Our friends at Botanical Interests have given us two of their seed collections to give away. The Basic Bounty Veggie Garden Seed Collection includes Bean-Bush Blue Lake 274, Corn-Bodacious, Leaf Lettuce-Salad Bowl Blend Organic, Sweet Pepper-Sweet California Wonder Organic, Radish-Cherry Belle, Summer Squash-Black Beauty Zucchini, Tomato-Better Bush.
Basic Bounty Veggie Garden Seed Collection
The Heirloom Tomato Seed Collection includes Cherry Red & Yellow Pear Organic, Aunt Ruby’s German Green Organic, Beefsteak Organic, Black Krim Organic, Brandywine, Cherokee Purple Organic, San Marzano Organic.
Heirloom Tomato Seed Collection
The contest rules are simple. Leave a comment below and tell us the name of your favorite vegetable to grow (or would like to grow if you’re a gardening newbie). The deadline for entering is Saturday, March 31, at midnight CDT. We will pick two winners at random on April 1st, one for each seed collection. Winners will be notified via email, and then announced in a followup post.
Happy gardening.
Hi all. The deadline for entry has passed, and we have selected two winners. The winners will be announced in a followup post once we hear back from them. Thanks so much to everyone for participating!
tomatoes, they are the one vegetable that will always be better out of the backyard garden.
My favorite vegetable plant to grow is the tomato. They get so big and produce such beautiful fruit that are so delicious. I like discovering the colorful globes, like on an Easter egg hunt. Late summer and fall provides me the best tomatoes I get all year. I like the way the plants smell, too!
I LOVE to grow tomatoes. No tomato purchased in a grocery store ever tastes like a homegrown tomato. When in Heaven, I will continue to plant thousands of tomato plants!
Tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes. Nothing like fresh off the vine onto a white bread and mayo sandwich.
Peppers and Tomatoes…..gotta grow them both
I LOVE growing Swiss Chard – especially the “Bright Lights” variety. The beautiful colors really brighten up my spring & fall garden – and I especially like cooking with. I can prepare it sauteed, stir fried, in soups and gratins.
First off I want to tell you how much I love Botanical Interests products! I have been purchasing from them through out the years as my main seed source. Most of the varieties in these seed collections you are offering I have not tried so I really hope to win! I am a big believer in sharing seedlings or trading with other gardeners or if someone is just starting out! It is so fun and rewarding to grow your own fruits, veggies, and herbs! Its addictive! The people you meet, friends you make, the knowledge you gain, not to mention the therapy, stress relief, and patience are just a few of the riches you absorb in the world of gardening.
I must confess I can not pick a favorite vegetable to grow. I love growing them all! However I do have an ever growing desire to try a winter garden. I live in Georgia and with VERY mild Winters it can be a bit tricky to grow some veggies that prefer cooler temperatures. I am hoping to give it a go this Fall/Winter of 2012. I very much enjoy growing new things because I love learning about anything pertaining to the world of gardening. The knowledge I achieve not only benefits myself but those around me or those who I meet on my journey through life especially in the realm of gardening!
If I win these seeds it’s going to benefit my friends, family, neighbors, and community! I am so excited! Thank you very much for this opportunity! I hope to turn others on to such a diverse and very rewarding part of life.
Thank you for reading my little blurb, Denise
All of them! But my absolute favorite is hot chiles. I like to experiment with different varieties each year.
i love growing carrots. the more colors, the better!
Green Beans!! Whether growing them in a bean tepee with the “help” of my children or growing the bush variety for us to pick together in the summer sunshine. Ahhhhh…. 🙂
I love growing peppers, so far this year starting 28 varietys.
Leeks! So tasty in everything. Too expensive at the grocer and lacking intense flavor.
I grow tomatoes, peppers & herbs. Mainly, containers for me because I hate to weed!
The big three: tomatoes, peppers, and garlic; they just naturally go together in a sauce, to can.
I have never grown beans.i saw some beautiful ones last year and they are on my list for this summer.
I love tomatoes, peppers, and squash fresh out of the garden!
My favorite vegetable to grow is sugar snap peas, especially Super Sugar Snap and Cascadia. I must confess that almost none of the Cascadia sugar snaps make it to the weighing scale, because I scarf them down right in the garden.
Nothing tastes as good as a home grown heirloom tomato 🙂 Can’t wait for this year’s crop!!
Cucumbers. So very many cucumbers. And any brassica ever.
1st in Spring lettuce & radishes then everything through till parsnips and winter squash. Yum If I can only pick one thing it would probably be tomatoes
Mmmmm, Black Beauty Zucchini sounds amazing. I would love to grow that and then eat it… with some olive oil and salt.. roasted over a fire pit…
I’d also really like Yellow Pear Tomatoes. I had never eaten a yellow tomato till last year. Before that I could have lived without tomatoes, but popping those yellow babies in my mouth completely changed the game! Mmm….
i just love tomato plants to grow, i can get their seed really easy. they grow fast and i love to eat it too. lol. thanks for the giveaway.
Had to give my new CobraHead to my brother, but now at least there is one of them at every place where I do any gardening! Those seed packages are beautiful.
My favorite food to grow is PEAS, and my 4-year-old niece and I planted ours last weekend along the fence by the pool at her house. Yummy!
Good to see y’all in Philly…
While nothing beats a garden tomato (dill bread, havarti, and freshed sliced tomato – my favorite summer sandwich!), my favorite veggie to grow would be Sugar Snap peas. I never, ever grow enough! Most of them don’t make it inside because I munch on them right out of the garden.
I’d have to say tomatoes are my favorite; even when I I don’t have time to plant anything else, I still get at least a few tomatoes. I’m actually going to garden in some raised beds this year – I’m so looking forward to it! I’d love to have a bunch of heirloom tomatoes. I saved seeds from one amazing purple heirloom we ate last year. Yummy! Can’t wait to have lots of them.
Of course home grown tomatoes are to die for, nothing like them compares in stores. But I love sugar snap peas, none make it inside once I start picking. Also, fresh small zucchini’s on the grill are so amazing my mouth is watering just thinking about it. But one of my all time favorites are fresh potatoes. The Yellow Fin’s and German Butterballs grilled taste like they already have butter on them…YUM!!!
And everyone should grow their own kale. This is one of the easiest greens to grow and the nutritional content is the best one on the planet. My favorite variety is the red russian kale because the leaves are flat and very tender. Kale salad is just the best. And if you have a dehydrator, kale chips are the bomb!
I love growing organic Bloomsdale Longstanding and Tyee spinach because they are so delicious and nutritious and can be eaten both raw and steamed. A friend of mine says that the spinach I grow tastes much better than anything sold at a farmers market. And I also love growing cherry tomatoes in Oakland, CA and ate them from August through December last season and from August through January the previous year.
I love rosemary, because it will.not.die and that’s pretty rare around here. In terms of vegetables, though, I can’t have a summer without tomatoes. They’re essential. And peppers, and cilantro, so we can have salsa. 🙂
Our favorite to grow is spinach. We get a spring crop and a fall crop, and it even overwinters a bit. Potatoes, sweet corn, cukes, herbs. Now I’m getting hungry!
I love raising different peppers. Would love to find a tomato that does well in a semi-shade back yard. Trying to raise sweet potatoes this year.
Love growing peppers!
I love to grow bitter melon and Italian pole beans. I had them right next to each other last summer.
Cucumbers are my favorites! They disappear — sometimes I eat them before even leaving the garden — as soon as they are ripe enough to pick. Pickling, burpless, long and skinny: I love ’em all.
I love to grow tomatoes, green beans (Blue Lake) and yellow squash – but my favorite is collard greens. Mine have been absolutely beautiful the past two seasons.
Yellow Beans, for sure!
I was going to pick tomato as my favorite plant to grow because, of course, it tastes so go from a home garden. but I really have never had much success growing them myself. I love to grow, pick and eat shell peas. they never make it to a freezer. I have occasionally dug seeds in under the snow around spring break and had a lucky crop.
correction “it tastes so GOOD from a home garden.
I love growing garlic because it is the first thing coming up in early spring if planted in October, and mulch properly. It is the first start of salsa for the year. Garlic is a very good looking plant in the garden. strong and healthy, real inspiring for a gardner to see in spring.
Picking my favorite veggie is not an easy thing to do. I think asparagus and sugar snap peas would have to share the spotlight. Every spring day I faithfully head out to my asparagus patch to look for the first asparagus shoots. My corgi and I share them fresh in the garden. Nothing is better.
Now this is a tough question. It is completely dependent upon the part of the season we’re in. For example, who could deny that tender lettuce that practically melts in your mouth is the best? But what about a thick, juicy flavorful tomato & corn on the cob for dinner with watermelon for dessert? Or in the dead of the winter, pulling out some pesto to bring the flavors of summer to a cold day? So to answer the question at hand, I would have to say that it’s like colors – many can be favorites depending on the context in which they’re used.
Tomatoes and herbs. I’m looking forward to growing some chili peppers soon.
I love growing organic veggies and herbs. I juice everyday and being a veggie/vegan family, we cannot get enough! My daughter just loves fresh veggies from the garden and looking forward to planting and making our garden this year! What a great selection and addition to any families table~
I enjoy growing my own herbs. Love growing a variety of tomatoes best of all.
I love basil .. it makes everything taste good. I want to try cilantro this year.
Tomatoes. you can’t buy them as good as you can grow them.
Seed give away?? Ive got some room in the garden!
My favorite vegetable to pick from the garden are cucumbers. Yummy!
I love growing all kinds of veggies, fruits and herbs! If i had to pick a fave it would have to be zucchini. My family loves it. We do breaded zucchini “fries”, zucchini “chips” (the grand kids can’t get enough!) and we love deep frying the flowers!!! So much out of one fruit, how could you go wrong?!
You can’t get any better than a fresh picked tomato also!!
I would be thrilled if I won either set. So would my friends and family! I would be cooking and canning for days! 😀
Salsa gardens and pickles! Hehe….tomatillas, various tomatoes cilantro onions herbs and pickling cucumbers!
Only one? I might say tomatoes, as they are of course best of all fresh off the vine, but as they’re also fruit I’ll keep going. Peas, beans, and cukes are wonderful to pick right out of the garden as well, and especially enticing to children… but for almost year ’round productivity and lemony goodness, I’ll vote for sorrel: always the first edible up in the spring, harvestable almost through the winter this year (limp during a freeze but then recovers as soon as it thaws), perennial and easy to keep going. Yay sorrel!
I LOVE Botanical Interests seeds especially Black Krim tomatoes right when I first harvest them when they’re still warm from the sun and have a bite. They usually don’t make it home (I have a plot at my community garden) because I hose them off and eat them like an apple right there.
I love growing green beans. No matter how frequently I pick, I always find more ready to be picked.
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I love growing tomatoes! Nothing beats the taste of a backyard tomato!
I love tomatoes, ripe from the vine, Yummy!
I am just getting started as a vegetables. I have grown cherry tomatoes and I will be starting lettuce soon. I would like to try peppers. I guess that is my plug for pepper seeds if I am lucky enough to win the seed giveaway.
Got my cobra at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Haven’t used it yet but this year we plan to expand our urban garden to include bell peppers, broccoli and tomatoes. We have tried corn, carrots, beans and peas in the past with best success with beans and peas. Would love to try some mew seeds.
Botanical Interest seeds even germinate at 7,500′ el. I am looking for them.
PEAS! There’s nothing like eating sweet green peas fresh off the vine.
Love growing all types of squash – or at least trying. Borers usually win out in the end, but it doesn’t stop me from trying 🙂
Tomatoes!! Nothing compares to homegrown tomatoes… I only wish we could grow them year-round!
I’ve tried to grow watermelons before, but I just don’t live in a the right climate. More successfully, I love growing and eating tender young lettuce and arugula!
I find that the healthiest veggies, kale, keeps giving all season through and the hardier varieties plow through winter.
My favorite veggie to grow has to be kale. We get to munch on it nearly year round here most years. It is so nutritious and offers a feast for the eyes with its very cool leaves.
I love to grow all type of lettuce and greens. Salad every summer day, Yum!
I would love to grow a tomato that bears the name of a favorite character named “Large Marge”. Can you imagine the the response after eating this giant tomato. And when they go to buy them, they would exclaim…”Large Marge sent me”. All seriousness aside, I love to plant every spring and watch nature take its course, and I’m always thrilled with the results. “Hope springs eternal”
I love to grow Boonie Peppers from Guam. I developed a fondness for their taste when I was stationed there with the Coast Guard.
My favorite vegetable to grow is corn. I love the tall stalks and the beautiful leaves rustling in the breeze. Just looking at them as they begin to take on their height gives me this giant feeling of success!! When they are very small..I see the hope for their future and mine.
I hope to become better at growing winter squash. Thank you for offering this contest.
Rhubarb is one of my favorites. I love old-timey plants that have sort of fallen out of favor. Rhubarb has fallen out of popularity, like some other once-garden staples, because it takes a little extra time to get growing, and it also takes some time to cook properly–no eating it straight from the garden, I’m afraid. As I child I helped the women in my family cook and can it each year–it was this marvelous childhood experience.
Rhubarb is not normally grown from seed (though you can), which might make it an odd choice for this competition, but it has one of those unique flavor profiles that is unlike anything else. Rhubarb most definitely tastes like itself and nothing else. Because of that, it’s my choice.
I love growing cucumbers, mostly because I love pickles. Enough sun and a nice, rich dirt and they will just keep pumping out new little cukes.
This year, I am dying to try growing the Mexican Sour Gherkin – the most adorable variety of cucumber I have ever seen.
Love growing tomatoes for canning. Making salsa and spaghetti sauce along with past for cooking
I like cucumbers , love to make my own pickles, and also love them with a salad or even by them selves mmmmmmmmmm
This is our first year growing artichokes (technically not a vegetable I suppose). They are such beautiful plants and I love eating artichokes so I’m excited to see what we can do with them.
As the song says, “There’s only two things money can’t by. That’s true love and home grown tomatoes.” I grow over 10 heirlooms and can always use more.
okra! i love growing okra! pretty much pest free and deeelicious when they are young. the best thing is being able to pick them right off the stalk and eat them raw right in the garden! yum!!
We are still new to the heirloom/seed saving/gardening adventure, but we are excited to try saving seeds from some of our goodies this year. The reality is, we are new to gardening, but why learn how to do it wrong and then learn how to do it right…I guess we are just trying to do it right the first time…
Thanks for the comments,
Bruce
I really enjoy gardening. since be at mother earth fair in Pa. I try something new every year this year I a plantin 3 sisters garden
I love growing snow and sugar snap peas. 5 years ago I planted my first pea vine along one length of fence in my back yard. One morning I could not find my little girl in the house and looked in the back yard. I found my then 4 year old daughter standing in front of the peas, picking and eating them right off the vine. She now loves to help me plan and plant and we are out in the garden every planting season together.
I love to grow
Peas!!
I love growing summer squash and peppers! Really, I like to garden period. I’m so sad though that the woods around my house is creating more and more shade every year. So, this year I’m trying to do all container gardening. I’ll have to keep ya posted!
I love growing and eating brussel sprouts!!
tomatoes and summer squash- the best!
I love to pick a cherry tomato off the vine and pop it in my mouth while it is still warm from the sun. Sweeter than candy!!
Asparagus! I have a local nursery that has varieties for our cold, Northern climate. I am hopeful that I will be able to eat fresh asparagus for years to come!
Asparagus! I have a local nursery that has varieties for our cold, Northern climate. I am hopeful that I will be able to eat fresh asparagus for years to come! Boy, just making it by the skin of my teeth! No lottery but, I’d love to win one of these seed collections!
Last year was my first in trying Botanical Interests seeds. The tomatoes were the best I’ve ever grown. I would love to win more seeds to use in my garden this spring.
Pumpkins have always been a big favorite-we loved to watch the vines take over and all the pumpkins grow! We would then give them away to the neighbor kids, day cares and of course to carve our selves at Halloween. But we have not done this for a long long time! Maybe this year!
We love to try different tomatoes and peppers. Also sugar snap peas. We can eat while gardening and our grandkids love it also!
We live in an apartment but have a little pot of spinach and radishes. We are starting to see the first green poke through the soil. Yay spring!
In all honesty, I’ve never tried to grow Botanical interestd seeds. I tend to get my heirloom vegetates and tomatoes from gardening suppliers. And I tend to stick to very colorful vegetables and fruits. I truly enjoy eating and seeing all the beautiful colors of the different tomatoes. My favorites are black, purple, yellow. Don’t know why. Cherry tomatoes rarely make back to the house. They’re like chips, you can’t just have one.
I love working on my vegetable garden and sharing all wonderful taste and colors with family and friends. But, unfortunately last year all my gardens, raised beds and fruit trees got devoured by all the deer, raccoons, and groundhogs in my area. It was horrible. I got something in store for them this year. I lined all the bottom of my beds with biodegradable vegetable bed lining & chicken wire and i’m going to fence in the whole area.
I really enjoy gardening and look forward to March when I can start my tomato, pepper and eggplant seeds indoors. I grow about 18 different vegetables in my home and community garden and this year I am trying Botanical Interests Pickling Cucumbers. All my vegetables are my favorites because I grow what I like to eat–but my very favorite is my small sugar pumpkins that I use for pies and pumpkin muffins. It is fun to watch them grow all summer and the reward is in the fall.
It’s hard to pick my favorite vegetable because playing in the dirt is the fun part and watching something growing is amazing. Every time I plant seeds I think of the different possibilities I could do with what I grow.
It is so hard to choose a favorite! I have recently been experimenting with growing veggies indoors for the winter, and green beans are really producing well! So for year-round, indoors as well as out, I would say green beans – thjey look so pretty in a hanging pot!
TOMATOES! By far, my favorite! Yellow pear 🙂
I like growing lots of cucumbers because I love pickles!