These peppers don’t have any back story that I was able to uncover. Just a name without a description on the Seed Savers Exchange database. So, how did I discover Nepali Orange? I had seen some really interesting peppers shaped like an upside-down flower. They were called Nepalese Bell peppers. But the price for the […]
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Back Story As I began to wade (no, actually I probably dove right off the deep end) deeper and deeper into the world of heirloom tomatoes I checked out the book “Epic Tomatoes” from the library. Through its pages, I became enchanted with the unique attributes of heirlooms and the wide variety of color choices,
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Back Story Church is another variety that was part of the 2021 SSE adapt trials. I was able to find a little more info on this variety prior to planting the first seeds, namely that it was a pink tomato. Several smaller independent seed companies have since picked up this variety and have noted that
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Back story Now this is a variety for which, sadly, there is very little origin information available. I grew Smiley for the first time in 2021 as part of Seed Savers Exchange Adapt trials. You can read more about the Adapt trials in an interview I did with Out There Outdoors. As soon as I
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Back Story After a couple of years of gardening, my husband and I finally realized our top 3 gardening priorities (tomatoes, winter squash, and peppers) and realized we needed to be more strategic about our peppers in particular. It can be tricky to find a pepper that is happy in our cooler climate and shorter
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With all this talk of garden planning, we thought it’d be helpful to put all our favorite gardening resource in one place. This first article will cover our favorite seed sources. In a future article, we’ll compile all the other gardening resources from our favorite books and blogs to where to seed starting supplies. This
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In my post the other day about putting together a garden plan, I mentioned the garden scrapbook I usually keep with my garden plan, varieties I’m growing, and space for record keeping. In the beginning, I started putting together these journals mostly because it was fun, the plant pictures were pretty and it gave me
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Origin of the Cherokee Purple This variety rose to popularity after a friend and fellow gardener, JD Green, sent the seeds of a curious purple tomato to tomato man Craig LeHoullier in 1990. Green said the seeds were for a purple tomato given to his neighbor’s family by the Cherokee Indians, who had been growing
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If you’re new to gardening and just getting started, it can be overwhelming opening a seed catalog or staring at the homepage of a seed company’s website! What should you grow? What things are easy/hard to grow? How much space and time do you need for various crops, etc. Here are some tips to get
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For many in our area, growing peppers can be a great source of frustration. It takes forever for them to ripen, if they even ripen at all. And, even if you do get a few peppers to ripen, it’s just that: a few. Last year we grew peppers in the garden, but we grew even
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