Comments on: Free Seeds from Your Small Kitchen Garden

By: Daniel Gasteiger

Daniel Gasteiger — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:04:33 +0000

The tomatoes ripen to a deep red and are very tomatoey… no peppery flavor at all. Good luck with the chilies! Hottest ones I’ve grown are jalapenos–would be curious to hear your experiences with mouth-blistering chilies.

By: John Gardener

John Gardener — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:42:08 +0000

The tomatoes look really nice – are they still green when ripe and do they have a peppery after taste? I’m starting to sprout some of the hottest chillies where I bought their seeds online and am awaiting now with eager, glee and excitement but that neck pumpkin deserves a medal!

By: ron arnold

ron arnold — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:00:11 +0000

I would like to try out your seeds im going to start a garden and give this a try

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:40:04 +0000

I would love pumpkin seeds! I wanna grow them in time for halloween so that I might carve one into a carriage and then add wheels, a shaft and a breyer model horse, and then it will be driven my a model of grim reaper and its passenger will be a skeleton bride on the way to her wedding, the horse will have plumes on its bridle and spikes on its kness, and i will paint birthday candles and their holders silver and place them on top of pumpkin carriage and then light them! It will be the centre piece of my halloween party 2010!!!

By: Sven Wylde

Sven Wylde — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:48:23 +0000

Would like to grow all three, actually as part of a garden we have started to help developmentally disabled individuals learn vocational skills. Our programs called Independence Network. We will use produce for cooking classes and/or give it to food banks.

By: elena

elena — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:07:57 +0000

I would love to try the seeds,tomato first,but also pumpkin!

By: Belinda Green

Belinda Green — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:27:25 +0000

My whole family LOVE to eat squash, and I planted some last year, this year I am expanding my garden to twice the size so I can plant more of everything, I would like to grow enough squash for all my friends and family.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:01:09 +0000

Melanie: Those Super Italian Paste tomatoes look very similar to the ones I’ve grown. Two possibilities: 1. There is a chili-pepper-shaped tomato that some people call Super Italian Paste, others call German Tomato, and others call Andes. 2. There are several chili-pepper-shaped varieties.

I lean toward #2: there are several chili-pepper-shaped varieties. I’ve two reasons for this bias. The first is that the Super Italian Paste looks a bit different to me than the ones I’ve grown – the attached stems just don’t look the same, and the tomatoes’ shapes on average seem slightly different (but I could be wrong… I’d need to see whole plants for an honest comparison. The second reason for my bias is the evaluation of the Super Italian Paste on the site you identified: they say the tomato is productive but bland. I found the tomatoes to be very flavorful; good enough that I used a bunch in salads as well as in cooked sauces.

Several months ago I tracked down a variety called Andes at this address: Andes Tomato The one they show is a perfect match for my tomatoes, and the description also is a match: “Meaty with few seeds and rich flavor.”

Maybe Andes and Super Italian Paste are the same tomato, but if they are, someone’s taste buds are in serious disagreement.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:30:02 +0000

Thanks for the seeds! I am excited about growing the chili pepper shaped paste tomatoes. I found this image on Google: Paste Tomatoes Do you think this is them? Super Italian Paste? Thanks again.

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:53:21 +0000

hi i would like some seeds to get me back into gardening and to get the bugs and wildlife back into my garden thanks