Peppers

Sweet | Hot

SWEET PEPPERS

Biscayne
Early, productive Cubanelle. Avg. 6" x 2 1/4", cylindrical, lobed-end fruits famous for frying. Unripe color is pale green.

Carmen
Early, productive, and delicious. Carmen has a lovely sweet taste for salads and roasting, especially when partially or fully red-ripe.

Cal Wonder
These peppers are thick-walled and blocky, about 4 inches tall and wide, with a crisp, mild flavor and terrific sweetness. They mature from green to red on the plant, and are ideal for stuffing, slicing into rings for dips and salad toppings, and chopping into crisp bite-sized nibbles.

Corno di Toro
The largest of the sweet stuffing peppers, it is first-rate, fresh or roasted. Fruits turn a stunning red or brilliant yellow when ripe and have a long, curved, tapering, non-bell shape.

Early Sunsation
The brightest yellow bell ever! Excellent for salads and stuffing..

Flamingo
Peppers turn from ivory yellow to orange red when mature. Its flavor is sweet and succulent, delicious in salads or very good for pickling.

Flavor Burst Yellow
A thick-walled, juicy, succulent bell pepper, it is infused with the tart-sweet taste of lemon! Flavorburst is good for cooking (especially stuffing, thanks to its thick walls). Add it to salads for a completely different flavor, or slice it into rings and serve with or without dip as an appetizer.

Golden California Wonder
Deep orange and thick-walled peppers are very similar to California Wonder. Beautiful, very sweet tasting peppers, perfect for enjoying fresh, cooked, or stuffed.

Gourmet
Early orange bell has thick juicy walls and fruity sweet taste. Medium-large, very blocky fruits are bigger than Corona and easier to grow under a wider variety of conditions.

JupitEr
Peppers have thick walls which makes it suitable for stuffing and freezing.

King Crimson
These early peppers are medium-sized and blocky with four lobes and thick walls.

Lipstick
Many consider Lipstick the most delicious sweet pepper. Heavy, attractive, dark green fruits are about 4" long and taper to a blunt point. They ripen to a glossy, rich red. Thick, juicy, and sweet for salads and cooking, and perfect for roasting and salsa.

Merlot
Rich gourmet pepper tht is crisp, thick walled and very sweet.

Mini Belle Mix
1 1/4" sweet, firm, thick and flavorful. Peppers start green and turn to yellows/red.

Mini Bell Series-Chocolate
2" gourmet miniature peppers, full flavor -
dark brown,burgundy.

Olympus
Olympus is a jumbo pepper. The Pepper averages 4" wide and are slightly elongated in a blocky-bell shape. Very similar to Orion in size and look.

Orange Blaze
Expect very sweet flavor and a full orange color.

Orion
Jumbo-sized peppers now available from organic seed. Widely adapted to warm locations in the North, and Florida fall and spring plantings.

Red Knight
King Arthur type with better disease resistance in a more compact, open plant. Get a jump on the season with a large, early, green-to-red pepper.

Revolution
This is an outstanding bell pepper variety. Extra-large blocky thick-walled peppers are four-lobed, about 4-1/2 inches long and wide, with firm, thick flesh turning from green to an eventual brilliant red.

Sweet Chocolate
Rich chocolate brown pepper. Remarkable earliness, heavy set, and tolerant of cool nights. Smooth, medium-small, tapered, "snub nose" (blunt end) bells with long fruit stems. Very mild flavor, medium thick flesh. The flesh under the skin is brick red.

Tawny Port
Beautiful, extra-large bell peppers ripen to a rich mahogany-colored brown that is just the color of port wine.

Tequilla Hybrid
A true purple sweet bell, deeper in color than the Lilac pepper.

Yankee Bell
Open Pollinated, medium size.

Yummy Mix
All are nearly seedless, crisp and very sweet. Great for snacking.

HOT PEPPERS

Ancho
Mexican Mole Sauce pepper. Most authentic tasting Ancho, black green to red.

Balada
Perfect for Oriental cuisine. Longer and far skinnier than North American varieties, with thin walls that dry quickly to seal in flavor and heat.

Black Hungarian
Long fiery fruits similar in shape to jalapenos, but shiny black ripening to red. Highly ornamental and useful in the kitchen. Good flavor, medium hot.

Bulgarian Carrot (Chile)
This very heavy-yielding, open-pollinated heirloom variety has a super-hot flavor you'll love!

Cherry Big Bomb
Hot cherry pepper that yields up to 50% more than the older, open-pollinated type. Thick-walled fruit is round to oval and matures from green to red. Pungency is medium-hot with about 20% less heat than a Jalapeno.

Cherry Peppino
Attractive hot cherry pepper.

Explosive Ember
Ornamental hot pepper.
The brightest edible ornamental yet.
Even the Leaves are Purple!

Filius Blue
A wonderful, ornamental pepper. These compact plants have
a wonderful bluish tinge and produce lovely, small violet-blue fruit that are quite hot.

Golden Cayenne
Beautiful lemon Cayenne color. Flavor is intense and hot.

Habanero Red
Hot pepper, bright red color.

Highlander
Traditional, semi-flattened, mostly two-lobed fruits avg. 7" x 2". .

Holy Mole
Distinctive nutty spicy flavor in mole sauce 7-9" long. Green/dark chocolate. MILD HEAT.

Hungarian Hot Wax
Dependably productive. Yellow hot pepper with 5 1/2" x 1 1/2" smooth, waxy fruits tapering to a point. Easy to stuff and to peel after roasting; thick-fleshed for frying. Its sunset-ripening peppers change from yellow to orange to red, and make the prettiest pickled peppers.

Hungarian Yellow Wax
The Hungarian wax is a large pepper that tapers to a rounded point and has thin, translucent skin. The waxy skin is flavorful and does not need to be peeled. The pepper has a medium to mild heat.

Hot Paper Lantern
Earlier and much more productive in the North than regular habaneros. Magnificent, elongated and wrinkled, lantern-shaped fruits are 3-4" long. Bigger than our regular habaneros, they pack the same mouth-blistering heat.

Hot Jalapeno Chile El Jefe
Peppers turn from glossy dark green to dark red when mature. Most often used when green. Excellent in salsa, salads, vegetable dishes, and making hot pickles. Pronounced "El Heffay", which means "the Chief".

Inferno Hot Banana
8" by 1-1/2" fruits with outstanding flavor - just hot enough to taste good with everything.

Jalapeno Early
A very early maturing hot jalapeno pepper. These small green peppers that will slowly turn to red as the fruit matures. Jalapenos are used in a wide variety of recipes. They are popular fresh, cooked, pickled, dried and great in salsa.

Jalapeno Purple
Dark purple, great in salsa.

Joe's Long Cayenne (Chile)
It turns bright red for homemade hot sauce and dries well for ristras and delicious, dried hot pepper flakes. The 8-10" long, thin-fleshed fruits taper to a skinny point.

Lemon Drop
Heirloom, terrifically hot, lemon flavored from Peru 2.5" long.

Magnum HAbanero
Typical habanero with bonnet shape and a gorgeous shiny bright orange color.

Mariachi
Perfect when you want a blast of color but just a hint of heat, the compact 18-24" plants yield loads of 4", coned shaped fruits that change brilliantly from creamy yellow to bright red all summer, yet taste spicy but only mildly hot. Freeze to provide fresh spicy peppers all winter.

Maya
Outstanding appearance, flavor, and burn. Peppers are lantern shaped and longer and more slender than a typical habanero, averaging 3-4" long.

Nu Mex Big Jim Anaheim
Largest Chile, 12" long, great for Chile Rellenos,
Medium Heat.

Nu Mex Joe Parker (Chile)
Peppers are mildly hot and turn from green to red when mature.

Purple Serrano
Create beautiful salsa and hot pickles by combining these with the regular green Serrano peppers.

Red Rocket (Chile)
Early ristra pepper. Tapered, thin-walled, 5-6" long fruits. Dries quickly to a bright crimson red. Dried fruits have tender flesh which is nice and soft when cooked.

Red Cayenne (very hot)
HOT but delightfully pungent in flavor! For pickling, canning or drying. Six inch long, one-half inch thin, green fruits that turn red when mature.

Ring-Of-Fire (Chile)
Peppers are very hot and turn from green to red when mature. Plant has green stems, green leaves, and white flowers. Excellent dried and used as pepper flakes.

Royal Black
Excellent for spicy dishes and vinegars. Suitable for containers.

Serrano Del Sol
Biggest and best yielding serrano! Early, with dozens of cylindrical fruits that are twice the size (3-3 1/2") of regular serrano chiles. Serrano del Sol quickly sizes up, turns from dark green to scarlet, and has excellent, very hot flavor. The serrano originated on the mountain ridges north of Puebla and Hidalgo in Mexico.

White Habanero
This Caribbean variety is a favorite for its smoky taste and extreme heat. Ornamental and unique.