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Gardeners who plant large gardens or want to share seeds with family or friends may need the “Community Garden Kit”.
This kit contains
- (27) varieties
- over 17,000 count
- non-hybrid
- open-pollinating
- non-GMO... high quality seeds!
Though it contains fewer varieties of seeds than our “Complete Garden Kit”, a larger quantity of each variety is included, of from three to eight times the quantity of the (27) seed varieties that are found in the "Complete Garden Kit". The seed count totals over 17,000 seeds and if planted in the recommended row and plant spacing, will plant almost two full acres.
The seeds are labeled and packaged individually in zip-lock poly bags, placed in a single large zip-lock poly bag, and then hermetically sealed in a #10 size can.
Each Community Garden Kit contains the following seeds, variety and approximate count:
Beans (Green): Stringless Green Pod (540 count)
Formerly Burpee Stringless. Brittle pods are 5 to 6 inches long, slightly curved and entirely stringless.
Beans (Yellos): Godcrop (540 count)
Produces small, upright bushy bean plants that are adapted to most areas. Will produce an abundance of five to seven inch long, straight, bright yellow stringless pods.
Cabbage (Green): Copenhagen Market (600 count)
Early, heavy-yielding variety, with 6 to 8 inch solid heads that keep well. Popular for market and shipping.
Cantaloupe: Hales Best Jumbo (150 count)
Large, oval, ribbed cantaloupe with heavy netting and fine textured, bright orange flesh. Drought tolerant.
Carrots: Imperator 58 (1600 count)
Slender, tapered, 8 to 9 inch long roots are fine grained, sweet and tender. Popular supermarket carrot.
Corn (Sweet): Golden Bantam 8 (900 count)
Open pollinated. Seed may be saved after harvest for planting in subsequent years. This hardy variety has 5 to 6 inch ears of good quality for an open pollinated sweet corn.
Cucumber (Pickling): Wisconsin SMR (150 count)
Black spined, blocky, slightly tapered fruits. Very productive.
Cucumber (Slicing): Straight 8 (150 count)
8 inch fruits are dark green with white spines and small seed cavity. Very vigorous.
Honeydew Melon: Green Flesh (125 count)
5½ pound oval shaped fruits with small seed cavities. Flesh is emerald green and sweet. An excellent shipper with hard, creamy white rind.
Lettuce (Head): Iceberg (3,000 count)
Compact medium sized head has tightly packed ice-green leaves and crisp white heart. Likes cool weather.
Lettuce (Romaine): Paris Island Cos (3,000 count)
Large, upright, full-bodied heads with dark-green, slightly savored leaves that are mild and sweet. Plant reaches about 10 inches tall. Midribs are crunchy and juicy. Mosaic tolerant.
Onion (White): White Sweet Spanish (800 count)
Intermediate day type. Large bulbs have a glistening white skin and mild sweet flesh. Modest keeper.
Onion (Yellow): Yellow Sweet Spanish (800 count)
Intermediate day type. Large bulbs sometimes weighing a pound or more. Sweet and mild flavored. Has fair storage characteristics. Moderate Pink Root tolerance.
Peas: Green Arrow (800 count)
Long, slim, 4½ inch pods grow in pairs on strong 28 inch vines. Resistant to Fusarium Wilt and Downy Mildew. Good freezing quality.
Peppers (Bell): California Wonder 300 (160 count)
Large yields of blocky, mostly 4 lobed, thick-walled fruit that is mild and sweet. Resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus.
Peppers (Hot): Jalapeno (160 count)
Dark-green to red, 3 inch peppers taper to a rounded tip. Prolific and continuous harvest.
Pumpkins: Jack-O-Lantern (50 count)
10 pound fruits are thick walled, and smooth skinned, round to slightly oblong. Thick flesh is fine for cooking, but really shines as a carving pumpkin.
Radishes: Champion (1,200 count)
Deep scarlet, globe-shaped root is very firm and stands well without becoming pithy.
Spinach: Bloomsdale Long Standing (500 count)
Heavy, glossy, dark green leaves are heavily savored and crumpled. Slow to bolt.
Squash (Summer): Italian Striped Zucchini (100 count)
Traditional Italian favorite often harvested extra early, but still very good when left to a larger size. Dark green with lighter stripes, excellent flavor.
Squash (Summer): Yellow Crookneck (100 count)
Bumpy, yellow, meaty fruits are 5 to 6 inches long. Slender curved neck. Holds and ships well. Excellent eating quality. Continuous yield.
Squash (Winter): Burgess Buttercup (80 count)
Thick, orange, fiber-free flesh cooks up dry and tastes something like sweet potatoes. Turban shaped, dark green fruits measure 4¼ by 6 inches, with a prominent "button" on blossom end.
Squash (Winter): Pink Banana Jumbo (80 count)
Fruits can get 4 feet long and 1 foot across and weigh 70 pounds. Smooth pink-orange skin with sweet yellow/orange, fine-grained flesh.
Squash (Winter): Vegetable Spaghetti (80 count)
Harvest when 8 to 10 inches long. Spaghetti like pulp can be removed easily with a fork after boiling in shell for about 30 minutes. Also bakes well.
Tomatoes: Roma (600 count)
Vigorous vines. Excellent yields of bright red, medium-small, pear shaped fruits. Popular for cooking, canning, & paste.
Tomatoes: Rutgers (600 count)
High yields of firm, meaty, blood red fruits averaging 6 to 8 oz. An exceptional fine mild flavor. Medium-large determinate vines. A, F, V
Watermelon: Crimson Sweet (150 count)
Striped, nearly round, 15 to 25 pound melon with very sweet, crisp, crimson flesh and small seeds. Hard rind stands up to handling.
Standard shipping of Seed Kits will be via USPS.
The type, variety, and approximate seed count is printed on each kit can label. The germination rate of seeds diminishes over time and storage conditions are extremely important. It is recommended that this can be kept in your refrigerator, or other cool, dark, dry environment. Use it no later than the planting season following its purchase and replace on an annual basis. This practice of “rotating your stock”, will insure freshness and that the kit will be ready in the event it is truly needed. In a sense, this would be like the replacement of the batteries in a stored flashlight so as to be sure to have an available light source in a power outage.
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