Being my first year for saving seeds, I've been putting it off...and off...and off! Tonight, I finally sat down and did a couple of things. Acutally, I started to do a few tomatoes mid-summer but left them outside and the wind knocked them over.
An old neighbor fella gave me some peppers this week. He's not sure what they are but he got them from a lady in the county and saved seeds from them to grow. They little purple things, beautiful! There are a few orange and red ones that I'm figuring are part of the color progression to purple. I did some searching online to see what they might be but I'm not really sure. They're pretty similar to Purple Peruvians and, oh, I can't think of the name of the other now. Anyway, I'll have to take some pics of his plants and see if anyone knows what they are. They're hot but not terribly so.
I also saved some seeds from a tomato that's not available commercially, as far as I've know. I got them from a generous soul who helped get me started on OPs this year. She called them Mountain but they're not any of the Mountain varieties you see listed for sale anywhere. It's a beautiful plant and the tomato is very similar to Pruden's Purple, in my very limited OP experience. They average about a pound, I'd say. Very, very meaty. Basic tomato red in color. I'll have to dig up my notes on these, if they survived my last computer crash.
Now to just get the rest of the pepper and tomato varieties I want saved. The rest are all available commercially but who the heck wants to have to buy them each year? Besides, I need something for the upcoming seed swap, right? Now if I can only keep the cats from knocking them around the room until they dry....
An old neighbor fella gave me some peppers this week. He's not sure what they are but he got them from a lady in the county and saved seeds from them to grow. They little purple things, beautiful! There are a few orange and red ones that I'm figuring are part of the color progression to purple. I did some searching online to see what they might be but I'm not really sure. They're pretty similar to Purple Peruvians and, oh, I can't think of the name of the other now. Anyway, I'll have to take some pics of his plants and see if anyone knows what they are. They're hot but not terribly so.
I also saved some seeds from a tomato that's not available commercially, as far as I've know. I got them from a generous soul who helped get me started on OPs this year. She called them Mountain but they're not any of the Mountain varieties you see listed for sale anywhere. It's a beautiful plant and the tomato is very similar to Pruden's Purple, in my very limited OP experience. They average about a pound, I'd say. Very, very meaty. Basic tomato red in color. I'll have to dig up my notes on these, if they survived my last computer crash.
Now to just get the rest of the pepper and tomato varieties I want saved. The rest are all available commercially but who the heck wants to have to buy them each year? Besides, I need something for the upcoming seed swap, right? Now if I can only keep the cats from knocking them around the room until they dry....