Stocky Red Roaster Italian (Sweet) Pepper
SKU:
$3.50
$3.50
per item
An easy to grow, easy-to-cook pepper with great juicy-sweet Italian flavor. This pepper has taken the honors for earliness, yield, looks, and flavor in trials all over the country. It has meaty thick walls and straight, smooth sides for even roasting. Few seeds. And early too. What more could anyone ask? A higher-yielding sister to Early Perfect Italian, which it replaces. OSSI-pledged open source variety bred by Frank Morton, who grew our seed. A non-hybrid pepper with all the features that the hybrids boast about. 80 days red-ripe. 15 seeds
The Open Source Seed Initiative exists so that breeders who originate new varieties can protect them from exploitation and patenting by corporations. It means that the breeder has freely given up their patent rights in order to keep the variety in the public domain forever. The OSSI pledge reads: "You have the freedom to use these OSSI-pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others' use of these seeds or their derivatives, by patents or other means, and to include this pledge in any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives."