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!

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.

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!

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)

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.

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.

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.

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!

. 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!

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

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!

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!

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.

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!”

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

You can sow the seeds outdoors one week after the last frost and if you are daring you can try to start some indoors. Remember use pots you can plant with the seedling so the roots are not disturbed. This is a fun corn because it is small ready to pick in 85 days and great for popcorn. You can really impress your friends when you invite them over for popcorn and a movie-your popcorn that is!