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Chelsea Prize
EXCLUSIVE - Our cucumber lovers’ reward, 12 to 15 inch Chelsea Prize is the same long, elegantly slender English cucumber found at a premium price in upscale markets. These thin skinned, bitter-free cucumbers are always easy to digest with absolutely...Lemon Cucumbers
An American favorite for over a hundred years, lemon cucumbers effortlessly produce loads of pastel yellow fruit just the color, size and shape of pale lemons. They have a mild, sweet flavor, crisp texture and non-bitter, thin skins. Cool and...Bush Slicer
EXCLUSIVE - Bush Slicer offers juicy slicing cucumbers in record time on dwarf bushes, perfect for small space or container gardens. The straight, 6 to 8 inch-long fruits have smooth, tender skin with small seed cavities and sweet, crisp flesh....Endeavor
EXCLUSIVE - This early bearing pickling or “Kirby” cucumber is a kitchen garden dynamo that produces an extended harvest of dark green, crispy, curved fruits with the traditional knobby “pickle” skin. Hybrid Endeavor is great tasting and high yielding. Vines...Green Fingers
EXCLUSIVE - Appetizing little Green Fingers are cute mini cucumbers that are smooth, thin-skinned, crispy, and ready to pick when just 3 to 5 inches long. The vigorous, powdery mildew tolerant vines are self-pollinating, early-bearing, and set fruits reliably even...Garden Oasis
Garden Oasis is a deluxe Beit-Alpha style hybrid, renowned for quality throughout the Mediterranean basin but not often offered commercially here because its delicate flesh doesn’t permit easy shipping. The medium green fruits are smooth and glossy, about 5 to...Straight Eight
Classic American heirloom whose vigorous leafy vines bear good crops of juicy slicing cucumbers with a crunchy texture and mild, sweet flavor.Tasty Treat Slicer
Thin-skinned with crisp, mild, juicy flesh, these burpless cucumbers never need peeling. Long, perfectly straight fruits on vigorous vines that produce right until frost.Tasty Green
Crunchy, juicy and thin-skinned, long "burpless" Tasty Green Japanese cucumbers combine vigor and productivity with fine sweet flavor and especially refreshing crispy texture. The vigorous vines bear early, yielding abundant slender 10 to 12 inch fruits that never need peeling....Suyo Long
Asian heirloom cucumber producing lots of long, slender and ribbed, burpless deep green cukes with a fine delicate flavor and crispy texture that cucumber lovers will treasure.Patty’s Marketmore
Our own selection of this classic high yielding heirloom that produces long, dark green fruits with crunchy texture and mild sweet flavor. Weather tolerant and resistant to viruses and disease.Sweet Armenian
Distinctive Armenian heirloom cucumbers are creamy, pale-green with long, ridged fruits that have a wonderfully crisp, juicy texture. These traditional home garden favorites are also called “Yard-long Cucumbers.” Bitter-free and crunchy with very thin skins, they have few seeds and...French Cornichon
EXCLUSIVE – Cornichons are tiny, European style “mini” pickles. Traditionally they are made into the tiny, tangy pickles often served with cocktails and pâtés. Our imported French Cornichons are both early and vigorous with vines that produce high yields of...Blue Borage
(Borago officinalis)One of the easiest flowering herbs to grow, 2 to 3 foot tall borage has clusters of sky-blue little starry flowers and silvery-green leaves that add contrast to other garden plants. Harvest these dainty "bluest of blue" flowers with...Trombetta di Albenga
This wonderful Italian heirloom summer squash is a vigorous climbing vine, producing many 12 to 15 inch, lime-green fruits with a curvaceous trumpet shape and a delicate mild taste with a hint of nutty artichoke flavor. Trombetta’s flesh is seedless...ProtekNet Insect Barrier Netting
A Real Breakthrough That Eliminates Using Pesticides! Keep out harmful pests that damage leaves, lay destructive larvae or transmit diseases with this highly effective new barrier netting. Made in Canada of tough, finely knitted synthetic mesh, it totally prevents pest...Bug Buster-O
All-Purpose Pesticide for Rapid, Effective Control of over 100 Listed Insects When you need a fast way to quickly kill insect pests, this all purpose, OMRI registered wide spectrum botanical pesticide eliminates 100 different targeted pests on contact. It is...Recipes From A Kitchen Garden
There’s nothing quite like the taste of your own home grown produce from the garden, even if your bounty comes fresh from the store or local farmers market. Renee's original collection of close to 300 recipes, organized alphabetically by vegetable...Recipe archive
A Sampling of Recipes from Renee's Cookbooks: The Renee's Garden Cookbook, Recipes from a Kitchen Garden, and More Recipes from a Kitchen Garden.To purchase cookbooks, click here. "Easy to prepare, colorful and delicious recipes for everyday cooking that feature fresh...Vertical vegetables and flowers
Growing plants on vertical supports lets you produce more in less space, helps save your back when working or harvesting, makes a handsome screen or windbreak and provides better air circulation. Plus veggies like cucumbers grow straighter and more blemish...Keep on planting!
Warm mid to late June weather will result in fast germination and growth when you make another sowing of favorites like bush and pole beans, corn, cucumbers, summer squash and zucchini, all of which will come to maturity happily in...Number of seeds in packets/weight/heirloom, hybrid or open pollinated
We carry both open pollinated seeds (you can save your own seeds from the best specimens and sow them again) and hybrids (you need to buy new seeds each year as the seeds are hand-crossed from different parents to get...Favorite seeds to direct sow in the garden
Once your nighttime temperatures are consistently above 50°F (10°C) and daytime weather is warm and settled, there is a wide range of favorite vegetables, flowers and herbs that do best when sown directly into well-prepared garden soil in full sun....When to plant renee's garden seeds
LEFT COLUMN CONTENT BELOW HERE Early Spring Plant directly into garden beds. Follow packet directions to plant:VegetablesBeetsBroccoliBroccoli RaabCarrotsChardFennel, BulbingGreensKaleLeeksLettuceMacheScallionsPak ChoiPeasRadishesSalad GreensStir Fry GreensSpinachHerbsArugulaBorageChamomileChervilChivesCilantroDillGarlic ChivesParsleyWatercressFlowersAgrostemmaAlyssumBells of IrelandBishop's LaceCalendulaClarkiaCornflowersCerintheDelphiniumForget-Me-NotsLarkspurNigellaPoppiesStockSweet Peas Early Summer Plant directly into garden beds once nights are settled and...Newsletter archive
Read Renee's monthly E-newsletters from the past. -----TOP CONTENT ABOVE HERE----- LEFT COLUMN CONTENT BELOW HERE 2023 Newsletters 1-23 - New Introductions 15% Off1-23 - Donations That Make A Difference 3-23 - The Loveliest Lavenders5-23 - Seeds To Sow Now5-23...Renee’s garden cucumber types
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Planting in mayAt long last, spring weather is securely in place. The soil has drained and warmed and trees are stretching and quickly greening up. Many of us really get the gardening bug at this time of year but think that May...Renee's garden equivalents to shepherd's garden seeds varieties"Since I chose all the varieties for the old Shepherd Garden Seeds, I have put together this comparison list so my former customers from Shepherds can find favorites from the old catalog, or enjoy similar varieties with improved traits I've...My favorite herbsHaving lots of fresh herbs is a source of continuing delight for me every season. Most culinary herbs are both easy and reliable to grow. Using them in abundance for everyday cooking is a delicious luxury every gardening cook will...Unbeatable beetsBeets from your own garden taste terrific. Forget any old memories of rubbery, syrupy-sauced, canned beets that lurk in your tastebuds. Freshly pulled beets are truly beautiful and delicious. Their flavor is sweet, rich, hearty and earthy, and beet varieties...June & july are still prime planting seasonGardening is an ongoing process, and, while timing is important, don't be overwhelmed by a sense of being too late to plant by some arbitrary date. All too often, I hear gardeners use a day of a particular month as... Organic garden management – part 2By Lindsay Del Carlo, Trial Garden Manager IntroductionMany of our newer gardening customers want to garden organically, so I've asked our Trial Garden manager Lindsay Del Carlo to write the next few blog posts to share our own... When to plant in texasTexas Gardening Regions
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