Best Small Tomatoes and Sweet Peppers
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Comments (8)I usually plant out about 40 sweet pepper plants every year. I do not discriminate against hybrid peppers, as I do not try to save pepper seed. Peppers are usually insect pollinated, unlike tomatoes, and getting pure seed would be almost impossible in an average sized garden. Open pollinated varieties I listed below are marked OP. I plant a varying selection, because the providers switch varieties every year, dropping old ones, introducing new ones. This year, I started a larger than usual number of different varieties, only because I was almost out of some varieties and had to replace them with a different variety. This year, I have started: Brigadier (green>red), Early Sunsation (green>yellow), Gold Standard (green>yellow), Golden Calwonder (green>yellow), Jupitor (green>red, OP), Purple Beauty (purple>red, OP, but I always harvest it before it turns red), Queen Hybrid (green>orange), Sweet Chocolate, OP, Brown (very sweet, but ugly. Looks like something a dog left in your lawn), and Lilac (lilac>red, but I always harvest it before it turns red)....See MoreWhat are those small sweet peppers called?
Comments (32)"exclusively sold in the US by that same company and it's sister company, Franks Distributing of Produce LLC." Neat. Okay, I've tried the "Master's Touch" peppers, but the seed source I got mine from was from a similar "plastic clam shell" competitor. Same characteristics and taste to me, nothing even remotely different in the 3 brands commonly sold around here. One of the brands does have peppers that are consistently bigger than the other 2 brands, though. I think I may have "missed the yellow" on the peppers while I was on vacaction because, well, these plants won't ever go the level of yellow shown in stores. "Contrary to popular belief, and Although this product is very popular in the 3 colors it is sold (Yellow, Red and Orange), each of these colors are grown separately" I have all orange growing it seems, but when I visited my friend this weekend we were having orange and red peppers out of his gardens. I didn't think to ask if he got any yellow ones. With that said, I wonder if ecoseeds' "dulcetta" is a seed mix of these unique colors in separate seeds, if they turn/grow on 1 single plant, or if I have the offspring of some other company's hybrid... Thanks for adding more info to all this. I love these peppers and I am thrilled they've been so successful....See MoreNJ's BEST source for Heirloom tomatoes, hot peppers
Comments (11)Yes, I finally hopped in the chariot and took a roll through the countryside to scope out this "find" today. . . BE FOREWARNED!! This is NOT some kind of upscale nursery designed to woo the retail crowd - it is a no-nonsense operation consisting of ten (10) hoop houses (only two of which are open to the public), one port-A-potty (that's the end of the public amenities!) and it caters primarily to mail-order. The public does show up on weekends, but many of those folks are tomato/pepper afficianados who have PRE-ORDERED on-line, for pick-up within one week - this extra service (pre-ordering) costs you an additional .75 per plant, but may be the only way to guarantee you'll be able to get a hard-to-find tomato and/or pepper. Straight retail off-the-street price: $1.75 per plant, which is definitely competitive - but here's the REAL reason you might want to go and/or order: the selection of tomatoes is remarkable, the peppers astounding, and there's even a few eggplants for sale. The only other items for sale that I noticed were some fish and seaweed fertilizers, which can be hard to come by other than expensive mailorder. They have been open to the public only two weekends now, but already many varieties are gone - the lady who runs the operation (a one-woman show, been at it for 20 years!) suggests that you go on-line BEFORE you go (like the Sat. or Sun. morning before pulling out the drive) to see what's sold-out. With your up-to-date list clutched in hand (and second and third choices noted!) hit the greenhouses, where peppers and tomatoes are neatly lined up in alphabetical order. . .if you're not dead set on a rare or hard-to-find variety, you WILL find plants in the next couple of weeks. . .as of my visit today, they had about 30 varieties of tomatoes available, and maybe 50 different peppers, both hot and sweet. If you can, go during the week - no crowds (I was the only customer). . . Follow their directions (download from the website) very carefully - pay particular close attention for the Kingwood-Locktown Road off of Rte. 519, as its a common weathered street sign, easy to miss. Most of all, enjoy the drive - it's a perfectly beautiful part of New Jersey that many of us in the densely populated central and eastern parts of the state rarely get to see. . . Carl Here is a link that might be useful: Cross Country Nurseries...See MoreBest Sweet Peppers
Comments (4)James, Are you looking for peppers that are completely sweet with no heat? If so, here's a few you might like: SWEET PEPPERS: Blushing Beauty Sweet Bell: An All America Selections (AAS) winner several years ago, this pepper produces heavily on compact, stocky plants that have very good disease resistance. These peppers are never the traditional dark green bell pepper color. Instead they start out a pale ivory and then turn orangey red and finally to bright red. They're yummy. Marconi Pepper: There are various named varieties, and I especially like Golden Marconi and Red Marconi. Marconi peppers are longer and more narrow than the boxy-shaped bell peppers and have that classic Italian sweet pepper taste. They are great fried to go onto sandwiches or chopped/sliced up to eat in salads. They're also great grilled or roasted. Jimmy Nardello. This is another Italian sweet pepper and it is great cooked or in salads. It is one of the sweetest of the non-bell sweet peppers. Corno di Toro. This is an Italian heirloom that produces very large (usually at least 8" long) peppers that are a little curved and resemble a bull's horn. They mature to either a bright golden-yellow or a deep red, depending on which type of seed you buy. Great for frying, grilling or eaten fresh in salads. If you want a pepper for sweet pickled peppers, you coud grow Cherry Pick which is a hybrid form of the classic green-ripening-to-red cherry pepper. They're sweetest if you let them turn completely red before you pick them. Banana Supreme. This is a very large hybrid form of the sweet banana pepper. These start out yellow and eventually ripen to a very bright red. Even though they are commonly sold in stores in their yellow stage, they taste best and sweetest after they've turned red. HOT PEPPERS THAT ARE NOT HOT: Because many people love the flavors of hot peppers but not the heat, there are several "hot" peppers available now that have very little heat. These include: TAM Mild Jalapeno--Developed at Texas A&M University, this mild form of the jalapeno tests at about 2500 on the Scoville Unit scale used to measure the degree of heat in hot peppers. In general, jalapenos test at 2500 to 80000 Scoville Units, so you can see that TAM is one of the milder ones. Still, there are some that are much milder. Fooled You Jalapeno. This jalapeno retains the traditional great taste of a jalapeno but with virtually none of the heat. These look like typical Jalapenos but are a little bigger than many of the hot jalapenos. Delicias Jalapeno. This is a very, very mild jalapeno but it does have a little heat. It measures around 500 Scoville units. Senorita Jalapeno. This is another very mild jalapeno and is just slightly milder than Delicias. It measures around 400 Scoville units. Mariachi Hybrid. This is of the Santa Fe Grande type but is milder and measures about 500-600 Scoville heat units. It was an All American Selections winner in 2006. This one starts out yellow and ripens to red. Good in mild salsas or sauces or you can grill or fry them. They're great when you want just a bit of heat. Golden Greek Pepperoncini. If you want a mildly spicey pepperoncini type for pickling, this is the one for you. I don't know that I've ever seen its Scoville Heat Unit rating, but pepperoncini peppers usually test at 100-500 Scoville heat units, so it is pretty mild. Trinidad Perfume. This ia a pepper that looks a lot like a yellow habanero but has no heat. The fruit mature to a brilliant bright orangey-yellow. Zavory. This is a newer pepper that I saw in my catalog from The Cook's Garden and in the Burpee's catalog as well. (Burpee's owns The Cook's Garden, by the way.) It is said to have the flavor of a habanero but not the heat and comes in at around 100 Scoville heat units, compared to the "average" habanero which is around 300,000 Scoville units. So, James, that's a few of the sweeter peppers that I can think of. I like them mild because I can't handle a lot of heat, but I also grow a lot of habaneros for my spouse. I usually get the seeds of my peppers from Tomato Grower's Supply Co., which I've linked below, but you can find them in almost any catalog or website that has a good selection of pepper seed. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: TGSC Sweet Pepper Pages...See MoreBlueberryBundtcake - 6a/5b MA
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