How We Classify Rare and Unique Seeds

In this blog, we will explain some ways how we determine rare and unique items we sell. They have to hit certain benchmarks we set to be classified as a rare or unique item. Now they must meet these benchmarks, that means it is an outstanding item. These tomatoes and beans sets itself apart from other items by flavor’s or not many sites or people have it or for sale.

How We Classify Rare Seeds We Sell

How we determine what is rare – We do not use the word rare too often when describing items I am selling unless it is deserving of it. A couple of benchmarks we set in place for using the word rare is there are not a lot of people or sites that have this item to trade or for sale in the world. One example of this is the Pink Flamingo Tomato. We used this an example because there are 3 different tomatoes out there called Pink Flamingo. This is why documentation of your grows and researching everything you grow is important. This tomato we got from an older gentleman and grew it we are the only one that has this for sale, so we consider this rare. Now, if you type in Pink Flamingo Tomato you will see a plum  one for sale and a dwarf version for sale. This one is neither, this is a beefsteak version. We had to keep researching to double-check my notes from when we purchased and grew, Then we found an informational site that matched all my notes for this tomato. When growing rare and obscure items can be fun and a pain lol. We consider an item rare if there are 4 sellers or fewer in the world. Lastly, do not give up researching items if you can not find what you grew matching what sites are selling. Keep researching, and you can also contact where you got your seeds from if they are still around or their family. That is what happened to us, the guy passed away and there was no record of it. Until we found this informational site that matched everything grew was correct and true.

How We Classify Unique Seeds We Sell

How we determine what is unique – We use a few benchmarks for being a Unique is flavor, looks, or just is different and stands out from all the rest of what I am growing. A great example of this is Schimmeg Stoo (striped Cavern) Tomato. This tomato is hollow inside like a pepper and has a great flavor and gorgeous striping. These were one of the first tomatoes we ever grew, and there are not too many hollow tomatoes you can grow out there. This is one of them that work excellent as a stuffing tomato for baking.

Crossing Of Rare And Unique Seed Categories

Crossing the both Rare and Unique Categories – Then We sell some seeds that hit benchmarks in both the unique and rare categories. When this happens, we normally just go with rare. A great example of this is Nonna (Grandmother) Agnes Blue Bean. This is a very rare bean, just because not many people have this or sell it. Also, it is Unique due to its color being blue, there are not too many blue beans out there for sale.

We hope this helps on how we use the words rare and unique in our descriptions. Thank you for reading this blog.

Happy Growing