About Burpee Home Gardens: Inspiring Gardening Confidence • Burpee Home Gardens is a new program of garden-ready vegetable and herb plants available nationally at retail garden centers in spring 2010.

• This new line of vegetable and herb plants represents a partnership between the first name in home gardening — W. Atlee Burpee & Co.— and a world leader in the horticultural industry — Ball Horticultural Co.— to provide gardeners with tried-and-true varieties and the information, ideas and inspiration for success.

• The Burpee Home Gardens™ program includes a wide selection of vegetable and herb varieties, including many Burpee exclusives. For more than 125 years, Burpee has been the most trusted gardening source in the United States.

• Burpee has gained a reputation for its popular vegetable and herb varieties. Now available in garden-ready plants, these varieties were bred to have benefits, such as the ability to mature faster, produce higher yields and be more disease-resistant, inspiring confidence in even the most novice gardener.

• Each plant comes with foolproof guidelines for selection and planting — including light needs, spacing, planting and care information – to take the guesswork out of home gardening. And Burpee supports its customers throughout the growing season with even more information, ideas and inspiration at the Burpee Home Gardens Web site (www.burpeehomegardens.com).

• Burpee Home Gardens is committed to helping generations of people realize the benefits of home gardening — to nourish their body and soul with healthy, homegrown foods. In spring 2009, Burpee Home Gardens planted its first community garden in Fort Worth, Texas. Based on the success of this garden and the increasing interest in healthy, homegrown vegetables and herbs, there will be more gardens, and nourished souls, in 2010.