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    New heirloom offerings for your garden.

    Feb 13, 2018 2 minutes

    ‘King Tut Purple’ Pea

    A rare garden pea with quite the story, the seeds of this cultivar are rumored to have been taken out of the tomb of famed Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, where they had been undisturbed for thousands of years, until Howard Carter found the tomb in 1922. From there, the legend goes, the

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