06/18/2026
Persian leeks/ ‘Tareh,’ flowering in their second year of growth! Used for green parts, most commonly in the younger stage like tender chives.
Info on this variety, which we gratefully found through TrueLove seeds:
‘’I grew up pretty distant from my Iranian heritage and culture. I never really felt at home in myself, and I didn’t have a strong sense of who I was, partly because I didn’t know where I had come from. I only knew half of my story. Our father was in and out of my life, and I was just getting to know him a little more in the years leading up to his death in 2019. Right before he passed, he gave me one of the most beautiful and humble gifts I have ever received. He sent me a box of seed: Garlic, Persian Leek, and hollyhock from Iran that he’d been growing in his Colorado garden for 25 years. This seed was special. And they were a point of entry into our culture and heritage for me. Today, they’re a connection not only to my father, but to those who tended the seeds before him. They held the stories untold, and through them I had a point of connection – not only to resurrect the culture that I had been disconnected from, but to connect me to a community that I had never been a part of. And, they connect me to him.”
From Sasha Moghadam, who included a photo of her father, Jamshid Moghadam 1998, watering his garden, Glenwood Springs CO.
