Fun with peppers: Beyond the bell
Bill Calkins Burpee Program Representative
Peppers are the second or third most popular vegetable plant to grow in home gardens (after tomatoes and neck and neck with cucumbers). For good reasons - there are many different kinds and they are fun....
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Our Top 10 for 2018
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
The Burpee plant team is very excited for this new year of gardening. We can't wait to share tips and advice for 2018. Whether you're new to growing your own food, or a seasoned gardener looking to expand....
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Grow a pizza garden
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
It’s always a good idea to grow what you eat. So why not start a garden for one of the most popular menu items – pizza! It’s a great edible garden theme for new gardeners looking for....
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‘Grow Anywhere Tour’ – All Systems Go for Good Food
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
The forecast called for snow, but the Burpee truck rolled on! We didn’t want to disappoint the students and community of Farnsworth Aerospace K-8 Magnet School in St. Paul Minnesota, our winning....
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Something’s eating the peppers
Erin Etheridge Burpee Home Gardens Guest Blogger
So it’s officially been a month, and the container garden is off to a fantastic start. I haven’t gone nuts and overwatered, for one thing, even though this scorching early-June heat tempts....
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How much to grow?
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
If your shopping list is complete and you’ve chosen which varieties you’d like to grow in your garden, the next step is determining how many of each plant you’ll need to meet your harvest....
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Tomato worm invasion
Megan Mahaffey Guest Blogger 2010
How, in all my life, had I never seen a tomato worm?
You remember me mentioning that I thought, perhaps, I had a deer nibbling on the tender leaves of my plants?
I was wrong. Seriously wrong.
To....
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Simple themes for tasty harvests
Jessie Atchison Burpee Home Gardens Brand Manager, 2008-2010
The first rule of veggie gardening is to plant things you and your family enjoy eating. (It sounds simple, but a lot of people really do get hung up on what on earth they should plant.) One way to a....
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