Lauren McEwen
On August 24th and 25th Burpee opened their Doylestown, PA gardens to the public for a $5.00 admission fee. Daily events included guided garden tours, planting and harvesting demonstrations, tomato tastings, plant sale and a lecture on native blueberries by Dr. Mark Ehlenfeldt, USDA blueberry breeder and expert.
On August 24th and 25th Burpee opened their Doylestown, PA gardens to the public for a $5.00 admission fee. Daily events included guided garden tours, planting and harvesting demonstrations, tomato tastings, plant sale and a lecture on native blueberries by Dr. Mark Ehlenfeldt, USDA blueberry breeder and expert.
I
had never been to the farm before and decided to check it out. I did a
self-guided tour of the grounds and took lots of photos to share with
you. While there, I also purchased Yukon Gold potatoes and garlic to
plant in my vegetable garden. Follow up blog posts to come when it's time to put
them in the ground.
Some views of the Burpee perennial shade garden.
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| A quite nook to rest my feet |
There are a number of trial gardens at Burpee's Fordhook Farm. Visitors are not permitted inside the fences, where new plant varieties and techniques are being tested.
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| View of a Fordhook Farm Trial Garden |
A splash of color.
Famous Burpee Introductions
- 1894 - Iceberg
Lettuce. The first lettuce that can be transported to market without
wilting.
- 1902 - First Yellow Sweet Corn – Golden
Bantam (yes, all sweet corn was originally white, Burpee bred a yellow sweet corn so it
would seem like it was already buttered!)
- 1948 - Burpee
Big Boy Tomato - a breakthrough in taste and yield that is still a best seller
today.
- 1976 - Burpee introduces the first white
Marigold.
- 1998 - Burpee’s new ‘4th
of July’is the world’s first full-size tomato to ripen by Independence Day.
- 1999 - First ever RED sweet corn ‘Ruby
Queen’ is introduced.
- 2009 – The world’s first seedless tomato ‘Sweet Seedless Hybrid’is introduced.
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