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• Featured Review: Pepper, Sweet Tangerine Dream

  Pepper, Sweet Tangerine Dream Average Customer Rating 4.3 out of 5 Yes, it's a gorgeous little bush studded all over with shiny red-orange rockets - too pretty to hide away among rows of vegetables. But it's very tasty too, with a hint of heat. The 3" fruit are sweet and delicious, either pickled or on salad platters. Height 18". Harvest about 70 days after plants are set out in the garden. Grows best in full sun. Read all reviews at Burpee Featured Review 5 of 5 Most prolific pepper and a real conversation piece September 06, 2011By vommarlowe from Midwest "These are great little plants. I planted mine in containers with good soil, a bit of Soil Moist, and my usual pepper fertilizer. These grew slowly but steadily into pretty, green free-standing plants (no staking needed). When they fruited, practically every flower turned into a pepper! I have row after row of green peppers, each about the size of a jalepeno. If you leave them on the plant long enough, they turn a lovely orange-red color. I have been very pleased with the taste, which is like a..." more Read all reviews at Burpee - 18 hours ago

• Featured Review: Zinnia, Citrus Mix

  Zinnia, Citrus Mix Average Customer Rating 5 out of 5 An extravagant tricolor bouquet of giant (4-5") double flowered yellow, orange and white zinnias. Breathtaking when gathered into a vase. Read all reviews at Burpee Featured Review 5 of 5 Spectacular Finch Magnet July 31, 2010By qqmkxp938 from Maryland "These zinnias are the most spectacularly bright and happy flowers my finches and butterflies have ever seen. I planted them with some "Purple Prince" zinnias and some Russian Sage. I now have at least four yellow finches and multiple yellow swallowtail butterflies spending the day. The make me happy every time I look at them." Read all reviews at Burpee - 18 hours ago

• Featured Review: Basil, Sweet

  Basil, Sweet Average Customer Rating 4.8 out of 5 Classic herb, used in tomato sauce, pesto and salads. Annual. Start early indoors or outdoors after danger of frost. Read all reviews at Burpee Featured Review 5 of 5 Best Yeild Ever! August 16, 2007By wilbar from Clayton "Normally I plant seedlings. This year I tried starting from seed and could not be happier with the results. I used two different methods.For the first , I bought two big pots and threw a handfull of seeds into each one.I had many sprouts but they were overcrowded.They grew so big that I used them ornamentally. As for the second,I germinated single seeds.Then I planted them two feet apart in the garden. The single plants each grew to be bigger than the entire pots of Basil,far exceeding my expectations. I..." more Read all reviews at Burpee - 18 hours ago

• Featured Review: Tomato Seed Starting Formula

  Tomato Seed Starting Formula Average Customer Rating 5 out of 5 This seed-starting formula is specially created to answer the special requirements of tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. Read all reviews at Burpee Featured Review 5 of 5 Skeptic Converted June 25, 2007By Anonymous from Phoenix, AZ "I bought this without a huge expectation and I decided to test it. I started four sets of seeds at the same time. One in the Tomato formula, one in a peat pod, one in a commercial garden soil and one in dampened paper towels. Five day laters, every one of the four seeds in the starter formula has germinated and the seedlings are now 1 inch tall. One peat pod seed is just starting to show, two seeds are just beginning to grow in the paper towel and nothing is yet seen in the commercial soil. I'm..." more Read all reviews at Burpee - 18 hours ago