How to Grow Peter Peppers
If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article may offend you. If, however, you enjoy a good laugh and can tolerate some earthy humor straight from the garden, read on.
For many years some of us have been cultivating a pepper known simply as the Peter Pepper. No fancy title. No one ever calls it anything else. Its appearance says it all. Like many heirloom plants, Peter Peppers seem to have survived by their seeds being passed around among gardeners. If Nature dealt you a bad hand and your crop failed, you had to start from scratch and inquire as to who might have seeds to share. You had to be discreet in your quest, as some gardeners, particularly those of excessively high moral standards and without much sense of humor, took a dim view of someone hunting Peter Pepper seeds. Now the seeds are available from the company listed at the end of this story and customers may place orders without having to upset any prissy people. (I hope the company is ready for the onslaught of orders that are bound to come in.)
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