I would love to add this wonderful tomato to my collection. I have black krim and white queen heirloom tomato seeds, wando peas, and dragons tongue garden bean seed for trade.

Thank you to the people who offered and sent me Marianna's peace. Happy Spring

I'm looking for either bell peppers or sweet peppers. I never really liked them but a friend of mine bought a package from costco and told me to try them raw. I was like really? So I tried it and they tasted great. Sweet and with the bell pepper taste so I want to try my hand at growing some :) I bought 2 sweet peppers from Home depot. Does anyone know if I can save seeds from those plants? Email me at splitsec002@hotmail.com so we can do a trade or if you don't have what I'm looking for I can still send you some seeds.

So the down and dirty is not what you would think. The original Marianna's Peace is a smooth shouldered rampant indeterminate variety that ripens a deep pink color. It is very dense with what I call a 'bowling ball' feel when you pick one up. The fruit tends to ripen pink on the bottom but with green shoulders. Do not pick the fruit at the green shoulder stage, wait until the shoulders turn pink. It tends to develop radial cracks near the stem and can easily get fungal infections in the cracks. The true Marianna's Peace is a very stable variety that has very little variability indicating many years of growing un-crossed. The ribbed shouldered variety showed up in seed from Gary Ibsen in 2003 and 2004. They are also good flavored but not as good as the original, less likely to develop radial cracks, less dense, and ripen through the green shoulder stage faster. They are unstable with significant variation from seed to seed and year to year. The plants are vigorous and productive. Flavor is slightly less intense and sweetness is a bit lower. Gary grows his seed in a huge garden area that encourages crossing. The first Marianna's Peace seed that I got was from a trade with a wonderful lady out west who had bought them from Gary Ibsen in 2002. The seed I got produced 3 regular leaf and 5 potato leaf plants. This told me that the seed were crossed and possibly not true to type. I carefully planted and cared for the remaining 5 potato leaf plants. Of the 5, two turned out to be obvious crosses. I could tell by the way the plants grew. Three plants were true to type in all respects. Those three plants produced about 10,000 seed. One of them had runners 15 feet long and made well over 50 pounds of fruit. All in all, I prefer the original Marianna's Peace to the ribbed shoulder version. DarJones