“I am excited about the various white and red alpine strawberries we’ll be growing from seed. Super versatile and Not my GrandPaw’s cuke!” -William M., Talk of the South newsletter reader Remains apple crisp, dense, and never bitter. It looks like a potato when large and ripe. New favorite cucumber is an Indian variety, Poona Kheera, from the Rare Seeds catalog. My seed trays are already prepared for heirloom tomatoes, cabbage, and peppers. We grew our first sugar snaps last year, and it was the highlight of the garden box, whether we were eating them straight off the vine drizzling them with a little sesame seed oil, kosher salt, and a sprinkle of sesame seeds or sharing a bowlful with the neighbors. -David DiBenedetto, G&G editor in chief “I couldn’t be more delighted to put my sugar snap peas from John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds in the ground this week. We asked garden folks from around the South-plus a few readers in our Talk of the South newsletter-to share the seeds they’re ordering and ready to get in the ground. It’s a great way for him to get his seeds into the hands of the many.” His collection ends up in seed catalogs for the general public to grow and preserve.
“John will be digging deep into his freezers this winter and growing out seeds from his personal collection. His role model, Blackberry’s master gardener John Coykendall, has been doing that for decades. “If you want to grow heirloom varieties or save seed from your plants, you’ll need to order seeds from a catalog that specializes in heirloom varietals and grow your own,” says Michael Washburn, the garden manager at Blackberry Farm. “Hope keeps me going back to the garden, watching, studying, staying surprised.”Īs those seed catalogs hit mailboxes across the South, gardeners reconnect with the roots that link us to plant people through the ages. “I wish we could bottle and sell the hope and enthusiasm that comes with the newness of a fresh start every spring, a stack of seed catalogs, and the come-hither whispers of new plants at local garden shops,” says Mary Beth Shaddix, who with her husband, the nurseryman David Shaddix, grows a garden filled with both new and tried-and-true vegetable varieties each year in Shelby County, Alabama.
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