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SWEET PEPPERS
Banana Bill A sweet banana pepper with long, tapered fruits, 6" long
by 1" across at the top, that are bright and attractive with light yellow
color that matures to red. Thick-walled and excellent flavor that's
especially sweet at the red stage. High-yielding plants are disease
resistant. 65 days.
Blushing Beauty describes the color changes of this productive sweet
bell pepper that changes color like fall maple leaves. On bushy compact
plants, peppers gracefully blush from ivory to pink and red as they mature.
The thick walled peppers are sweet at any color and are prized for stuffing
and easy to cut for fresh salads. 'Blushing Beauty' peppers can be harvested
in about 72-75 days from transplanting.
California Wonder
High yields and extra-large fruit have made this
probably the most popular open-pollinated bell pepper for market and home
gardeners alike. Dark green peppers are mostly 4-lobed and blocky, about 4
1/2 inches long and 4 inches wide, with crisp, thick walls and sweet taste.
Fruit eventually ripens to bright red. Tall plants produce an abundance of
peppers over a very long season. 75 days.
Chinese Giant
Old-fashioned bell pepper is huge - 5 to 6 inches deep
and wide, but grows on a compact, bushy plant. When this variety is fully
ripened, it turns bright red and is very sweet. Thick-walled, blocky fruit
is absolutely perfect for making stuffed peppers. Early maturity and long
harvests. 75 days
Cubanelle
Yellow-green, frying type pepper. Six inch long fruits
have thin walls and waxy flesh. Excellent split and fried in olive oil. 65
days.
Flavorburst
70 to 75. An entirely new flavor. A thick-walled,
juicy, succulent bell pepper, it is infused with the tart-sweet taste of
lemon! These fruits measure about 4 inches long and nearly as wide, with 4
thick lobes and glossy skin that turns from lime-green to deep gold. Even if
you pick them green, the flavor is fully developed -- the peppery bite you
expect is overlaid with a surge of pure citrus that is zesty and refreshing!
Flavorburst is good for cooking (especially stuffing, thanks to its thick
walls), the best flavor is brought out when it is eaten fresh. The zing of
lemon is so distinctive and refreshing that a single bite will bring you up
short! Add it to salads for a completely different flavor, or slice it into
rings and serve with or without dip as an appetizer.
Giant Marconi Hybrid
2001 All-America Selections Winner. This is one of the biggest
Italian-type sweet peppers that you’ll find anywhere. Peppers turn from
green to red, and at 8" long with a lobed tip. They are sweetest when red
and are good for salads, but really are outstanding when grilled or roasted.
63 days.
Golden Calwonder
73 days. Plant
produces good yields of 5" long by 4" wide golden yellow bell peppers.
Peppers have thick walls and turn from green to golden yellow when mature.
Plant produces peppers continuously all season long. Excellent for salads
and stuffing.
Golden Marconi 80 days. A late, Italian pepper with beautiful, big,
yellow, 7", tapering fruit, very sweet, great for frying or fresh. This
wonderful heirloom is delicious and mild.
Golden Summer
67 days A
heavy yielder of beautiful golden-yellow four lobed, blocky fruits. They
have an outstanding sweet, mild flavor. Excellent stuffed or added to
salads.
Ivory
Plant produces
good yields of 4" long by 2 ½" wide sweet bell peppers. Peppers turn from a
ivory white to yellow when mature. The first true ivory white pepper.
Suitable for home garden and market growers. 68 days
Lilac
Mild tasting 4 lobed fruits that change from ivory to purple
to red with an amazing lilac hue in between. Brightens up a salad and tastes
great. 72 days.
Miniature Red Bell 55 days. This impressive miniature bell really
pumps out the peppers! Expect up to 75 peppers per plant. The deep red 3
lobed fruit are 2 1/2 inches wide by 1 1/4 inches long. Very sweet, and
excellent on veggie platters, in salads, stuffed, or cored and eaten whole.
Peppers ripen from green to red.
Pritavit Hybrid
Beautiful crimson red peppers are deliciously sweet with a very thick-walled
crisp flesh. Deeply-ribbed, bell-shaped fruit is about 2 1/2 in. tall and 4
in. wide with a slightly flattened shape. This kind of pepper is known as a
topepo type in Italy, where it is enjoyed for its rich sweet flavor and
juicy red flesh. These are wonderful cut up in salads, stuffed with your
favorite filling, or used in any dish that calls for sweet red pepper.
Heavy-yielding plants mature early and are easy to grow. 75 to 80 days until
red.
Purple Beauty
Blocky, thick-walled, dark purple bells set well not only in the crown, but
also as limb set. Compact plants offer good foliage cover for the fruit.
Beautiful in salads as well as stuffed. 70 days.
Super Red Pimento
Earlier, larger, and more disease resistant than the
original Pimento. Fruit is 5-3/4 inches wide and 3-1/4 inches deep with
extra thick, sweet flesh that turns from green to red. 70 days.
Sweet Banana
Profuse harvests of 5-1/2 to 6 inch long, tapered
peppers that are wonderful fried or cut up into salads. Light green at
first, they turn yellow and orange, and finally ripen to red. Compact
plants. 72 days.
Valencia The first rich
orange pepper, ideal for gourmet and specialty produce trades. Blocky fruits
mature to a rich orange, about 4-1/2" across. 72 days
HOT PEPPERS
Anaheim This moderately
pungent fruit is deep green, but turns red at full maturity. Very smooth
peppers are 7-1/2" long and 2" wide and borne on tall, productive plants
that offer good foliage cover for the fruit. Excellent for canning, freezing
or drying. 75 days.
Ancho 101 Known to some
as Poblano in its fresh form, and Ancho when dried. This mildly pungent
pepper is sought after especially for drying because of its consistent fruit
shape. Invaluable for rajas and rellenos. Ancho produces high quality, dark
green to red, large-sized fruit averaging 5-6 inches long. 80 days
Big Chile
Big doesn't begin to describe this pepper, GIANT does!
Anaheim chile type pepper is noted for its beautiful fruit. Wonderful
tasting fruits have very low pungency. Excellent for roasting, broiling or
dicing. Very compact plant habit. 68 days.
Bulgarian Carrot
Vibrant orange, 2-3 in. carrot-shaped fruit satisfies
the chile aficionado with consistent heat and fine flavor. Extremely
productive variety with dense foliage to protect the fruit from sun scald.
Heirloom 80 days.
Chile de Arbol
are narrow, curved chiles that start out green and mature to bright red.
This is very hot, and related to cayenne pepper. Be careful during
preparation. Arbol chiles are also the ones that are dried after turning red
and used in many holiday wreaths. 80 days.
Fish
55 days. Beautiful
African American heirloom form Maryland with white and green mottled leaves.
Great for the edible landscape-great heat tolerance. Very hot, used
traditionally in shellfish and fish cookery, also good to dry and crush,
some of the 2 inch long fruits have variegated colors.
Garden Salsa Hybrid produces smooth, 7 to 8 in. fruits with medium
heat, great flavor. Disease resistant plants produce big yields. 73 days
Haberno Super-Hot! The
average 2 by 1 1/4" very wrinkled fruits ripen from dark green to salmon
orange. The extremely pungent Habanero may be used fresh or dry. Key
ingredient in Jamaican "jerk" sauces. 75 days green, 90 days red-ripe
Hole Mole
These gourmet quality, chocolate brown fruits are
bright green at early maturity, then darken to warm brown over the next two
weeks. A distinctive but not overly spicy pepper, used as a staple in
Mexico's famous Mole' sauce and many other dishes. Crunchy fruits can reach
7 to 9" in length and 1-1/2" in width. Sturdy 3 foot plants produce multiple
harvests. Early crops are most often sliced for toppings and baking, while
the dark brown, fully mature fruits can be dried and ground. 85 days
Hot Banana (Hungarian
Yellow Wax). Spicy, fairly hot banana-shaped fruits, 6-8" long and 2"
across. Matures from light yellow to bright red. 67 days
Jalapeno Fiery,
thick-walled peppers grow 3" long and 1-1/2" wide, with rounded tips. Dark
green at first, then turning red. Good for fresh use or pickling; famous for
nachos and other Tex-Mex dishes. 75 days.
Kung Pao Hybrid
Oriental hot pepper is just right for making Kung Pao
Chicken or other Asian stir-fried dishes. The tall plants are quite a sight
when they become absolutely loaded with 4.5" long, slightly curved skinny
peppers that mature from green to a brilliant red. They are thin-walled for
easy drying, or may be used fresh for adding inviting flavor to a dish. 85
days.
Large Red Cherry Hot
Hot cherry pepper is round and matures from green to
bright red. Popular for pickling and preserving. May also be stuffed with
cheese and used as a popper.
Long Red Slim Cayenne
Bountiful harvest of pencil-shaped fruits that are 5
inches long and 1/2 inch thick, but often curled and twisted. Flavor is red
hot and best used in very hot dishes. Easily dried. 75 days.
Mexibell
This unique hybrid pepper combines the characteristics of bell and hot
peppers to produce a medium hot bell. Mexibell bears large, flat, wide, bell
shaped peppers that mature from green to red. Remove the seed core and ribs
for milder taste. An All America winner, it grows well throughout the
country. 75 days
Mirasol The Spanish name
of this pepper means 'looking at the sun,' for the way the pods are held
erect on the plant. Abundant crops of 3 to 5-inch thin-skinned red peppers
are conical in shape and medium hot. Unique flavor with a hint of
fruitiness. 100 days.
NuMex Big Jim
The largest of New Mexican
varieties, this pepper has pods up to 12 inches long that weigh as much as 4
ounces. Their size makes them a favorite for chile rellenos. Medium hot
pungency. As an advantage, plants are able to set fruit under hot, dry
conditions. 80 days.
NuMex Joe E. Parker
This is a very productive version of NuMex 6-4 that
offers more uniform peppers. 6 to 7-inch thick-fleshed peppers turn from
green to red and are relatively mild to medium in flavor. Ripens earlier
than most other peppers of its type. 65 days.
NuMex Twilight Plant produces good yields of ¾" long by ½" wide hot
peppers. Peppers grow upright in clusters, are very hot, and turn from
purple, to yellow, to orange, to red when mature. Plant has green stems,
green leaves, and white flowers. Suitable for growing in pots or containers.
85 days
Peter Pepper
Named for its similarity in appearance to an
anatomical part. Not for the prudish. Medium hot and good tasting (great for
spicing up salsa). The plants can reach two feet and produce good amounts of
little conversation starters. The fruit can be used green but mature to a
beautiful red and can be dried and ground for chili powder. 85-90 days
Pepperoncini
4 inch long, slightly wrinkled peppers taper to a
blunt, lobed end and are very popular for pickling. They have a mildly hot
but exciting flavor and are commonly jarred for use in Greek salads and
salad bars. Expect an abundant harvest. 62 days.
Poblano
See Ancho 101
Sahuaro Hybrid
This large green chile pepper is a more vigorous
version of Big Chile II and is the new generation of this popular type of
pepper. Stronger, disease-resistant plants yield big and early harvests of
huge chiles that can become 9 inches long. On average, pungency is a mild
500 Scoville Units. These peppers are great for roasting or used fresh in
all your favorite salsas and spicy dishes. 68 days.
Super Chili Hybrid
ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS WINNER for 1988. The first
hybrid chili pepper bred for increased yields and ornamental appeal. 2-1/2
inch cone shaped peppers have a thin, hot flesh that changes from green to
orange to red. Borne upright on the semi-compact plant. Use fresh or dried
in peppery ethnic dishes. 75 days.
Thai Hot
Extremely hot variety originally from Thailand. Plants become covered
with 1-1/2 inch long peppers that are green at first but ripen to red. Both
colors appear on the plant at the same time making this variety ornamental
as well as edible. Thin fleshed peppers are used especially in Oriental
dishes. 90 days.
ORNAMENTAL PEPPERS
Explosive Ember A
jazzy ornamental pepper with purple foliage and purple fruit maturing to
brilliant red, a lovely colour combination of the peppers to the foliage.
Approx 1" peppers plant height 10-14 inches spread approx 10 inches
Lila-Naranja Pot and patio ornamental pepper, Compact and well
branched plant-habit , Best for 4-5" pot, Long lasting colour display, Great
shelf-life in pot or as container plant, Non-pungent fruits
Shu
This
ornamental pepper is just for fun, and I predict you won't be able to resist
potting up a few in your best containers as well as edging the border or
other garden accent with a long line of them! A dwarf plant less than a foot
tall and even more narrow, it offers brightly variegated foliage and
charming peppers that turn colors as they ripen, for an ever-changing
display that lasts for many weeks! Shu is a compact, upright plant with
cream-splashed leaves that look showy from spring right up to frost. In
summer it covers itself with 1- to 1 1/2-inch peppers that begin white, then
turn all shades of yellow and gold before finally ripening to a deep, rich
red. Though perfectly edible, they have little flavor and are best grown
just for their beauty.
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