Saturday Seed Stories

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 […]

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

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

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

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