sweet peppers varietiies for the home food gardener

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[summer] [autumn] [spring] [home] [annotated contents] Early varieties are ready about 1 month and 3 weeks from planting out
Midseason varieties are ready about 2½ months from planting out.
Late season varieties will be ready around 3 months from planting out.
'Ready' means the fruit have changed from green to red, or whatever their final mature color is. They can, of course, be eaten when green.

BELL

RED RIPE
Californian Wonder- ripens red; mid season

YELLOW RIPE
Californian Wonder Golden bell- thick walled, mid season
OrobelleF1- thick walled, strong plants, mid season

ORANGE RIPE
Mandarin thick wall, late season
Ariane F1 Very deep orange, thick wall, mid season, produces well in good conditions. Originally a Dutch glasshouse cultivar.

BROWN RIPE
Sweet chocolate-This is a pepper, not a confection! The fruit are actually bland and tasteless for a sweet pepper, but the colour is exactly the colour of milk chocolate. Sweet chocolate is very productive, very attractive, and very reliable, especially if conditions have been a bit cool. Early season.
Chocolate Boy- A very large bell, thick walled, upright plants, Moderate productivity.Mid season
PURPLE RIPE

TAPERED BELL
Marconi Red-About 150mm long by about 60mm wide at the shoulders, gradually tapering to a blunt tip. The plants are tall (around 80cms) and narrow, and tend to fall over when fully laden. They definitely need to be staked. Mid season.

CONE
Lipstick-Despite the off-putting name, this is probably the second best outdoor sweet capsicum it is possible to grow. The plants crop very well, they are early, and don't drop their flowers if the weather turns unseasonally cool. The fruit are glossy red, about 100mm long, with thick walls, sweet, no bitterness or off flavours. Early season.

CHERRY & MINIBELL
Cherry -Small open plants bear 40mm x 40mm miniature 3 or 4 lobed bell peppers. Immensly productive, and they produce over a long season. By far the earliest sweet pepper to mature. Bright red at maturity. Good fresh, ideal size for pickling whole. Particularly well suited to pot culture .
Mini -Available in both a red and a yellow form, these are perfect miniature bells. They are astoundingly productive, early, and suitable for pickling whole as well as fresh eating.

BULLS HORN
Nardello Sweet, medium thick walled peppers. This cultivar is noted for both it's flavor and it's productivity.
Yellow Banana (syn. 'sweet banana', 'Hungarian wax sweet', 'Long sweet Hungarian wax' etc) To 150mm, ripens from pale yellow to light yellow flushed red, then more or less bright red. Prolific.Mid season

PIMENTO
Usually shaped like a bell pepper that has been flattened. They are no different to any other pepper, varying in ripe color-altho usually red or yellow-and tasting the smae as bells. They are often smaller than bell peppers.

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