George Ball’s 150-year-old seed company invented iceberg lettuce, the Big Boy tomato and other groundbreaking vegetables ...

Burpee CEO Jamie Mattikow and Horticulturalist Kira Silvestri Discuss Company Legacy, New Seed Collections, and Tips for Growing Season NEW YORK, March 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Founded in 1876, ...

WARMINSTER, Pa., Sept. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Feeding America(R), the nation’s largest hunger relief organization, has partnered for the first time with Burpee Gardening to help spur action to end ...

One only needs to note the proliferation of Victory Gardens during World War II or the past year’s explosion of community plots to know that when economic times are tough, Americans head back to the ...

'Ultra Violet' Hybrid Corn The source that introduced yellow sweet corn to American gardens now offers the world's first truly sweet purple corn. ‘Ultra Violet' delivers the sugary satisfaction of ...

The W. Atlee Burpee Co., affectionately known as “Burpee seeds” to millions of American gardeners, is the nation’s largest home seed and plant company and was founded in Philadelphia in 1876, at the ...

Burpee Seeds has a long history in the American mail-order seed business. The Burpees date to the late 1800s as a prominent Philadelphia family. W. Atlee Burpee was born in 1858 and was expected to ...

Though it might not seem as if the companies selling Brach’s candy marshmallow Easter Hunt Eggs, Jell-O, and seeds for vegetables and plants have much in common, James “Jamie” Mattikow sees many ...

IF you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk. If you want to be happy for a weekend. get married. But if you want to be happy all your life, become a gardener.” So goes an old proverb often quoted ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: April 5th, 1858, 157 years ago today ... the day Washington Atlee Burpee was born in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. His family moved to ...

I love old books about gardening. Each winter I set aside some time to read a few: There are always tricks of the trade that have gotten lost over time, or once-beloved plants that are now largely ...