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SWEET PEPPERS Capsicum annum
Native to the Americas, peppers come in thousands of varieties, many unusual flavors, and all shapes and sizes. Heirloom peppers are usually more flavorful than the modern type peppers, and most give huge yields. They are one of the easiest crops to grow, and are not much bothered by pests. Try some this year!SWEET PEPPERS
25 seeds per packet. See hot peppers.
25-35 seeds per pkt.
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Topepo Rosso
This Italian heirloom produces tasty, blood red, round pimento-type peppers that are very sweet. The flesh is very thick and crisp. Short, compact plants produce huge yields; great fresh or cooked. A wonderful specialty variety that has many uses.
Item Code: PP101
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $7.50
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Quadrato d'Asti Rosso
80 days. Very thick, brilliant red flesh, the fruit are huge with delicious rich-sweet taste. Excellent for frying, salads or stuffing, one of the largest red bells, beautiful and blocky, The perfect pepper for home and market growers, produces large yields. Very popular with many fine markets in Italy. Superb!
Item Code: PP102
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Quadrato d'Asti Giallo
80 days. The giant yellow Quadrato bell pepper. The huge fruit are a favorite here. The largest variety we have grown, beautiful and blocky, with very thick walls, the flavor is outstanding - sweet and rich! This Italian variety gives very heavy yields, one of the best varieties for marketing. This superb pepper is a real winner!
Item Code: PP103
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $9.00
1 oz. - $22.00
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California Wonder
70 days. An excellent green bell pepper, nice size and very good yield, a popular old-time variety.
Item Code: PP106
Bulk Quantities
1 oz. - $7.00
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Red Marconi
80 days. A late Italian pepper that yields big 7" long tapering fruit, very sweet, great for frying or fresh!
Item Code: PP107
Bulk Quantities
1 oz. - $8.00
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Golden Cal Wonder
78 days. Colorful golden bells that are very sweet and tasty. Gold peppers are superb for fresh eating, great for kitchen or market gardens.
Item Code: PP108
Bulk Quantities
1 oz. - $8.00
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Emerald Giant
78 days. Large, blocky bells have thick sweet flesh. Dark green fruit turn red when ripe. Vigorous plants give heavy yields. A good variety for the south. Developed in 1963.
Item Code: PP109
Bulk Quantities
1 oz. - $10.50
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Corno di Toro Giallo
The traditional favorite in Italy. Long 8" tapered, bull-horn shaped golden-yellow peppers are sweet and spicy. They are great fresh or roasted. Large plants yield well. Among the best peppers you can grow and so delicious. Pure Italian seed.
Item Code: PP112
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $8.00
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Corno di Toro Rosso
Same as above but fruits are a deep glowing red. These are wonderful fresh, and for roasting and frying. Great for market growers and home gardeners alike. Pure Italian seed.
Item Code: PP113
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $8.00
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Golden Treasure
80 days. Beautiful, sweet golden-yellow peppers, this Italian heirloom is excellent for frying, roasting and fresh eating. Large tapered 9" fruit.
Item Code: PP117
Bulk Quantities
1 oz. - $10.50
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Italian Pepperoncini
The popular, little, thin, pickling pepper. 3"-5" fruit have a superb flavor and just a little heat. Small plants. This heirloom comes from southern Italy.
Item Code: PP111
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $7.00
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Thai Long Sweet
Light-green fruit are about 6" long, with a tapered and pointed frying pepper shape. Great for grilling or frying, this pepper is very popular iin Thailand. We are happy to offer this rare and delicious variety.
Item Code: PP118
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Red Cheese Pepper
80 days. Candy-sweet, round, flat, 3", pimento-type peppers that have thick, red flesh, great for stuffing or fresh eating. So good, they are almost addictive. Very productive plants. Once used to color cheese.
Item Code: PP119
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $9.00
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Mini Red Bell
60 days. Oh, so cute! Tiny, red, bell peppers are only about 1-1/2" tall and wide. They have thick, red flesh that is very sweet and great for stuffing. 2' tall plants produce loads of these little winners and early, too.
Item Code: PP120
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Purple Beauty
75 days. Purple peppers are always a favorite, as they are so colorful. This variety produces loads of beautiful bells on compact, bushy plants. Crisp texture and mild, sweet flavor makes this one popular with everyone. I even believe Peter Piper picked a peck of these purple peppers and I don't blame him.
Item Code: PP121
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $9.00
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Bull Nose
The original, Bull Nose pepper was popular in early America and was grown by Thomas Jefferson. They are still grown at Monticello today. This is one of the first, medium-large, "bell" type peppers. Although, this strain may be larger than the strain grown by Mr. Jefferson. It most likely dates back to the Bull Nose of the mid to late 1800's. Delicious, good-sized fruit are great in salads or for cooking.
Item Code: PP124
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Sweet Chocolate
75 days. I love the flavor of this rich, chocolate-brown pepper. The flesh is cola-red color; very sweet and delicious. The medium-sized, semi-bell shaped fruit ripen very early, making this variety perfect for the north (or anyone who likes peppers). Great in salads.
Item Code: PP126
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz - $9.50
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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. A great variety for market.
Item Code: PP127
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $7.00
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Red Belgian
This variety is popular among growers for its earliness and high yields. The fruit start out a pale yellow, then slowly turn red. The peppers are wedge shaped and 3 1/2" long. Many growers prefer the flavor to ordinary bell peppers as they are very sweet and rich in taste. This is a family heirloom from Belgium.
Item Code: PP128
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Charleston Belle
New!
The first nematode-resistant bell pepper. Large, beautiful fruit are smooth
and of good quality. A great pepper for the South or areas where nematodes
are a problem. Attractive, compact plants produce fairly early. Developed
by the USDA in Charleston, South Carolina.
Item Code: PP133
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Paradicsom Alaku Sarga
New!
One of the truly great Hungarian peppers. Yellow, flat, ribbed pumpkin shaped
fruit have the tremendous flavor that peppers from Hungary are
famous for. The flesh is very thick, crisp and juicy. This rare variety was
collected at a farmers’ market in Matrafured, Hungary, but developed at
Szentes, Hungary. A winning variety.
Item Code: PP134
Out of Stock
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Jupiter
New!
A large commercial variety that is perfect for home and market growers.
This variety produces green fruit that are a blocky 4.5" x 4.5." They ripen
red and get sweet, thick walls. A good producer of quality bells, plants
are also disease resistant.
Item Code: PP135
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Coban Red Pimiento
New!
This local favorite was collected by us at a market in the beautiful mountain
town of Coban, Guatemala. Rich in flavor, this variety is good cooked
or raw. Fruit are small and pointed. Another beautiful variety from a very
off -the-road place. Pkt (10 seeds)
Item Code: PP136
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Orange Bell
New!
Super sweet, brilliant orange fruit are blocky, and good-sized thick flesh
is flavorful and among the best tasting of all peppers. Plants produce
large yields of this most magnificent pepper.
Item Code: PP137
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Sweet Yellow Stuffing
New!
This amazing little pepper comes to us from Amish grower Ester Smucker
of Indiana. The seed was passed down to her from her Grandmother,
whom she fondly remembers growing these peppers in the 1950s in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. The very productive plants produce the cutest little
mini bell-shaped peppers, only 1"-2" across! Ester
uses these to make wonderful stuff ed and
pickled peppers!
Item Code: PP129
Out of Stock
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Sweet Red Stuffing
New!
The brilliant red-colored version of the heirloom
stuffing peppers from Amish grower Ester
Smucker of Indiana. The seed was passed
down to her from her Grandmother, whom
she fondly remembers growing these peppers
in the 1950s in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The very productive plants produce the cutest
little mini bell-shaped peppers, only 1"-2"
across! Ester uses these to make wonderful
stuff ed and pickled peppers! Both the stuffing
peppers start green, and can be used at that
stage, too.
Item Code: PP130
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King Of The North
New!
An exciting bell pepper for short-season growers.
This variety produces nice, blocky fruit
that are nicely flavored when picked green or
red. Plants are productive even in most of the
Northern areas.
Item Code: PP131
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Large Sweet Of Antigua
New!
A large, sweet frying-type pepper
that we collected in the central market in the
quaint, colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala.
This pepper turns bright red when ripe, and is
very sweet. Pkt (10 seeds)
Item Code: PP132
Out of Stock
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