All The Gigglers(20 different seed packets)
Can’t decide what to get? We have put all of the packets into a “cowpot” . Makes a fun gift and they can plant all season. Lettuce , peas and kale, early and late, tomato and peppers and the rest of the family, spring and summer-its a great way to spend the days-in the garden that is…
Back to the Garden
12-pack(1 egg box)
This is our idea of “the basic garden box” and while we have covered all “the basics,” the selection is anything but basic. With almost a dozen heirloom varieties, we have included some of the best tasting standards such as the Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean and the cold hardy Giant Winter Spinach.
Add to that, Bull’s Blood Beet, not only delicious as a beet but the red-purple leaves are a great addition to your salad bowl. The variety and color of these vegetables will inspire any gardener and the tear-away carton is your answer to any transplant worries. We always include some extra seeds in the packets, in case you are inspired to grow “row by row”.
What's In The Box?
12 individual seed packs with 5-6 seeds- one for your box extra for the garden. Coir discs to use for soil; 12 wooden name tags and of course alot of love!
Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean; Bulls's Blood beet; De Ciccio Broccoli; Ruby Red Chard; Rosa Bianca Egg Plant; California Wonder Pepper; French Breakfast Radish; Giant Wonder Spinach; Yellow Brandywine Tomato; Cherokee Purple Tomato; Hales's best melon; Lemon Cucumber
Bull Nose Pepper Seeds
Capsicum annuum ‘Bull nose’
Some like it hot and some like it sweet and they will always like the Bull nose pepper. When you slice this delicious pepper it looks like a bull’s nose. How much fun is that?
These wonderful peppers came from India in 1759. They start out green and turn red and were so admired Thomas Jefferson grew them in Monticello.
Sweet peppers can be grown anywhere as long as you have 4 months without frost. You can also grow sweet peppers in containers. Start indoors 5 to 7 weeks before setting outside in garden. Just think in about 58 days you will have delicious peppers in your garden-no bull!
Casper Eggplant Seeds
Solanum melongena ‘Casper’
It’s a ghost, it’s a bird, no it’s an eggplant! It’s a white eggplant that is a show stopper in the garden. Delicious and fun, the fruits are early to bear fruit and this one can even take some wetter days.
Eggplants like a well drained bed and lots manure-must be why they have those big tummies. Their favorite day is hot and humid. Start the seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before planting in the garden. Since they like it warm, plant them in the garden two weeks after your last frost. If your plants get too big indoors, transplant them into a bigger pot-they won’t mind. In 75 days you can introduce your friends to an Eggplant named Casper.
Coir Disc (5 Disc pack)
Made from coconut hulls, these incredible discs grow to eight times their height -it’s magic- well maybe magical for the plants. This soiless, renewable product is our favorite way to start seeds and grow plants.
Popular in greenhouses all over Europe, more and more professional growers are using Coir. It cuts down on many of the soil borne diseases and the plants love it.
Packed 5 to a roll each disc makes 1.2 quarts of potting soil and each package gives you 6 qts of soil.
Cosmic Purple Carrot
Daucus carota subsp. Sativus ‘Cosmic purple’
A purple carrot? Wasn’t that a purple cow? What will they think of next? Actually, purple carrots have been around forever(900AD) Orange carrots came later.
These fun carrots are purple outside and orange inside. Sweet and juicy they grow to 7 inches. Since carrots like room to stretch make sure your garden bed has looser soil for this one. Before you plant, soak them for 12 hours. Start them in your garden while it is still cool. Plant in a row and thin them out. They take a long time to come up so don’t worry. In about 70 days you can give mom a purple carrot for her salad!
Cow Bean
Phaseaolus vulgaris
Hey a cow bean. This is one of our favorites. It’s easy to grow and produces a lot of pods. Some people call it Orca (the whale. It is a member of the kidney bean family. Delicious as a bake bean they are fun to serve because they keep their color after cooking.
Beans prefer rich soil in a sunny location. Make sure that you keep them watered deeply in the heat of the summer. Soaking is preferred to using overhead sprinklers Bush beans don’t need a trellis. Plant 1½ inches deep, every two to three inches in rows 24 inches apart. Wait until they are brittle and snap open easily to get the beans(about 90 days)
Cow pot 6 cell tray (6 pack)
These 6 cell tray cowpots are perfect for your new seedlings. Just the right size for starting the larger vegetables, like the pole beans and tomatoes, they can be planted along with your plant right into your garden.
Made out of cow manure, they are odorless and a perfect food for your plant. Biodegradeable, they will begin fertilizing your new plant right away. The perfect slow release, organic food for your plant.
Includes: 6 of the 6 cell trays
Cowpot seed starter pot (12 pack)
These cowpots are perfect for your new seedlings. Just the right size for the starting the larger vegetables, like the pole beans and tomatoes, they can be planted along with your plant right into your garden.
The pot will deteriorate over the first few weeks and fertilizer your plant. Even if the roots grow into the pot, it won't hurt.
Biodegradeable and certainly sustainable these are perfect for the truly green gardener.
Dinosaur Kale
Brassica oleracea
This heirloom kale has dark green crinkly leaves that look like dinosaur skin…Dino in the vegetable patch. Like other kale it doesn’t like hot weather so you can start it indoors and then plant in the garden well before the last frost for spring plants or even better, plant seed outside in the fall for winter veggies.
It likes the cold weather. These plants can get pretty big so give it some room(about 15”) Like it’s cousin, the cabbage, kale likes a lot of water but not all the time. It doesn’t need much fertilizer and it’s not picky about soil; even likes clay soils. Here’s an old trick- put eggshells around the plant…it loves the calcium-it will be ready to pick in 50 days.
Dragon Carrot Seeds
Hey look it’s a red carrot, not only that, it’s a red Dragon carrot! This wonderful carrot is a “Chantenay” – fat on the top, thin on the bottom. It grows well in heavy soils because it can wedge itself into the ground. the tall carrots like lighter soil
A hardy biennial(grows for 2 years), you can plant the seeds in the garden after the last frost and then reseed until early summer. Remember plant enough for you and any Bugs Bunnies living in your garden... This is an easy carrot to grow and you should be munching in about 85 days.
Earth friendly Wonder Soil
A complete rich all organic potting mix compressed into dry compact wafers. The recycled tube holds 18 individula 2½” wafers. Each wafer will expand to fill a 4” to 5” pot when water is added.
The wafers are composed of a special formula with water saving polymers, worm castings and organic fertilizers that feed up to 4 months and promote exceptional gardening results.
Use year round for all containers and outdoor gardening applications.
The soil improves seed germination and reduces seedling “die off”
Easter Egg Radish
Raphanus sativus ‘Easter Egg’
This year surprise the Easter Bunny with some crispy, crunchy radishes. These red, pink, purple, violet, and white radishes are a great way to perk up the salad.
Plant the seeds right in the garden. Radish seeds do best in cool weather, just like their cousins, cabbage and broccoli so start them 3-4 weeks before the last frost in Spring or late in the fall. Sow radish seeds 1/2 inch deep and two inches apart. You’ll see your new plants in a few days and in just 30 days your garden will be in the pink, with pink radishes that is.
Freckles Lettuce
This unusually bright green HEIRLOOM is a romaine lettuce splattered with crimson splashes that look like freckles It grows tall and early so it’s a good lettuce to start your garden in the spring. Everybody loves freckles so the name is perfect because everybody loves the buttery taste of this lettuce. It has a slightly sweet flavor and it doesn’t mind a little hot weather.
Start it early and it will last longer. You can also start it in the fall(cooler). Unlike most of your other veggies, lettuce only need 5 hours of sun so you can grow it in part sun to keep it cooler. So plant it early and you should have freckles in 30 days!
Green Arrow Peas
Pisum sativum var sativum
Who wouldn’t like a pea named Green arrow? This one is a straight shooter from England. Some like it hot, but peas like it cold.
. Plant seeds every 3 inches in the garden 6 to 8 weeks before the last spring frost. When the seeds sprout, thin to one plant every 3 inches. Grow the peas on a trellis as the peas like to climb. Keep the ground wet after germination, and don’t feed too much or you’ll have more leaves than peas The 2 ft plants have 4 1/2 to 5 inch pods, each stuffed with 8 to 11 petite, deep-green peas. In 68 days you’ll have more than two peas in a pod!
Green Zebra Tomato Seeds
How can you not love a fresh tomato out of your garden-especially a green stripped tomato? This sweet, delicious tomato is one of our favorites and though it is “technically” not an heirloom, it is open pollinated and bred from four heirloom varieties.
We had to include it, afterall with a name like Green Zebra, what's not to love?
easy to start from seed this tomato matures in 78 days on an indeterminate vine. The plant grows to 9ft with 6oz tomatoes
Heirloom Tomatoes
6-pack(1 egg carton)
“There’s just two things that money can’t buy and that’s true love and home grown tomatoes!” – Anon
How true especially for this selection of incredible edible heirloom tomatoes.
From the good old standby Brandywine to the scrumptious Cherokee Purple or the Green Zebra, you’ll be lucky if the harvest ever makes it to your kitchen table. They are so delicious you will want to eat them off the vine!
You can’t go wrong with this box, it’s a gardeners delight and a cook's dream - your gift or theirs… maybe you should get one for each of you.
What's in the box?
6 seed packs, coir sidc(soil), 6 plant tags and alot of love!
Yellow perfection Tomato, Principe Borghese Tomato, Brandywine Tomato, Green Zebra Tomato, Gilbertie Paste Tomato, Cherokee Purple Tomato
Here Comes The SUNflowers
6-pack(1 egg carton)
This wonderful “sampler” of sunflowers is perfect for that sunny spot in the garden. You and the birds will love these bright, sunny faces all season long.
Sunflowers are easy to seed in the garden but we want you to get a head start. Grow them in the carton and then tear away each cell and transplant in your garden in the spring. Sunflowers don’t like to move around so this is ideal-they’ll never know they moved. Plant them all together and enjoy!
What's in the box?
6 individual seed packs-one for the box and more for the garden. Coir discs for your soil; 6 wooden plant tags and alot of love!
Includes: Autumn Beauty Mix, Lemon Queen Sunflower, Mammoth Sunflower, Ornamental Mix, Teddy Bear Sunflower, Sunrise Lemon.
Moon and Stars Watermelon
Citrullus lanatus
We can promise you the moon and the stars with this HEIRLOOM melon from the 1920’s. It is deliciously sweet and can grow up to 20 lbs with spots that look like little moons and stars. How could you not like it?
They like the hot weather, so if you live up north start seeds indoors to give them time to grow. Watermelon is 90% water and if you give it water, sunshine (8 hrs a day) and lots of room it is easy to grow. Just remember it doesn’t like the cold weather. You can fertilize the plants, but after you see the first flowers, don’t feed your plants. In about 100 days you should see the moon and the stars in your garden!
Painted Serpent Cucumber
Cucumis melo ‘Painted serpent’
Imagine a painted serpent in your garden that you can pick and eat! This Cucumber with it’s fuzzy stripped body sometimes coils like a snake, but it always taste delicious.
Cucumbers are a subtropical so plant in full sun and with space to grow-a trellis helps if space is limited. Cucumbers are happiest around 70 degrees so plant them in late spring or early summer when there is no risk of frost. You can grow your cucumber starter plants indoors up to 2 weeks before you’re ready to plant. Transplant after risk of frost has passed.In 70 days you can slay the serpent and eat the cuke!
Pink Banana Squash
Cucurbita pepo ‘Pink banana jumbo’
If you were an American Pioneer in the 1890’s you probably ate a Pink Banana Squash! In fact it was a favorite back then.
These pink banana like squash with their velvety skin can grow up 24” in length and weigh 10lbs. Some plants have 30 fruits so don’t plant too many. No wonder the pioneers liked them-think of the pies they could make. Plant the seed one inch deep, directly into the garden- someplace warm ,well-drained and with a lot of space. Add compost, a lot of water and some love ;your squash and you will be in the pink in just 50 days.
Rattlesnake Pole Bean
Phaseolus vulgare
Now I have heard of a snake in the grass, but not a rattle snake on a pole bean! Okay so really it’s the dried beans that look like rattlesnakes. The beans are covered with purple stripes that stand out in your garden.
It’s not only a fun bean to grow it but it likes the heat so you can keep growing it all summer. It can grow to 10 feet with 7 inch pods so give it some room. If you grow it on a teepee trellis you can have 3 plants together. Beans like their toes (roots) to be warm so don’t plant them too early. Wait a few weeks after the last frost and in 65 days you’ll have” beans, beans the musical fruit!”
Red Leprechaun Lettuce
Lactuca sativa ‘red leprechaun’
Our favorite lettuce in the garden this small, but fun red and green leafy lettuce is like a pot of gold. Maybe that’s why they call it the Red Leprechaun, its small enough to grow in a pot or in the garden.
Plant your seeds inside and move the plants outside early and then reseed for another crop. Lettuce likes cooler temperatures so don’t wait too long. They are an easy choice because they don’t require much, grow fast and the leaves can be picked soon. They also only need 5 hours of sunlight so they can stay cooler in part sun. Plant this one and you will be seeing red leprechauns (lettuce that is) in the garden in about 50 days.
Red Salad Bowl
Lactuca sativa ‘red salad bowl’
Now you get to grow beautiful red salad bowls in your garden! What will they think of next. Actually this lettuce has loose oak shaped leaves that get a bronze color as it grows. It has a cousin named Green Salad Bowl.
It grows fast and is very slow to bolt so it is suitable for warmer climates in earlty spring. The color is best in cooler weather. The first baby leaves are ready in 28 days . Full size are ready in 55 days. Be sure to try this one as it is easy and delicious.
Sweet Chocolate Pepper Seeds
Sorry they don’t exactly taste like chocolate, but they do look like they have been dipped in chocolate! They start out green and then turn deep chocolate. This sweet peeper has a thick red interior which makes a pretty display on any plate.
First grown in 1965, these delicious peppers can stand colder nights. Start them indoors and you will have plenty of time for a chocolate pepper salad. Ready in 70 days.
The Giggling Garden
12-pack(1 egg box)
This garden is for the child in all of us! One of our favorites, all of these vegetables are not only heirloom their names and looks will make anyone say “I love my vegetables”. Honestly we didn’t make the names up; there really is a Red Dragon Carrot, a Dinosaur Kale and some Rattlesnake Pole Beans.
This is a garden that will help you and your child or grandchild grow! We have tried to make it as fun as we could, but we left room for you to add some fun. Teach the young person in your life the joy of the garden …and how those vegetables (“ugh”) will not only make them smile, but they actually taste good. This garden speaks to one of our greatest passions here at Garden In The Koop, the health and well being of our children. We brought them fast food and an often too fast lifestyle. Why not bring them back to the slow food and, your garden? Teach them to plant their garden!
What's In The Box?
12 individual seed packs with 5-6 seeds- one for your box extra for the garden. Coir discs to use for soil; 12 wooden name tags and of course alot of love!
Includes: Rattlesnake Pole Bean, Cow Bean, Dragon Carrot, Veronica Romanesco Cauliflower, Green Zebra Tomato, Dinosaur Kale, Moon & Stars Watermelon, Benning's Green Tint Squash, Purple Top Globe Turnip, Freckles Lettuce, Purple Tomatillo, Tom Thumb Popcorn
The Incredible Edible Flower Garden
COMING SOON
12-pack
With this wonderful box your vegetable garden will look and feel more like grandmother’s garden. These flowers are not only lovely to look at; they are even more lovely and delicious to eat. The “lily pad like” nasturtium leaves are “hot” in any salad; only outdone by the colorful edible flowers. Bachelor buttons? Who thought you could pick them and then eat them? “Please don’t eat the daisies”. Please do, at least the English Daisies. What a delightful table you will set with these flowers sitting on your plate!
The Incredible Edible Flower Garden
COMING SOON
12-pack
With this wonderful box your vegetable garden will look and feel more like grandmother’s garden. These flowers are not only lovely to look at; they are even more lovely and delicious to eat. The “lily pad like” nasturtium leaves are “hot” in any salad; only outdone by the colorful edible flowers. Bachelor buttons? Who thought you could pick them and then eat them? “Please don’t eat the daisies”. Please do, at least the English Daisies. What a delightful table you will set with these flowers sitting on your plate!
The Patio Garden
6-pack
For those of you who want to grow your veggies but don’t have a garden….we brought the garden to you with something for your patio, your deck or even the fire escape!
We picked six of our favorites that like smaller spaces. Red and Yellow Pear Tomatoes of course, a fun and tasty Sweet Chocolate Pepper(sorry just the color is chocolate) , French Breakfast Radish, boy will your salad be a hit. We even added the Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean, after all it took Jack straight up so it doesn’t need much room, just a bean pole! Enjoy and stop and pick the the peppers!
What's in the box?
12 seed packs, soil, name tags and whole lot of love.
Includes: Red Pear Tomato, Yellow Pear Tomato, French Breakfast Radish, Benning's Green Tint Squash, Sweet Chocolate Pepper, Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean
The Patio Garden
6-pack
For those of you who want to grow your veggies but don’t have a garden….we brought the garden to you with something for your patio, your deck or even the fire escape!
We picked six of our favorites that like smaller spaces. Red and Yellow Pear Tomatoes of course, a fun and tasty Sweet Chocolate Pepper(sorry just the color is chocolate) , French Breakfast Radish, boy will your salad be a hit. We even added the Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean, after all it took Jack straight up so it doesn’t need much room, just a bean pole! Enjoy and stop and pick the the peppers!
What's in the box?
12 seed packs, soil, name tags and whole lot of love.
Includes: Red Pear Tomato, Yellow Pear Tomato, French Breakfast Radish, Benning's Green Tint Squash, Sweet Chocolate Pepper, Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean
The Salad Box
Easy to grow and even easier to eat, this wonderful selection of lettuce is a tasty addition to any salad bowl. We included some varieties you may not have seen before…
They are all heirlooms that have always been the chef's choice. Rouge D'Hiver with its buttery texture, Tom Thumb, perfect for tight places, and Red Leprechaun with its maroon leaves just to name a few.
Try this box you'll look like you've been gardening for years!
What's in the box?
6 seed packs, coir disc(soil), 6 name tags and alot of love!
Includes: Freckles Lettuce, Green Salad bowl, Red Leprechaun, Tom Thumb, Red Salad Bowl, Rouge D'Hiver
Tigger Melon
Cucumis melo ‘Tigger’
Hey is that a tigger in your tank or in your garden? These cute little melons(baseball size) are a vibrant yellow with red zigzag stripes that look like a tiger. They come from Armenia and smell wonderful in the garden.
The insides are white and taste sweeter in the drier climates. Plant the seed one inch deep, directly into the garden- someplace warm ,well-drained and with a lot of space. Add compost, a lot of water and some love and in 90 days there will be a tigger in your garden.

