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Texas Sweet Onion (2 Pack)

Bonnie Plants® White Bermuda Onions are a cook's staple, making it the perfect, practical garden addition for homegrown meals. Each bunch contains 30 to 40 plants, perfect for filling your pantry with homegrown onions. An easy-to-grow, short-day variety ideal for southern gardens, this sweet onion tastes great eaten fresh, or use it to create your favorite recipes. Harvest young for green onions, use as cocktail onions, or pickle. Let the bulb mature fully, and use it fresh in salsa, salads, or sandwiches, or add it to onion tarts, casseroles, or kebabs. The plants produce 3 to 4-inch bulbs. Onions needs full sunlight and begin to produce bulbs when day length reaches 10 to 12 hours. In regions with mild winters, plant in the fall and harvest in the spring. In colder climates, plant in the spring. Keep bulbs cool and dry until you can plant, up to 3 weeks. Space the plants 6 inches apart and grow in well-drained, rich soil. The tops reach 12 to 18 inches tall, and bulbs mature in 110 to 120 days. With proper conditions, White Bermuda Onions store well for about 2 months after harvest. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry to the touch, and feed it regularly with Miracle-Gro® plant food. Bonnie Plants® easy-to-grow varieties create culinary inspiration, adding delicious flavors, textures, and colors to your garden-to-table meals.

San Marzano Tomato (2 Pack)

Heirloom. Discover why gourmet and home chefs around the world seek out San Marzano tomatoes. These teardrop-shaped, meaty, plum-type tomatoes are famous for their sweet, complex flavor that creates a fabulous pasta sauce. Choose San Marzano tomatoes if you like to can whole tomatoes, whip up homemade tomato sauce, or freeze slow-roasted tomatoes. These tomatoes also taste great chopped into salads and sliced onto sandwiches. These vigorous indeterminate tomatoes produce heavy fruit loads and need sturdy, tall stakes or cages. Expect vines to bear fruit right up to frost. Tuck one plant into a 10-gallon container or half whiskey barrel. San Marzano tomatoes resistant to verticillium wilt and fusarium wilt races 1 and 2.

Woodstock Hyloom Tomato (2 Pack)

If you love the delicious flavor and pretty colors of heirloom tomatoes, you'll adore the improved yield and disease-resistance of Bonnie Plants® Woodstock Hyloom Tomato in your garden. A hybrid variety with the fabulous flavor of heirloom tomatoes, disease-resistant Woodstock Hyloom Tomato produces big yields of gorgeous green and pink bicolor fruit, perfect for your favorite recipes, like tomato pie, salsa, salads, BLTs, bruschetta, kebabs, and caprese salad. Green tomatoes may seem tricky to harvest--but not Woodstock: it's ripe and ready to pick when the fruit shows a pink blush on the bottom. Woodstock Hyloom Tomato prefers full sun and warm temperatures for best performance. Plant outside in spring after danger of frost has passed, spacing plants 36 inches apart. The plant grows beautifully in large containers, raised beds, or in-ground gardens. The indeterminate vine grows 4 to 6 feet tall, so add a strong cage or stake when planting. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry to the touch, and feed it regularly with Miracle-Gro® plant food. Woodstock Hyloom Tomato resists Alternaria Stem Canker (AS), Fusarium Wilt (F), and Late Blight (LB). The fruit matures 75 day after planting. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry to the touch, and feed it regularly with Miracle-Gro® plant food. Bonnie Plants® easy-to-grow varieties create culinary inspiration, adding delicious flavors, textures, and colors to your garden-to-table meals.

Epazote (2 Pack)

If you're looking for the perfect multipurpose herb to add to your garden, you'll love Bonnie Plants® Epazote. An easy-to-grow herb that flavors many Latin-inspired recipes. The heat-tolerant plant produces small, pale-green flowers that attract pollinators to your garden. Plant Epazote in full to part-sun in well-draining soil. It grows beautifully in raised beds and in-ground gardens. Epazote grows 24 to 48 inches tall and is ready for immediate harvest. Use the herb fresh or preserve it by drying. Epazote is a perennial in USDA zones 8 to 10; grow as an annual in cooler climates. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry to the touch and feed it regularly with Miracle-Gro® plant food. Bonnie Plants® easy-to-grow varieties create culinary inspiration, adding delicious flavors, textures, and colors to your garden-to-table meals.

Organic Roma Tomato (2 Pack)

Prized for its use in tomato paste and sauces, Roma produces a large harvest of thick-walled, meaty, bright red, egg-shaped tomatoes about 3 Inches Long and with few seeds. This tomato is not juicy. This is not a slicing tomato. Instead, the flesh is thick and drier so that it will cook down into a thick sauce. Cooking intensifies flavor, too. If you can tomatoes, make your own spaghetti sauce, or like to chop a tomato into an omelet, this is a great choice. It's not too juicy in the pan compared to slicing tomatoes. The fruit freezes well for later cooking, too. The compact, determinate vines are resistant to verticillium wilt (V) and fusarium wilt (F) and widely adapted throughout the US.

Cajun Bell Pepper (2 Pack)

True to its name, Cajun Belle pepper is an awesome pepper because it gives you all the flavor of a sweet pepper combined with a mild but spicy heat that adds zip to any dish. This 2010 All America winner is just plain cute, too. We love the way the little peppers ripen from lime green to orange to red. You can eat them at any stage, but the longer they stay on the plant, the warmer they get. Plants are robust and disease tolerant yet relatively small, growing about 2 feet tall by 2 feet wide. They're ideal for small gardens or containers. Each fruit is 2 to 3 Inches Long, with 3 to 4 lobes to make a small, thin walled blocky miniature pepper. Allowed to remain on the plant to maturity, they turn glossy red and grow increasingly flavorful. Plants in our Alabama test garden (where the long harvest season lasts from May through October) easily yield more than 150 peppers each. Of course, yield in your garden will depend on care and the length of your warm growing season.

Georgia Sweet Onion (2 Pack)

If you love sweet Vidalia® onions, now you can grow your own with Bonnie Plants® Georgia Sweet Onions Yellow Granex Hybrid. Each bunch contains 30 to 40 plants, perfect for filling your pantry with homegrown onions. While only onions grown in a certain part of Georgia can use the brand name, Georgia Sweet is the same delicious onion that you can grow at home. An easy-to-grow addition to your garden, the short-day variety performs beautifully in southern regions. You'll love the flavor of Georgia Sweet, whether you add it to a burger, slice it for salad, bake it in a tart, or use it for French onion soup. The plants produce 3-inch bulbs: perfect to eat like an apple! Onion plants need full sunlight to produce bulbs. Keep bulbs cool and dry until you can plant, up to 3 weeks. Separate the onions from the bunch, spacing the plants 6 inches apart, and grow in well-drained, rich soil in raised beds or in-ground gardens. The tops reach 12 to 18 inches tall, and bulbs mature in 110 to 120 days. With proper conditions, Georgia Sweet Onions store well for about 1 to 2 months after harvest. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry to the touch, and feed it regularly with Miracle-Gro® plant food. Bonnie Plants® easy-to-grow varieties create culinary inspiration, adding delicious flavors, textures, and colors to your garden-to-table meals.

French Tarragon (2 Pack)

A chef’s best friend and a must for every herb garden, Bonnie Plants® French Tarragon turns ordinary main dishes into masterpieces. The unassuming herb may not steal the show in your herb garden, but its sweet anise flavor turns meat and vegetables into extraordinary culinary treats. One of the ingredients of the classic herb blends Fines Herbes, Herbes de Provence, and Bouquet Garni, this fragrant, flavorful herb tastes delicious topping salads and soups, or use it to create delicious seafood or poultry dishes. It adds the perfect flavor to potato salad, too. Plus, it's a key ingredient for creating Sauce Béarnaise. Add a pot of French tarragon just outside the kitchen for convenient meal-time harvest, or plant it in raised beds or in-ground herb gardens near more architectural plants, like lemongrass or rosemary. While delicious used fresh in recipes, French tarragon also dries well to preserve for use in winter. A heat-tolerant, cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant herb, French tarragon prefers full sun and well-drained soil. It grows 24 to 36 inches tall and is a perennial in USDA zones 3 to 8. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry to the touch, and feed it regularly with Miracle-Gro® Plant Food. With more than 100 years of experience, Bonnie Plants® offers high-quality live plant varieties designed for your gardening success.

Aspabroc Baby Broccoli (2 Pack)

Bonnie Plants® brings you culinary inspiration and delicious flavors and textures to create mouthwatering meals made from ingredients you grow yourself. A delicious cross between broccoli and Chinese broccoli, this low-key sweet, earthy vegetable tastes great—and delivers a satisfying crunch—when eaten raw, and offers a milder, sweeter flavor when you steam, roast, or grill it. Bonnie Plants® Aspabroc Baby Broccoli is a delicious vegetable that can elevate any meal. No matter how you prepare it, you can enjoy the whole vegetable, stems and all. Bonnie Plants® Aspabroc Baby Broccoli is a compact plant that grows well in raised beds and in-ground gardens where it can enjoy part to full sun. Give it 24 to 30 inches of space and expect it to grow 24 to 36 inches high when you plant it in rich, well-draining soil and water when the first couple inches of soil feel dry to the touch. Aspabroc baby broccoli will mature about 30 to 40 days after you plant it. For more than 100 years, Bonnie Plants® has been delivering outstanding live plant varieties to help you grow success in your garden.

Sunset Torch Tomato (2 Pack)

Enjoy delicious tomatoes that look lovely on the plate--and in the garden--when you grow Bonnie Plants® Sunset Torch Tomato. Beautiful, petite, plum-shaped fruit start off deep-orange at the stem, transitioning to golden yellow with heavy striping and a rose blush. Not only does it look lovely, Sunset Torch Tomato tastes great, with a sweet, mild, fruity flavor. The highly-productive, disease-resistant vines can produce hundreds of tomatoes, perfect for salads, snacking, kabobs, or cocktails. The indeterminate vine grows 5 to 6 feet tall, so add a strong cage or stake when planting. Plant outside after danger of frost has passed, spacing plants 36 inches apart. Sunset Torch Tomato prefers full sun and rich, well-drained soil. Resists fusarium wilt, tomato mosaic virus, verticillium wilt, tomato spotted wilt virus, and tomato yellow leaf curl virus. Matures in 75 days. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry to the touch and feed it regularly with Miracle-Gro® All-Purpose Plant Food. Bonnie Plants® easy-to-grow varieties create culinary inspiration, adding delicious flavors, textures, and colors to your garden-to-table meals. With more than 100 years of experience, Bonnie Plants® offers high-quality live plant varieties designed for your gardening success.

2.32 qt. Sweet Mint

Mint is one of the easiest herbs to grow. This one has extra large leaves that most cooks really like for chopping into sauces and drinks. Our sweet mint is grown from cuttings of a variety that comes to us from Israel, where mint is used in many dishes, from lamb to yogurt sauce. We think you'll like the rich spearmint flavor of this variety. This plant can go a little crazy, though, so be careful or it can spread farther than you might like. For this reason many people grow it in a pot. The long stems can even be trained on a little wire trellis, especially in spots where a a bit of shade causes it to stretch. Keep pinched to encourage tender new leaves.

Bok Choy (2 Pack)

For the perfect multipurpose ingredient in your favorite recipes, add Bonnie Plants® Bok Choy to your garden. This easy-to-grow, cool-season, mild Asian green tastes terrific in your favorite garden-to-table meals. When kissed by frost, Bok Choy develops a sweeter flavor, great for stir-fries, soups, stews, and salads, or braise, grill, or sauté it for a delicious side dish. You can even snack on the crunchy stems like celery! Ideal for spring and fall gardens, Bok Choy looks lovely in landscapes and container gardens, producing a pretty, vase-shaped plant. Use it as a "thriller" in pots surrounded with edible pansies. Plant Bok Choy in full to part-sun in well-draining soil. Space plants 8 to 10 inches apart. Bok Choy grows beautifully in containers, raised beds, and in-ground gardens. Bok Choy grows 12 to 24 inches tall and is ready to harvest in 40 to 60 days. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry to the touch, and feed it regularly with Miracle-Gro® plant food. Bonnie Plants® easy-to-grow varieties create culinary inspiration, adding delicious flavors, textures, and colors to your garden-to-table meals.

Coolapeño Heatless Jalapeño Pepper (2 Pack)

Hybrid. If you love nachos and poppers but aren’t quite so fond of the heat of traditional jalapeños, Coolapeño Heatless Jalapeño is for you! These peppers have all the delicious jalapeño flavor without the spiciness. Use them to make yummy salsa — as well as those poppers and nachos — for sensitive palates. Peppers ripen green to red, becoming sweeter as they ripen.

Organic Sweet Banana Pepper (2 Pack)

Named for its banana-like shape, this variety bears sweet, mild banana peppers that mature from yellow, to orange, and then to crimson red. Plants fruit prolifically, easily producing up to 25 to 30 pods per plant. Banana peppers are great for frying and pickling, and are an excellent choice for making pepper rings for sandwiches. Great for containers.

America Grows Garden Kit with Live Pepper & Herb Plants by Bonnie Plants – Complete Patio Container Garden with 5 Gallon Grow Bag, Premium Soil & Miracle-Gro Pour & Feed Singles

Celebrate the season by growing something together. The Inspired to Gro™ America Grows Garden is a complete patio garden kit created to make growing fresh food at home simple, successful, and rewarding. Designed in partnership with three trusted gardening leaders—Miracle-Gro, Bonnie Plants, and Gardenuity—this ready-to-grow garden includes everything you need to plant, grow, and harvest with confidence. Unlike traditional garden kits that start with seeds, the America Grows Garden includes fully rooted live plants selected for seasonal success, so you can start growing the day it arrives. Each kit includes a live pepper plant paired with three fresh herb plants, premium growing media, plant nutrition from Miracle-Gro, and expert Grow Pro® guidance to support you every step of the way. Designed for patios, porches, balconies, and outdoor spaces of all sizes, this reusable grow bag garden makes it easy to grow fresh ingredients for summer meals, backyard gatherings, and everyday cooking. Whether you’re planting your first garden or adding something new to your season, the America Grows Garden makes gardening feel easy, approachable, and enjoyable.No guesswork. No experience required. Just everything you need to grow fresh peppers and herbs this season. Plant together. Grow together. Celebrate together.

Jalapeño Pepper Plugs (3 Pack)

Consider them garnish or gourmet, jalapeno peppers are practically a staple in the modern kitchen, and Bonnie Plants® Jalapeno Pepper Plugs help keep your kitchen stocked. A plant plug is a seedling that was started and grown in an individual cell filled with potting soil. These strong, healthy, young plants get your garden growing fast: they're ready to plant in pots, raised beds, or in-ground gardens as soon as all danger of frost has passed. You'll enjoy nurturing your garden from its infancy, without waiting anxiously for seeds to germinate. Instead, you'll receive three young jalapeno pepper plants, ready to get your garden season off to a great start! If you're looking to grow a large garden to feed a big family or want to preserve food for a taste of summer during chilly winter days, a garden filled with plugs is a cost-effective choice. Plus, you'll better control what goes into and onto your plants--raising young plants lets you choose how they'll grow. Caring for young plants that turn into garden-to-table meals provides a great feeling of satisfaction. With Bonnie Plants® Jalapeno Pepper Plugs, you can turn up the flavor—and the heat—on countless recipes, from snacks and appetizers, to main courses, cocktails, and even desserts. These fast-growing, thick-walled, 3-inch peppers are deep green, and mature to red. Given plenty of water and harvested early, your peppers will be milder than peppers that stay on the plant longer or those that grow under stressful conditions. Bonnie Plants® Jalapeno Pepper Plugs grow into large plants that produce a great harvest. Check out our "How to Grow and Care for Plugs" <https://bonnieplants.com/blogs/how-to-grow/how-to-grow-and-care-for-plugs> article in our Growing Guides for tips to give your plugs a great start.

Sweet Red Onion (2 Pack)

Relish delicious flavor and beautiful color in your favorite garden-to-table meals when your grow Bonnie Plants® Sweet Red Onions in your garden. Each bunch contains 30 to 40 plants, perfect for filling your pantry with homegrown onions. This globe-shaped red onion with sweet, mild flavor tastes delicious fresh in salads or sliced to top a burger, roasted with meats, grilled on kebabs, or diced for salsa. The easy-to-grow plant produces medium-to-large, pretty red bulbs that add vibrant color to recipes. Onions need full sunlight to produce bulbs. This short-day variety means that it's an ideal onion to plant in fall in southern climates for harvest in late spring. Keep bulbs cool and dry until you can plant, up to 3 weeks. Separate onion plants from the bunch, spacing them 6 inches apart, and grow in well-drained, nutrient-rich soil. Onions grow well in raised beds or in-ground gardens. The tops reach 12 to 18 inches tall, and bulbs mature in 100 to 110 days. With proper conditions, Sweet Red Onions store well for about 3+ months after harvest. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry to the touch, and feed it regularly with Miracle-Gro® plant food. Bonnie Plants® easy-to-grow varieties create culinary inspiration, adding delicious flavors, textures, and colors to your garden-to-table meals.

2.32 qt. Carolina Reaper Pepper

Demand for the Carolina Reaper plant has been as smokin' hot as the pepper itself! Do you dare to grow the world’s hottest pepper? Get your milk-chaser ready, because Carolina Reaper packs a punch with an off-the-chart Scoville rating of 1,569,300, these devilish red fruits aren’t for wimps. Easy to grow, the infamous pepper possesses a fruity and sweet aroma, with an undertone of chocolate and cherry flavors. It may be hot, but it’s packed with flavor, too. A little goes a long way—use part of a pod to flavor an entire pot of chili or dehydrate and grind the peppers to make ultra-hot pepper powder. Just be sure to wear gloves when handling and add a mask when processing.

Organic Serrano Pepper (2 Pack)

This variety is a vigorous bearer of hot, pungent, candle-shaped fruits that mature from green to bright red. Plants do well in most climates and are especially well adapted to hot, humid areas. This pepper is growing in popularity for pickling and salsa, and is the pepper of choice for making pico de gallo.

Bonnie Plants® Light Blue Waxed Minerva Amaryllis Bulb

Brighten your home this holiday season with Bonnie Plants Amaryllis Bulbs! Known for producing multiple vibrant flowers, it’s an ideal low-maintenance option that requires no water. Amaryllis bulbs grow between 21 and 28 days, starting slow in early season and speeding up as the season progresses—just in time for a beautiful holiday display. Reaching heights of 16" to 28", depending on light levels, it’s a festive way to add natural beauty to your space without any fragrance. 

Butternut Squash (In Store Only)

Heirloom. This variety, Waltham Butternut, has a hard, yellow to tan exterior but delicious sweet, orange flesh inside. Exceptional quality, no stringiness. This long-lasting squash stores all winter. Try it steamed, boiled or baked. Extremely rich in vitamin A. This is the most common winter squash used to make the popular, creamy soup by the same name, and it is a popular baking squash. A 1970 All-America Selections winner.

1-pack starter plant

19.3 fl oz pot volume

AAS winner

Acorn Honey Bear Squash (In Store Only)

A "winter squash" known for its sweet flavor and resistance to powdery mildew. Delicious when halved and baked with butter and maple syrup, or steamed. Outstanding source of fiber and vitamins C and B. Hard outer shell. Bright yellow to orange flesh inside.

1-pack starter plant

19.3 fl oz pot volume

AAS winner