Sweet Peppers
These huge bell peppers start out dark green before ripening fully to red. Plants stay a fairly compact 20 to 24 inches tall, while bearing 3 to 4-lobed fruit that are an enormous 5 inches tall and 4½ inches wide. Plants are resistant to 3 races of bacterial leaf spot plus several pepper viruses. We think that this pepper should have a place in the garden for its contribution to wonderful salads, stir-fries, and the ultimate stuffed peppers. 72 days.
Very compact plants are crowned by a profusion of upright peppers in colors of red, orange, yellow, and purple, all at the same time. Peppers are about 2 inches long and chunky, making for a spectacularly colorful display. While highly ornamental, this fruit is also very edible and sweet. As the name suggests, would be beautiful pickled in clear glass jars. 75 days.
This blocky bell pepper offers more than just good taste and large size fruit. It resists 5 races of bacterial leaf spot, phytopthora blight, tobamo virus, and has great yield potential. The 4 to 4 ½ inch fruit ripen from green to red with thick walls. 73 days.
Deep-red, extremely sweet, 7 inch long Italian peppers are tapered with a blunt end. Often used for frying, but are also delicious when eaten fresh. Later to mature than a bell pepper, but also sweeter. Vigorous plants bear loads of high quality fruit. 90 days.
Yellow-green, frying-type pepper. 6 inch long fruits have thin walls and waxy flesh. Excellent split and fried in olive oil but also a sweet and crisp addition to salads. 65 days.
AAS WINNER. Compact banana pepper is a high-yielding X3R variety that produces colorful, tasty peppers that are great fresh and also perfect for canning or pickling. Sweet banana peppers start out light yellow, then turn orange and finally red when mature. Average size is 7½ inches long and 1½ inches wide. Even though plants are compact, they produce early, often, and late into the season. 85 days.
Beautiful tangerine orange bell peppers are blocky, 4-lobed, and early to mature. Fruit becomes an average 4 inches tall and wide. Strong plants are resistant to both Tobacco Mosaic Virus and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus, which makes them easier to grow in a wide variety of climates. Colorful orange bell peppers are some of the sweetest and most nutritious peppers you will ever eat. 72 days.
Large bell peppers reliably turn red even where the season is short or weather is cool. Strong, sturdy plants become loaded with big, blocky peppers that are delicious at both green and red stages. Despite the name “King of the North,” gardeners in all areas can succeed with this outstanding variety. 70 days.
This impressively large red bell pepper has extra-thick walls and succulent sweet flavor. Its disease package is impressive too, including resistance to Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Phytophthora root rot, and Bacterial Spot, races 0-3, 5, 7, and 8. Shiny, firm peppers are 5 to 7 inches long and 3 inches wide, starting out green then ripening to bright red. Peppers feel heavy in the hand because they are so meaty and full of refreshing sweet pepper juice. 75 days green; 85 days red.
AAS WINNER. Sweet peppers in the Italian bull’s horn style mature at least a week earlier than comparative types, making them easier for shorter-season gardeners to grow. Beautiful fruit have the traditional horn shape and grow to 6 inches long and 2½ inches wide. 75 days.
A red bell pepper widely adapted to reliably turn red in almost any area of the country. Very thick-walled, heavy fruits are blocky, and about 4 inches long. Heavy yields of bright-red sweet peppers. Resistant to Tobacco mosaic virus. 68 days to green 76 days to red
Colossal bell peppers can easily reach 8 inches long and are as sweet as can be, especially when they are left to turn bright red. Plants are sturdy and quite productive, but it is good to provide a support for plants because they can be weighed down by the abundance of heavy fruit. This is an old Ozark variety with great flavor and impressive size. 85 days.