Burpee Presents 2012 New Flowers and Vegetables at www.Burpee.com

WARMINSTER, PA--(Marketwire - Nov 22, 2011) - Gardeners hoping to be the first to see what's new and hot for the 2012 gardening season can shop now for Burpee's new vegetables, flowers and garden-growing products online at Burpee.com.

Burpee has also launched a digital version of its 2012 Burpee catalog, so gardeners can actually "page through" the catalog in its entirety weeks before the print version arrives in mailboxes. Click here to access the digital version of Burpee's 2012 catalog.

"The November launch of our new catalog marks the earliest release of new product information in our company's 136-year history," says Burpee's chairman and CEO, George Ball.

The company hopes to satisfy the appetites of curious garden enthusiasts by offering new products earlier, continues Mr. Ball. This also makes garden planning more practical for southern gardeners who start their seeds as early as December and January.

Want to know more about what's in vogue for the 2012 gardening season? Here's a look at a selection of the more than 150 new Burpee innovations that are predicted to be instant sensations for 2012.

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Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide

Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution are working on visual recognition software to help identify species from photographs. Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed to demonstrate this new technology. This free mobile app helps identify tree species from photographs of their leaves and contains beautiful high-resolution images of their flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. Leafsnap currently includes the trees of New York City and Washington, D.C., and will soon grow to cover the trees of the entire continental United States.

Planting seeds of growth | Stuff.co.nz

Southern Woods Tree Nursery expects a return to revenue growth of 15 per cent to 20 per cent this year after a flatter 2008. Its seed-sourcing-to-plant business is in demand despite the recession. Under the ownership of Murray and Susy Mannall since 1997, the Templeton nursery is a $3 million-a-year company with growth helped by staff ideas and a new marketing emphasis. Read more>
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Front Yard Garden of the Week: Landscaping is team effort for Bemidji couple

Terra and Charlie have been busy propagating plants to get ready for our short summer growing season. Terra started a large amount of her own flowers and vegetables from seeds, multiplied her favorites by stem cuttings, and, using her favorite propagation method, gathering seeds and plants from family members and friends. A couple of Terra’s most treasured plants are the purple irises from her grandma and the peonies from her great-grandma found tucked in the side yard by her grandpa’s antique plow and other found treasures. Read more:

Seeds of success - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com

PEORIA — .Behm & Hagemann Inc. truly is a growing business. The company has been selling its trademark "Lifetyme" grass seed in plain, cotton bags for over 60 years. "We're in the right business for these economic times. Sales are up," said owner Diane Joynt, who purchased the company at 3021 W. Farmington Road three years ago. Despite a business downturn, grass seed sales in 2009 are up 17 percent over last year, she said
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It's time to think about fall vegetables

Chicago gardening
By Beth Botts Special to the Tribune
July 5, 2009

Now that the fireworks are over, it's time to think about fall. Yes, many seeds for fall vegetable crops should be sown in July. You can direct-sow beets, cabbage, carrots, spinach and lettuce now, and sow broccoli, cabbage and turnips in August.

Plan to sow a new crop of radishes and leaf lettuce every week or so for several weeks to have them ready until frost. Lettuce and spinach benefit from shade during part of the day. But remember that the days are now growing shorter, so the plants will get less sunlight as summer proceeds.

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Man of will planted seeds of success in North Dakota | INFORUM | Fargo, ND

Rarely does a father-son combination excel in different fields at the community, state and national level. Because of the contributions made by Oscar Will and his son George, North Dakota is richer in the areas of agriculture, education, history and anthropology. By: Curtis Eriksmoen, INFORUM Rarely does a father-son combination excel in different fields at the community, state and national level. Because of the contributions made by Oscar Will and his son George, North Dakota is richer in the areas of agriculture, education, history and anthropology. The seed business established by Oscar Will used crops harvested by Native Americans to enrich the varieties of hardy grains and vegetables grown in the Upper Great Plains. His work in education was rewarded by having a school named after him. George Will continued to expand the seed business and was also active in turning out more than 100 works on anthropology, history and horticulture. He also translated important historical works into English. Read more:
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How to Plant Vegetable Seeds with Success

Get the most from your garden, especially the veggies that can save you serious money.

Figfip? That would be Food Gardeners' Fine Points (FGFP), a new occasional series inspired by my friends Matt and Shannon, who wrote:

"We have some very exciting news. After nearly three years on the waiting list, Shannon and I now have a plot in the community garden next to our apartment building!!!.... Naturally, I have a mile-long list of vegetables I'd like to grow...."

He meant it; it is a mile long, ending with: "Are there any realistic choices for two newbies from that list? We're prepared for failures and setbacks. But we're also giddy with enthusiasm."

Who could resist an appeal like that?

M&S may be newbies but they're certainly not dummies. They already have the usual gardening manuals and an unusually large ability to conduct web searches. They even have a resident sage at the community garden.

But a lot of "how to" leaves out choice tidbits. Some information does get dated. And I don't always agree with the sage, even though he's right with them in Washington, D.C. and I am in New England.

So from now on, when I'm doing something in the garden and it makes me think, "I ought to tell Matt and Shannon about this," I will. And as I have just been planting vegetable seeds, that's where we're going to start.

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Drought-tolerant seed could boost corn crop

BY RICK PLUMLEE
The Wichita Eagle

A first-generation, drought-tolerant corn seed that Monsanto recently helped develop could increase yield in Kansas up to 50 percent, according to a Kansas State University crop ecologist.
"This could be very significant," said Kraig Roozeboom, an assistant professor for crop production at K-State.

Use of the genetically modified seed will primarily target land that yields 130 bushels or less and is not irrigated, said Tom Ruff, director of yield and emerging technologies for St. Louis-based Monsanto.

Over the past 10 years, Kansas has averaged 130.6 bushels per acre, ranging from 115 to 150 bushels. Last year's crop yielded 134 bushels.

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Demand for Vegetable Seeds Is Rooted in Recession

By Adrian Higgins
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 15, 2009

In 1784, an Englishman named David Landreth opened a seed store in downtown Philadelphia, confident that newly independent Americans would also want the freedom of growing their own food.

The D. Landreth Seed Co., one of the oldest surviving corporations in the nation, has seen several owners and many shifts in its fortunes in the intervening 225 years. But if Landreth were looking down on his enterprise today, he probably would be grinning. After years in the doldrums, the consumer demand for vegetable seeds has abruptly climbed at a rate even industry veterans have never seen.

This spring, sales at Landreth are "up 75 percent over last year," said Barbara Melera, a former venture capitalist who bought the company in 2003. Moving between the shelves of bulk seed containers in her warehouse in New Freedom, Pa., she pointed out varieties that are almost sold out: Detroit Dark Red beets, Danvers Half Long carrots, Bloomsdale Long Standing spinach. She had no kale or a popular beet variety, Lutz. "We have a modest amount of beans left."

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