first vegetable garden last year? Was it all that you hoped for? Are you planning to try again this year?

What Is An Heirloom

Heirloom varieties are open-pollinated--meaning that the seeds you collect from one year will produce plants with most of the characteristics of the parent plant.

Pickling

Pickles dress up everything from sandwiches to salads. While it
may seem a complex process to transform a cucumber into a pickle, it's
actually relatively easy.

Bees, Glorious Bees

One of the most invaluable living things on the planet is less than one inch long and lives for only a few months – the busy little honeybee.

Hot Weather Tips For Tomatoes

Folding Plant Supports

Grow your best Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplants by using these folding and stackable plant supports.

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Focus On: Using a Cold Frame

Used for hundreds of years.

Sustainable Vegetable Gardening

Feeling good is part of the harvest.

Cover Crops

Fall planted cover crops help your soil and look great all winter. Watch how easy it is to plant.

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Extending the season with frost protection

Getting the most out of your garden.

Using Vegetables From Stem-to-Root

By consuming only part of our vegetables, we miss opportunities for added flavor and nutrition and waste food.

Start Your Garden with Cool Season Vegetables

Extending the season with cool weather vegetables will keep your dinner table full of fresh nutritious vegetables for at least a few weeks longer.

Frost Protection for Early Planting

The start of the gardening season revolves around when the last frost occurs.

Short Season Vegetable Gardening

Extending the growing season.

Having a garden party

Summertime is prime time for garden parties.

Companion Planting Guide

In plant communities, certain plants support each other while others, well, just don’t get along. Plants, like people, compete for resources.

Burpee’s Boost Vegetables

This year, vegetables are better for you than ever.

Burpee Garden-Ready Plants

Tomatoes, Peppers, Herbs, Annual and Perennial plants delivered right to your door at the best time for planting. Exclusive collection of varieties you won’t find in any store.

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