[CH] chiles on two continents
margaret lauterbach (melauter@earthlink.net)
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:34:50 -0700
First of all, the Chile Pepper Institute has their 2010 catalog up,
and as promised, they have Heritage Big Jims as well as NuMex
Heritage 6-4s, grown out from seeds archived many years ago, so they
have the flavor and pungency of the peppers old guys remember. Tough
Love probably has these seeds too.
Secondly, Grist of Jan. 15 carried a story by Gary Nabhan,
reporting drought in the Middle East is diminishing the supply of
peppers such as Urfa and Maras peppers from Turkey, and the Halaby
peppers in Syria. The Chile Woman has Aleppo peppers now from
Syria. Does anyone know a seed supplier of Halaby, Maras or
Urfa? TIA, Margaret L