Burpee Seeds has a long history in the American mail-order seed business. The Burpees date to the late 1800s as a prominent Philadelphia family. W. Atlee Burpee was born in 1858 and was expected to ...

Slices of a pale,firm and nearly tasteless tomato were cut and offered to a crowd gathered on the porch of Fordhook Farm near Doylestown by George Ball Jr., president and CEO of the W. Atlee Burpee Co ...

WARMINSTER, Pennsylvania -- If you've ever pulled a Burpee carrot out of the ground, munched on a salad of Burpee iceberg lettuce or sniffed a bouquet of Burpee zinnas, it's because those plants ...

Many heirloom tomato enthusiasts swear that `Brandywine’ is the best-tasting of the old open-pollinated tomato varieties. But it does have a tendency to produce unpredictably and to bear misshapen and ...

WARMINSTER, Pa., Jan. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Burpee Gardening is making gardening more bountiful and more beautiful than ever with the unveiling of an exciting line-up of new varieties for 2024.

Beautiful -- Large full-color packet of Beefsteak Tomato seed; Heirloom variety with a wide shape that can grow to 6” in diameter. Wonderful meaty slicing tomato that may hang over the sides of your ...

What’s going to be in your garden this summer? Burpee knows. According to the giant seed catalog’s 2015 retail seed forecast, California’s many backyard fruit and vegetable farmers dig tomatoes most ...

Winter is when dreams of summer’s bumper crops dance through vegetable gardeners’ heads. But it’s hard to imagine that even the most ambitious backyard farmer ever dreamed of something like Burpee’s ...

Although the ground was three feet under a mound of white snow, George Ball Jr’s mind was still in the dirt. Explained the president of the Warminster, Bucks County-based W. Atlee Burpee Seed Co., ...

WARMINSTER, Pa. — The drawback to being a household name is that people tend to take you for granted. Even when you’re W. Atlee Burpee & Co., the company that was first to sell seed through the mail ...