Garden Vegetable Seeds for Growing in Containers

IP085 Pick A Bushel Hybrid

Plant your own pickle factories.
Be prepared to be pick lots of cukes from these compact plants. The medium green, white-spined fruits are sweet, firm and crisp, ready to pick only 50 days from sowing at 3 inch gherkin size for great pickles or left to grow to 6 inch length for slicing fresh in salads.
The semi-bush vines grow only 24 inches long, so they are well-suited for growing in patio containers as well as the garden. Plants have excellent heat tolerance and disease resistances to CMV, Scab and MMV. 50 days.

BM61 Spacemaster 80 Cucumber

60 days. These dwarf plants produce heavily and are resistant
to cucumber mosaic virus, scab, and moderately resistant to
downy and powdery mildews. The eight inch fruit are good
flavored and not bitter, even when grown in full sun.

G026 Baby Eggplant

A new mini vegetable. Plants are compact and bear loads of
miniature fruit that can be deep fried whole. One of the new
rages in miniature veggies. Perfect for container raising.
Fruits are very tasty.

W172 Casper Eggplant

White, 2 x 6″, eat fresh in early summer, mild flesh, doesn’t need peeling, compact
plant for patio pot, 68 days.

W174 Round Mauve Eggplant

4″ round, warm lavender, few seeds, great non bitter eating, compact plant for patio
pot, 65 days.

W201 Garland Chrysantheum ( Chrysanthemum coronarium )

Garland Daisies thrive throughout the Mediterranean region, where they originated and have grown for centuries. In addition to being an attractive garden or prairie plant, this daisy has fragrant greens that are often featured in Chinese, Japanese, and Taiwanese cuisine.
This vegetable is very popular in Taiwanese stir-fry and soup cooking. They make a flavorful addition to beef and lamb dishes, as well as producing an excellent tea when brewed. As a medicinal herb, this plant was an ancient Chinese remedy for treating headaches. The poet Chaucer was the first to give this family of flowers the name “day’s eye,” because of their habit of opening in the morning and closing at night.
A common saying of the era stated, “When you can put your foot on seven daisies, summer is come.” In the language of flowers, daisies symbolize innocence, simplicity, and modesty.
This plant has raw edible leaves and flowers. The whole plant has a very distinctive aromatic flavour and is rich in vitamins and minerals, particularly potassium. The open flowers and unopened flower buds (pearls) can be used to make a beneficial herbal tea. Chrysanthemum tea is a beautiful yellow colour with a very pleasant aromatic flavour. Flowers can be used fresh or dried. Grows about 30 inches tall. A hardy annual that self seeds.

IP160 Red Salad Bowl

Maroon-red, deeply cut and finely divided leaves, very attractive in tossed salad.
Red Salad Bowl is a long-standing, slow-to-bolt and early maturing lettuce that grows well all season and can be harvested over period of time. Its maroon-red, deeply cut and finely divided leaves are crisp and delicious and make an eye-catching addition mixed with green lettuce. Some tolerance to late-season mildew. 50 days.

IP158 Parris Island COS

Hardy heirloom strain with sweet flavor and crisp texture.
Named after Parris Island, SC, this heirloom variety bred by the USDA and Clemson University was introduced in 1952. The sweet flavor and crisp texture have earned it a devoted following. Growing to about 10-12″ tall, the large heads have deep green leaves that turn to a creamy yellowish-white at the heart. Highly disease resistant. 68 days.

W192 Sakata’s Sweet Melon

Softball size Asian type, gaining popularity here, smooth golden yellow rind, sweet flesh, good to trellis, 90 days

Hearts of Gold Melon

2784 Sharlyn

2-3 lbs. A very nice melon made available by SOC. Silky gold
flesh is sweet, soft, juicy and aromatic. Highly recommended,
the productive, disease-resistant vine yields oval, 4-6 pound
fruits with a thin green rind that matures to yellow or orange,
with no ribs and a shallow, full net. Direct seed in garden in
rows 4-6 feet apart when danger of frost has passed. Likes to
be planted in clusters with 3-4 plants per group. Deeply
fertile soil produces optimum yield of fruits. Enrich soil with
compost. Harvesting tips. Stem turns brown and separates easily
from the melon when ripe.

2030 Jenny Lind

80 days This fine melon dates back to the 1840’s, was
sold by many of the 1800’s Seed Company’s, it was
named after the Famous Singer, Jenny Lind, “The Swedish
Nightingale”. This wonderful 1-2 lb. turban shaped melon
is very sweet and has light green, delicious flesh.

W121 Minnesota Midget

Small early, 4″ melons with sweet flavorful flesh. Large crops
on compact 3′ vines, good quality, a true midget! A favorite
small melon introduced in 1948.

3418 Wasabissimo Asian Mustard

Delicious, spicy, wasabi-like flavor, grow as sprouts to add extra zest to salads, or a spicy pot herb for cold days.

TST183 Evergreen Bunching

Bunching onion does not form a real bulb. Oriental bunching onion has a green leaf portion and a long blanched white stalk portion. The blanched portion can be from a few inches to 20 inches, depending the varieties. The long-stalk onions are blanched by earthing up during growth. The long-stalk onions are very tender and well flavored, excellent for stir-fry, sukiyaki, tempura and many Japanese dishes. Plants can be harvested for vegetable use at any growing stage. Considered a neutral day variety that grows about anywhere.

Peppers

Notes from Jim: As a rule of thumb, allow about 2 gallons of soil per plant when determining container you will use for most standard size pepper plants, but only about 1-1/4 gallons per plant for the varieties listed below.
I suggest about 12-16″ depth for containers. For reference, a plastic half whiskey barrel usually measures about 17.5″ deep by 26″ in diameter ( this would closely equal a square container measuring 16″x16″x24″ ) and holds just under 25 gallons of soil. So you could grow about 15 pepper plants ( varieties listed below ) in a half whiskey barrel, but I do not like to crowd mine, and would only plant 5-7, and grow different types in the same container that reach different heights.

Use a slow release fertilize like Osmocote 14-14-14 that is found at almost any gardening center, Lowes, Home Depot, Wal-mart, etc.

PEP271 Miniature Red Bell

55 days. This impressive miniature bell really pumps out the
peppers! Expect up to 75 peppers per plant. The deep red 3
lobed fruit are 2 1/2 inches wide by 1 1/4 inches long. Very
sweet, and excellent on veggie platters, in salads, stuffed, or
cored and eaten whole. Peppers ripen from green to red.

PEP272 Miniature Yellow Bell ( Sweet
Bell Pepper )

An amazing little miniature bell pepper producing 70 or more
fruits a plant. The fruits average 2 1/2 inches wide by 1 1/4
inches long. Peppers ripen from green to yellow. Produces in
only 55 days.

PEP273 Miniature Chocolate Bell (
Sweet Bell Pepper )

An amazing little miniature bell pepper producing 70 or more
fruits a plant. The fruits average 2 1/2 inches wide by 1 1/4
inches long. Peppers ripen from green to chocolate brown.
Produces in only 55 days.

PEP349 Cherry Bomb ( Mildly Hot Pepper 2-5,000+ Scoville Units )

F1, early, productive, 2-1/2″ round hot red cherry, pendent fruits, very hot, fine for patio, 84 days. Great pepper for pickling.

PEP007 Super Chili Hybrid ( Chile Type
Hot! Pepper 20000-40000 SU )

One of the most pungent chili peppers available. Very
ornamental, semi-compact, 24″ plant bearing 2-1/2″ elongated
fruits with plenty of chili pepper. Bred for increased yields.
Bring plants in where winter is severe to have a continuous
supply of these peppers all winter. Ripens to green to orange
to red. Ideal for patio, container, and windowsill gardens. 75
days.

Radish

Notes from Jim: Radishes are another vegetable that seem to be made for container, they can grow in shallow containers and do not require a lot of space.
You can grow radishes in almost any type of container that are 8 inches deep.
Stagger sowing times in containers and enjoy radishes throughout the year.

Use a slow release fertilize like Osmocote 14-14-14 that is found at almost any gardening center, Lowes, Home Depot, Wal-mart, etc.

FB132 Easter Egg Radish

A mixture of red, purple and
white radishes often harvested when marble size for salads,
that are crisp and mild, even when mature. Adds color and zest
to salads.

W186 Plum Purple Radish

Unique deep purple round roots. Firm white flesh is sweet and mild all season long and never pithy. Hardy and adaptable. Exceptional variety for the novelty market and also for the home gardener. 25-30 days.

Squash/Zucchini

Notes from Jim: As a rule of thumb, allow about 2 gallons of soil per plant when determining container you will use for most standard size pepper plants, but only about 1-1/2 gallons per plant for the varieties listed below.
I suggest about 12-16″ depth for containers. For reference, a plastic half whiskey barrel usually measures about 17.5″ deep by 26″ in diameter ( this would closely equal a square container measuring 16″x16″x24″ ) and holds just under 25 gallons of soil. So you could grow about 15 squash plants ( varieties listed below ) in a half whiskey barrel, but because they love to spread so much, I would recommend only planting 5 or 6.

Use a slow release fertilize like Osmocote 14-14-14 that is found at almost any gardening center, Lowes, Home Depot, Wal-mart, etc.

FB136 Cocozelle Zucchini Bush

Compact Italian, 12″ long cylinder, dark green with light green stripes, flesh green-white,
tender, slice, fry, steam, fine for patio, 45 days.

Swiss Chard

Notes from Jim: Swiss Chard is a perennial plant, so keep this in mind when choosing a container and spot for growing.
I suggest about 12-16″ depth for containers. Fill with good potting mix and space seeds about 6″ apart each way, depending on the size container you use, I use a 16 inch by 24″ flower box that is about 18″ deep.
Use a slow release fertilize like Osmocote 14-14-14 that is found at almost any gardening center, Lowes, Home Depot, Wal-mart, etc.

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Tomato

Notes from Jim: As a rule of thumb, allow about 5 gallons of soil per plant when determining container you will use for most standard size tomato plants, but only about 3 gallons per plant for the varieties listed below.
I suggest about 18″ depth for containers. For reference, a plastic half whiskey barrel usually measures about 17.5″ deep by 26″ in diameter ( this would closely equal a square container measuring 16″x16″x24″ ) and holds just under 25 gallons of soil. So you could grow about 8 pepper plants ( varieties listed below ) in a half whiskey barrel, but would probably be better served giving them room to spread and only planting 5-6.

Use a slow release fertilize like Osmocote 14-14-14 that is found at almost any gardening center, Lowes, Home Depot, Wal-mart, etc.

RTP600 Bush Early Girl Hybrid

Extremely early patio type plant with 4″ meaty, sweet tasting
fruits. 54 days. Determinate.

RTP455 Bush Goliath

Excellent producer of large 3-4 inch fruits on compact 3-4 ft. plants. Developed for patios, with a high sugar content. Determinate, 68 days.

D9897 Tiny Sugar Lumps Tomato

A sprawling tomato plant best suited for hanging baskets and
containers. Will bear hundreds of sweet, delicious pea-size
tomatoes at a time. Fruits almost year round inside.

RTP309 Tiny Tim

Bush type, 18″ tall producing loads of excellent salad type
tomatoes. Excellent for containers.

RTP203 Patio Hybrid

Compact and upright, determinate plants require only 2”
stakes and produce their fruits from the bottom of the plant.
Bushy, 25” tall dwarf plants are compact and grow well in
containers. Vigorous and productive with 4 oz. deep oblate,
medium-sized fruit. Very easy to grow and Tolerant to Fusarium
Wilt. 70 days.

Watermelon

TCB090 Sugar Baby

80 days. The standard of the icebox melons, Sugar Baby has been a staple at picnics for years. Vines grow to 6 feet and set 4-6 melons roughly 10 inches across. Has that unmistakable crisp, mouthwatering, sweet rich flavor. Terrific for home gardens.

Jim’s Plant Growth Stimulator

Please note that this is not a plant food or fertilize, this is a combination of natural ingredients intended to improve plant growth. Many greenhouse growers and commercial farms use a combination of these ingredients in their growing process. We have been using this formula in our gardens, fields and greenhouses since 1992, and we use it on everything we grow. We would not make this available to our customers if we did not firmly believe that it does enhance the growth and health of plants that it is applied to.
To see the results for yourself, we advise using it on some plants and not on others and see the difference.

Note: We only ship this product to addresses inside the USA.

The following ingredients are used in making Jim’s Plant Growth Stimulator:

Gibberellic Acid

Gibberellic Acid is a member of a type of plant hormone called Gibberellins, which regulate the growth rate of plants. It was first discovered in Japan, in 1935 as a result of the study of a condition
common in rice plants called “foolish seedling” disease, which caused the plants to grow much taller than normal. The effects of gibberellins weren’t widely understood until years later.
Gibberellic Acid is EPA approved, and is commercially used to grow most fruits and vegetables we eat.

B1 Vitamins and Plant Hormones

We add a blend of plant vitamins and hormones to stimulate plant growth and allow the plant to absorb food
from the soil quicker and also assimilate micronutrients that they may not normally be able to absorb due to various soil conditions.

Micronutrients

All plants benefit from micronutrients, so we’ve added a humic acid base with Boron (B), Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Molybdenum (Mo), Sulfur (S) and Zinc (Zn) in our solution.

Other ingredients

We also add a natural detergent additive that causes the sprayed on solution to “stick” to the plant leaves until the solution is absorbed by the plant, this detergent also discourages insects from feeding on the leaves for a short time after the solution is applied.

Each 8 ounce bottle of JPG01 Plant Growth Stimulator makes 16 gallons spray-on solution, you can also use a drench and pour it around the base of the plant if you prefer. The bottle comes with a 1/2 ounce measuring spoon, simply mix a half ounce of plant growth stimulator with a gallon of water and spray onto the plants, or drench the soil around the plant. :

Spray plants weekly, best to apply in early morning/late evening. Start spraying when plants are young. Can be sprayed onto vegetable plants upto harvest. Mix 1/2 ounce stimulator with one gallon of water.

JPG01 Plant Growth Stimulator