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One of the original heirlooms, the Heirloom Brandywine is a super juicy tomato with a tender soft skin. A classic variety with an unbeatable flavor, it produces large fruit.
Growing Instructions:
Start seeds inside about 6-8 weeks before the last frost date. Transplant to a prepared garden bed or container after the danger of frost has passed. Tomatoes get bushy and need support from cages or a trellis.
Seed Information:
- Lifecycle: Annual (vegetable)
- Time to Maturity: About 3 months
- Sun Requirement: Sun
- Spacing: 24" apart
- Depth: 1/4 inch
- 150-160 Seeds Per Packet
- Seeds/Oz: 7500
- Ideal Germination Temperature: 75F
- Sowing Method: Transplant
Uses:
Brandywine tomatoes are perfect for fresh eating, sandwiches, and salads, known for their rich, tangy flavor and large size.
Additional Information:
- Heirloom Year: 1885
- Plant Scientific Name: Solanum lycopersicum
- Packet Size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
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Heirloom jubilee tomatoes (1943) are delicious, bright, and cheery. This lovely fruit is a wonderful addition to any salad or sandwich. Juicy and hearty, it can be used for any meal and features an attractive yellow color.
Growing Instructions:
Start Jubilee tomato seeds inside about 6-8 weeks before the last frost date. Transplant to a prepared garden bed or container after the danger of frost has passed. Tomatoes get bushy and need support from cages or a trellis.
Seed Information:
- Lifecycle: Annual (vegetable)
- Sowing Method: Transplant
- Time to Maturity/Harvest: 2.5 months
- Sun Requirement: Full sun
- Ideal Germination Temperature: 70-80°F
- Spacing: 18"
- Depth: 1/4"
- Height: 4'
- Seeds/Oz: 7,500
- Seeds Per Packet: 100-110 Jubilee tomato seeds
Uses:
Great for making sauces or tomato paste. High in fiber, vitamins C and K, potassium, folate, and lycopene, an antioxidant.
Additional Information:
- Heirloom Year: 1943
- Plant Scientific Name: Solanum lycopersicum
- Packet Size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
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This historic turnip variety is the most popular in the home garden. With its traditional flavor, the Heirloom Purple Top Turnip is great for storage. Enjoy both the roots and the greens of this versatile vegetable.
Growing Instructions:
Plant seeds 1/4 inch deep in a prepared garden bed. Thin to 6" apart. Can be planted throughout the season but prefers cooler fall conditions.
Seed Information:
- Lifecycle: Annual (vegetable)
- Time to Maturity: About 2 months
- Sun Requirement: Sun
- Spacing: 6" apart
- Depth: 1/4 inch
- 835-845 seeds per packet
- Seeds/Oz: 9,500
- Ideal Germination Temperature: 70°F
- Sowing Method: Direct
Uses:
Purple Top Turnips are perfect for roasting, mashing, or using in soups and stews. The greens are also edible and nutritious.
Additional Information:
- Heirloom Year: 1881
- Plant Scientific Name: Brassica rapa subsp. rapa
- Packet Size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
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Turnip greens are nutritious and tasty, even better straight from your garden! This Heirloom Seven Top variety is grown for its wonderful greens.
Growing Instructions:
Starting in early spring, plant heirloom turnip seeds 1/4 inch deep in a prepared garden bed or container. Plant every 2 weeks for a continual harvest throughout the season. If you have a larger space, we also carry these top seven turnip seeds in bulk.
Seed Information:
- Lifecycle: Annual (vegetable)
- Time to Maturity: About 1 1/2 months
- Sun Requirement: Sun
- Spacing: 6" apart
- Depth: 1/4 inch
- 1100-1110 seeds per packet
- Seeds/Oz: 9,500
- Ideal Germination Temperature: 70°F
- Sowing Method: Direct
Uses:
Turnip greens are perfect for cooking in soups, stews, or simply sautéed for a healthy side dish.
Additional Information:
- Heirloom Year: Pre-1880
- Plant Scientific Name: Brassica rapa subsp. rapa
- Packet Size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
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Did you know that zucchini is such a great vegetable that some towns even have festivals to celebrate it? It’s so prolific that many recipes, including brownies, call for it!
Growing Instructions:
After the danger of frost has passed, plant seeds 1 inch deep and 24" apart in hills or rows. Zucchini can also be grown in large containers. Each plant produces a multitude of fruits, making it a very productive choice for your garden.
Seed Information:
- Lifecycle: Annual (vegetable)
- Time to Maturity: About 1 1/2 months
- Sun Requirement: Sun
- Spacing: 24" apart
- Depth: 1 inch
- 15-20 Seeds Per Packet
- Seeds/Oz: 200
- Ideal Germination Temperature: 85°F
- Sowing Method: Direct
Uses:
Zucchini is versatile in the kitchen. It's great for sautéing, grilling, or adding to bread, muffins, and even brownies!
Additional Information:
- Heirloom Year: 1957
- Plant Scientific Name: Cucurbita
- Packet Size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
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Earth Day Promotion Seed Packet Card with Butterfly Art and Pollinator Mix Wildflower Seeds
Give back to nature this Earth Day with this gorgeous mix! It provides nectar and pollen to honey bees, wild bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators. Earth Day is April 22!
Our pollinator mix Earth Day promotion card has a beautiful floral and butterfly design. This packet would be a thoughtful favor for the eco-conscious host!
Send an eco-friendly greeting by using this packet in one of our Seed Packet Greeting Cards!
Grow Good Things with our Pollinator Mix packet has a whimsical watercolor-style floral and butterfly art. This sweet, illustrated, kraft-look packet would be a thoughtful favor for the eco-conscious host!
Use the space provided on the back of the packet to write your own personalized message.
This wildflower mix provides nectar and pollen to honey bees, wild bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators.
This packet will cover approximately 10 square feet of space.
Pollinator Mix Wildflower Planting Directions -
Prepare a bed of loose soil. Sprinkle seeds in prepared area and cover loosely with soil. Keep the area moist until the plants are about 6" tall. It really is that easy!
SEED INFORMATION:
- Lifecycle: annual/perennial mix
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Sun Requirement: Full Sun
- Depth: 0.25"
- Bloom Season: early summer to fall
- Height: varies
- Uses: Bee Feed, Butterfly Feed, Pollinator Garden
- Low Maintenance : yes
- Packet Weight: 400 mg
- Seeds Per Packet: 210-220
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
Varieties Included: Painted Daisy, Rocket 'Imperial Mix' Larkspur, Single Mix China Aster, Dwarf Mixed Cosmos, Lance Leaved Coreopsis, Sulphur 'Bright Lights Mix' Cosmos, Purple Coneflower, Blanketflower, 'Alaska' Shasta Daisy, Sweet William Pinks, Bishop's Flower, Clarkia, Gloriosa Daisy, Mexican Hat, Plains Coreopsis.
Scientific Names: Chrysanthemum carinatum, Mixed Delphinium consolida, Callistephus chinensis, Dwarf Mixed Cosmos bipinnatus, Coreopsis lanceolata, Cosmos sulphureus 'Bright Lights Mix', Echinacea purpurea, Gaillardia aristata, Chrysanthemum maximum 'Alaska', Dianthus barbatus, Ammi majus, Clarkia unguiculata, Rudbeckia hirta gloriosa Ratibida columnifera (Mexican Hat), Coreopsis tinctoria
Here at Bentley Seed, we only fill our seed packets with the freshest crop NON-GMO seed in our 3rd generation family-owned small business in upstate NY! Our packets are hand-picked for you!
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Our most popular Earth Day design is back! These vibrant packets will grow a colorful garden sure to delight the pollinators all around you.
The perfect favor for handing out at Earth Day events, for passing out to students, as a thank-you to clients, customers, co-workers, teachers, students, friends and family. Design features an illustrated planet earth with flowers, bees, and butterflies on ocean blue. Filled with a gorgeous mix of pollinator-nurturing flower seeds, they are easy to plant and easy to grow!
Earth Day is April 22.
Use the space provided on the back of the packet to write your own personalized message, or even place a label sticker with your preprinted logo and contact info on it!
This wildflower mix provides nectar and pollen to honey bees, wild bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators.
This packet will cover approximately 10 square feet of space.
Pollinator Mix Wildflower Planting Directions -
Prepare a bed of loose soil. Sprinkle seeds in prepared area and cover loosely with soil. Keep the area moist until the plants are about 6" tall. It really is that easy!
SEED INFORMATION:
- Lifecycle: annual/perennial mix
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Sun Requirement: Full Sun
- Depth: 0.25"
- Bloom Season: early summer to fall
- Height: varies
- Uses: Bee Feed, Butterfly Feed, Pollinator Garden, Wildflower garden, border garden
- Low Maintenance: yes
- Packet Weight: 400 mg
- Seeds Per Packet: 210-220
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
Varieties Included: Painted Daisy, Rocket 'Imperial Mix' Larkspur, Single Mix China Aster, Dwarf Mixed Cosmos, Lance Leaved Coreopsis, Sulphur 'Bright Lights Mix' Cosmos, Purple Coneflower, Blanketflower, 'Alaska' Shasta Daisy, Sweet William Pinks, Bishop's Flower, Clarkia, Gloriosa Daisy, Mexican Hat, Plains Coreopsis.
Scientific Names: Chrysanthemum carinatum, Mixed Delphinium consolida, Callistephus chinensis, Dwarf Mixed Cosmos bipinnatus, Coreopsis lanceolata, Cosmos sulphureus 'Bright Lights Mix', Echinacea purpurea, Gaillardia aristata, Chrysanthemum maximum 'Alaska', Dianthus barbatus, Ammi majus, Clarkia unguiculata, Rudbeckia hirta gloriosa Ratibida columnifera (Mexican Hat), Coreopsis tinctoria
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Be the change for climate change - grow sunflowers!
You can help make a global climate change start right here at home with these pretty pollinator-supporting packets! Our exclusive mammoth sunflower packets are perfect as Earth Day celebration favors or to use as awareness-creating giveaways for clients, customers, co-workers, teachers, students, friends and family. Packet art features an endangered Monarch butterfly on a sunny bright yellow wild sunflower with a friendly blue sky and says “Be the Change for Climate Change”. Each packet grows glorious sunflowers that are a joy to have in your garden and an important flower offering rich nectar, seeds and shelter to all the bees, butterflies, birds and other pollinators!
A classic American sunflower, the Mammoth Sunflower is an ideal choice as a habitat plant to nurture the native pollinators! Bees and butterflies love the nectar-rich blossoms and birds forage on the seeds in the fall. Bright and beautiful, these indigenous plants are a nostalgic flower for any garden and are a gorgeous add to bouquets all season long.
Earth Day is April 22.
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
Planting Directions -
Press seeds 1/2 inch deep into loose soil. Water. Sit back and enjoy!
SEED INFORMATION:
- Lifecycle: annual
- Time to Maturity: 75-90 days
- Sun Requirement: sun
- Spacing: 24" apart
- Depth: 1/2"
- Bloom Season: mid to late summer
- Height: 9' - 12'
- Uses: Cut flowers, edible seed, great for children
- Low Maintenance : yes
- Packet Weight: 2G
- 20-25 Seeds Per Sunflower Seed Packet
- Sowing Method: Direct
- Seeds per packet: 20-30
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Our vibrant 70s-inspired Earth Day packets are the ideal favors to celebrate Earth Day events or to create awareness with clients, customers, co-workers, teachers, students, friends and family.
Design includes an illustration of the earth, a monarch butterfly, and a peace sign on natural kraft paper style art. Each packet grows big glorious sunflowers that are a joy to have in your garden and an important flower offering rich nectar, seeds and shelter to all the bees, butterflies, birds and other pollinators!
Earth Day is April 22.
Mammoth Sunflower Planting Directions -
Press seeds 1/2 inch deep into loose soil. Water. Sit back and enjoy!
Seed Information:
- Lifecycle: annual
- Time to Maturity: 75-90 days
- Sun Requirement: sun
- Spacing: 24" apart
- Depth: 1/2"
- Bloom Season: mid to late summer
- Height: 9' - 12'
- Uses: Cut flowers, edible seed, great for children and chickens
- Low Maintenance : yes
- Seeds/Oz: 190
- Seeds Per Packet: 20-30
- Sowing Method: Direct
- Scientific Name: Helianthus
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
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Our exclusive orange “Bee the Change” packets are the perfect call to action for any event or as a handout for clients, customers, co-workers, teachers, students, friends and family. The packet design illustrates the earth, honey bees, and yellow flowers.
Honeybees and other bee species, along with big and small pollinators, are suffering globally. You can help by making an impact right in your own backyard.
Each packet grows a wildflower garden that will provide food and habitat to bees, butterflies, birds and other winged creatures.
Use the space provided on the back of the packet to write your own personalized message, or even place a label sticker with your preprinted logo and contact info on it!
This packet will cover approximately 10 square feet of space.
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
SEED INFORMATION:
- Lifecycle: annual/perennial mix
- Sun Requirement: sun
- Packet Weight: 400 mg
- 140-150 Seeds Per Packet
- Bloom Season: summer to fall
- Height: varies
- Uses: cut flowers
- Low Maintenance : yes
Varieties Included: Painted Daisy, Rocket 'Imperial Mix' Larkspur, Single Mix China Aster, Dwarf Mixed Cosmos, Lance Leaved Coreopsis, Sulphur 'Bright Lights Mix' Cosmos, Purple Coneflower, Blanketflower, 'Alaska' Shasta Daisy, Sweet William Pinks, Bishop's Flower, Clarkia, Gloriosa Daisy, Mexican Hat, Plains Coreopsis. Visit bentleyseeds.com for full variety info.
Scientific Names: Chrysanthemum carinatum, Delphinium consolida, Mixed Callistephus chinensis, Cosmos bipinnatus, Dwarf Mixed, Coreopsis lanceolata, Cosmos sulphureus 'Bright Lights Mix', Echinacea purpurea, Gaillardia aristata, Chrysanthemum maximum 'Alaska', Dianthus barbatus, Ammi majus, Clarkia unguiculata, Rudbeckia hirta gloriosa, Ratibida columnifera (Mexican Hat), Coreopsis tinctoria.
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A pretty way to engage on Earth Day, these pink peace sign and flowery packets are ideal favors for your Earth Day gathering or for handing out to students, colleagues, or customers on April 22.
Personalize your message in the lines available on the back. Once planted and blooming, our signature wildflower mix attracts, supports, and nourishes essential pollinators while creating a lovely garden for your yard. Earth Day Peace and Flowers - Wildflower Mix Seed Packets.
This wildflower mix provides nectar and pollen to honey bees, wild bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators.
Earth Day is April 22.
This packet will cover approximately 10 square feet of space.
Pollinator Mix Wildflower Planting Directions -
Prepare a bed of loose soil. Sprinkle seeds in prepared area and cover loosely with soil. Keep the area moist until the plants are about 6" tall. It really is that easy!
SEED INFORMATION:
- Lifecycle: annual/perennial mix
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Sun Requirement: Full Sun
- Depth: 0.25"
- Bloom Season: early summer to fall
- Height: varies
- Uses: Bee Feed, Butterfly Feed, Pollinator Garden
- Low Maintenance: yes
- Packet Weight: 400 mg
- Seeds Per Packet: 210-220
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
Varieties Included: Painted Daisy, Rocket 'Imperial Mix' Larkspur, Single Mix China Aster, Dwarf Mixed Cosmos, Lance Leaved Coreopsis, Sulphur 'Bright Lights Mix' Cosmos, Purple Coneflower, Blanketflower, 'Alaska' Shasta Daisy, Sweet William Pinks, Bishop's Flower, Clarkia, Gloriosa Daisy, Mexican Hat, Plains Coreopsis.
Scientific Names: Chrysanthemum carinatum, Mixed Delphinium consolida, Callistephus chinensis, Dwarf Mixed Cosmos bipinnatus, Coreopsis lanceolata, Cosmos sulphureus 'Bright Lights Mix', Echinacea purpurea, Gaillardia aristata, Chrysanthemum maximum 'Alaska', Dianthus barbatus, Ammi majus, Clarkia unguiculata, Rudbeckia hirta gloriosa Ratibida columnifera (Mexican Hat), Coreopsis tinctoria
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Celebrate Earth Day! Our colorful Psychedelic Daisy Flower Power packet design makes people smile.
Each envelope contains perennial Shasta daisy seeds. Stunning Shasta daisies are a longtime favorite among gardeners. Their bright, beautiful, long-blooming flowers stand out in the garden and attract important pollinators such as bees and butterflies—but are less interesting to animal pests such as deer and rabbits! Psychedelic Make Everyday Earth Day Swirl - Shasta Daisy Seed Packets.
Use the space provided on the back of the packet to write your own personalized message, or even place a label sticker with your preprinted logo and contact info on it!
Earth Day is April 22.
Packet size: 4 ½" x 3 ¼"
Shasta Daisy Planting Instructions -
Start seeds inside about 6-8 weeks before last frost date. Transplant 18" apart in prepared garden bed after danger of frost has passed.
SEED INFORMATION:
- Lifecycle: perennial
- Sun Requirement: sun
- Spacing: 18" apart
- Depth: 1/8 inch
- Bloom Season: summer to fall
- Height: 30-36"
- Uses: cut flowers, garden beds, borders, attracts butterflies
- Low Maintenance : yes
- Seeds/Oz: 28000
- Seeds per packet: 75-85
- Sowing Method: Direct Sow
- Scientific Name: Chrysanthemum maximum
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Your mom will really love this sunflower packet!
This lovely design with illustrated sunflowers and butterflies contains our All Sorts Sunflower Seed Mix. Sow some sunflowers with the family to experience a gift that mom will appreciate and enjoy all summer long! Can make a great gift for mom Mother's Day or any day!
All sorts sunflower mix- Help the pollinators and make your garden a beautiful scene of color! This mix can include Sungold Tall, Autumn Beauty, Lemon Queen, Sungold Dwarf, Dwarf Sunspot, Velvet Queen, Large Grey Stripe, Chocolate Cherry, Black Oil Sunflower, and Maximilian Sunflowers.
Planting Directions -
Press seeds 1/2 inch deep into loose soil. Water. Sit back and enjoy!
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
SEED INFORMATION:
- Lifecycle: annual
- Sun Requirement: sun
- Spacing: 24" apart
- Depth: 1/2"
- Bloom Season: mid to late summer
- Height: 2' - 10'
- Uses: Cut flowers
- Low Maintenance : yes
- Packet Weight: 1 gram
- 20-25 Seeds Per Sunflower Seed Packet
- Sowing Method: Direct
- Seeds per packet: 20-30
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Happy Mother's Day Vintage - Bird & Butterfly Wildflower Mix Seed Packets
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Happy Mother's Day Vintage - Bird & Butterfly Wildflower Mix Seed Packets
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This Mother's Day seed packet is a customer favorite. Its design recalls vintage Mother's Day images with a classic botanical print and elegantly flourished elements.
This year, give your mom the Bird & Butterfly Attracting Seed Mix so that she can appreciate and enjoy it all summer long!
Planting Directions -
Prepare a bed of loose soil. Sprinkle seeds in prepared area and cover loosely with soil. Keep the area moist until the plants are about 6" tall. It really is that easy!
This packet will cover approximately 10 square feet of space.
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
Seed Information:
- Lifecycle: annual/perennial mix
- Sun Requirement: sun
- Bloom Season: summer to fall
- Height: varies
- Uses: Bird attractant, Bee attractant, Butterfly attractant, Pollinator
- Packet Weight: 400 mg
- Seeds Per Packet: 210-220
- Region: Midwest, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest, Texas/Oklahoma, Canada, Western
Mother's Day Seed Packet Mix Breakdown
Lance Leaved Coreopsis, Indian Blanket, Cosmos, Cornflower, Tree Mallow, Purple Coneflower, Globe Gilia, Shasta Daisy, Annual Phlox, Catchfly, Sweet Alyssum, Foxglove.
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A colorful packet from our Mother's Day Collection, your mom will really love this packet!
The is a lovely design bursting with oranges, reds and yellows! These crackerjack marigolds can be sowed on Mother's Day! This year give your mom a gift she'll appreciate and enjoy all summer long!
A garden essential for years! Enjoy the mix of golds, yellows and orange with these flowers. Great for containers!
Use the space provided on the back of the packet to write your own personalized message, or even place a label sticker with your preprinted logo and contact info on it!
In prepared garden bed or container plants seeds 1/4 inch deep. Thin seedlings 12" apart.
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
SEED INFORMATION:
- Lifecycle: annual
- Time to Maturity: Seeds will sprout in 15-20 days, blooming in about 8 weeks.
- Sun Requirement: sun
- Spacing: 12"
- Depth: 1/4 inch
- 70-75 Seeds Per Packet
- Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
- Height: 36"
- Uses: cut flowers, containers, garden beds
- Low Maintenance : yes
- Seeds/Oz: 6000
- Sowing Method: Direct Sow
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A pretty Aster Flower packet from our Mother's Day Collection, your mom will love this gift!
This cool tone Mother's Day watercolor packet features painted asters.
Sow these Aster Crego mix seeds with mom to see them bloom! This year give your mom a gift she'll appreciate and enjoy all summer long.
Use the space provided on the back of the packet to write your own personalized message!
A garden classic! This colorful mix of shaggy, bright blooms will bring delight to your home! Late season aster flower colors!
Can be started inside 6 weeks before last frost. Transplant outside after all frost has passed. Can also be planted directly in prepared flower bed or container. Keep watered until plants begin to emerge.
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
ASTER CREGO MIX SEED INFORMATION:
- Lifecycle: annual
- Time to Maturity: 90-120 days
- Sun Requirement: sun
- Depth: surface
- 55-60 Seeds Per Packet
- Bloom Season: summer
- Height: 24"
- Uses: containers, garden beds, borders, cut flowers
- Low Maintenance : yes
- Seeds/Oz: 12000
- Sowing Method: Transplant or direct sow
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This sweet packet from our Mother's Day Collection features a clutch of purple-colored aster flowers that is sure to charm your mom.
This is a thoughtful packet to give with any mom in mind. The packet shows an "If I could pick a Mom, I would always pick you." quote. Sow these seeds on Mother's Day and give your mom a gift she'll appreciate and enjoy all summer long. She can pick these special flowers all season!
Use the space provided on the back of the packet to write your own personalized message.
A garden classic! This colorful mix of shaggy, bright blooms will bring delight to your home! Late season aster flower colors!
Can be started inside 6 weeks before last frost. Transplant outside after all frost has passed. Can also be planted directly in prepared flower bed or container. Keep watered until plants begin to emerge.
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
ASTER CREGO MIX SEED INFORMATION:
- Lifecycle: annual
- Time to Maturity: 90-120 days
- Sun Requirement: sun
- Depth: surface
- 55-60 Seeds Per Packet
- Bloom Season: summer
- Height: 24"
- Uses: containers, garden beds, borders, cut flowers
- Low Maintenance : yes
- Seeds/Oz: 12000
- Sowing Method: Transplant or direct sow
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A pretty light purple colored Aster Flower on a gold colored packet from our Mother's Day Collection, your mom will be charmed by this packet!
This pencil drawn flower is a thoughtful packet to give with any Mom in mind. These Crego Aster Flowers can be sowed on Mother's Day! This year give your mom a gift she'll appreciate and enjoy all summer long!
Can also be used as a remembrance packet.
Packet size: 3 ¼" x 4 ½"
A garden classic! This colorful mix of shaggy, bright blooms will bring delight to your home! Late season aster flower colors!
Can be started inside 6 weeks before last frost. Transplant outside after all frost has passed. Can also be planted directly in prepared flower bed or container. Keep watered until plants begin to emerge.
ASTER CREGO MIX SEED INFORMATION:
- Lifecycle: annual
- Time to Maturity: 90-120 days
- Sun Requirement: sun
- Depth: surface
- 55-60 Seeds Per Packet
- Bloom Season: summer
- Height: 24"
- Uses: containers, garden beds, borders, cut flowers
- Low Maintenance : yes
- Seeds/Oz: 12000
- Sowing Method: Transplant or direct sow
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Peppers, while technically classified as fruits, are commonly used as vegetables in culinary dishes all around the world. With a wide variety of peppers available, such as bell peppers, jalapeños, and poblano peppers, there's something to suit every taste, from mild and sweet to fiery hot. Growing your own peppers can be a rewarding experience, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the process of growing peppers from seeds, planting, and caring for them, as well as how to use and store your delicious harvest.
Seed Plantation Choose a pepper variety that is suitable for your climate and geographical location. Start the planting process indoors about 8 to 12 weeks before the last expected frost date.
Container Size Selection If you're opting for container gardening, make sure the container size matches the pepper variety you've chosen. Typically, containers with a capacity of 3 to 5 gallons work well for most pepper plants.
Indoor Lighting Provide ample indoor lighting to support the growth of your pepper plants. You can use LED lights or place the containers near a window that receives plenty of sunlight.
Fertilization Fertilization is crucial for a thriving garden. While some soil mixes come pre-fortified with nutrients, adding organic, water-soluble fertilizers can significantly boost your pepper plants' growth.
Outdoor Transition As the weather warms up, it's time to move your pepper plants outdoors. Peppers thrive in temperatures between 70- and 85-degrees Fahrenheit, with moderate humidity (40% to 50%). If the temperature consistently stays above 55 degrees, you can leave your plants outside.
Regular Watering Once your pepper plants are outside, make sure to water them regularly. Keep an eye on pest control and provide nutrients as needed to ensure healthy growth and a bountiful harvest.
Harvesting When it's time to harvest your peppers, use a sharp knife or pruners. Avoid pulling the peppers off the plant, as this can cause damage to the branches and increase the risk of disease. Leave some of the stem attached to the pepper when cutting it. Harvesting some peppers while they're green and allowing others to mature on the vine will give you a mix of flavors, heat, and nutrition.
How to Use Your Peppers Now that gardening season is over, it's time to put your hard work to good use. In the winter, a great way to use your peppers is by making roasted red pepper soup, stuffed peppers, salsa, and sauces. If you're not ready to create a recipe using your peppers just yet, you can freeze them for later use.
By following this comprehensive guide, you'll be well on your way to growing and harvesting your own peppers. Not only will you enjoy the satisfaction of growing your own food, but you'll also have a variety of delicious peppers to incorporate into your favorite recipes. Happy gardening!