White House Garden Grows Bountiful Harvest at Burpee’s Fordhook Farm

Inspired by the First Family’s decision to plant a vegetable garden at The White House, W. Atlee Burpee & Co. decided to cultivate its own version at Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, PA, where the nation’s leading home gardening company trials most of the vegetables and flowers it sells, by catalog, at retail stores and on the Internet.

According to Mr. Ball, gardeners in the Northeast who planted heirloom tomatoes organically this year had a poor harvest — due to the long spell of gray, damp days that resulted in the well publicized Tomato Blight. Most heirlooms, he says, had no resistance to this blight. “There was little even the most experienced gardener could do to contain it.”

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