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Peppers BBG Spring Plant Sale 2015 Type Name Color Heirloom/ Hybrid Description Scoville Rating Sweet Pepper Baby Belle Green, B Peppers BBG Spring Plant Sale 2015 Heirloom/ Scoville Type Name Color Hybrid Description rating Sweet Baby Belle Green, These tasty, tiny, 2" by 2-1/2" sweet bells will certainly be the hit Pepper Bright Red of any salad bar and are just the extra touch for that special gourmet dish. These mostly 4-lobed, emerald green beauties waste no time in turning mature bright red! Resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Sweet California Wonder Classic Heirloom Pepper green Deep green to red, thick-walled with an attractive glossy flesh. Fruits are medium-sized, 4" by 4", 3 to 4-lobed, smooth and blocky. A nice stuffer, with high yields, on 28" high plants. Sweet Chablis Hybrid Early maturity means early rewards from this easy-care variety, Pepper which thrives in full sun to produce blocky, 4" by 3" fruits on plants 18 to 24" tall. Popular for fresh salsa, salads, frying, stuffing, roasting and pickling. Weighty fruits are supersweet, with thick walls that hold their shape and slice like a dream. High yields look picture-perfect as they ripen from white to orange to brilliant red. Especially resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus and Bacterial Leaf Spot. Sweet Chocolate Beauty Chocolate High quality, flavorful medium-large, very smooth 3 and 4-lobed Pepper colored fruits mature from green to a very attractive chocolate color. Resists Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Sweet Cubanelle green to Sweet Italian frying type with delicious taste. Long, green, thick- Pepper red to skinned fruits have 2 to 3 lobes and turn yellow, then bright red yellow to at maturity. Peppers measure about 5-1/2" by 2-1/2" and are red tasty when fried in olive oil Sweet Early Sunsation Yellow The earliest, biggest and brightest yellow bell ever! Very fine, Pepper extra-large, 4-1/2", smooth fruits mature from green to bright golden-yellow, when they are at their sweetest. Excellent resistance to Bacterial Spot. Sweet Golden Cal Wonder Yellow Heirloom Very similar to California Wonder except that its smooth, glossy Pepper fruits ripen to a beautiful, golden-yellow. Adds rich color to salads and dishes. Sweet Gourmet Orange Pepper Compact plants; Sweet King Arthur Red Pepper 22" good for container; Very large, 4-lobed blocky bell pepper is hard to beat for its earliness and large size. Fruit becomes 4 1/2 -in. long and wide and seems to set well even in heat. Plants provide good foliage cover and are resistant to two types of bacterial spot and three pepper viruses. 60 days green; 75 days red. Intriguing Merlot is one of those varieties that look good on paper and prove to be even better in the garden! Rich, jewel-toned, 5 inch by 4 inch blocky fruits have gourmet eye-appeal, with crisp, thick walls and very sweet flavor. High-yielding plants mature early and are adaptable to weather conditions, growing 18 to 24 inches tall with good protection provided by lush foliage. Sweet Especially resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus and Bacterial Leaf Pepper Merlot Hybrid Spot. Printed: 4/1/2015 9:11 PM Prepared by : Karen C Mitchell Page 1 of 5 4/1/2015 Peppers BBG Spring Plant Sale 2015 Heirloom/ Scoville Type Name Color Hybrid Description rating Sweet Mohawk Container, spreading, hanging basket suitable Pepper Here's the perfect new variety to add to your patio garden. Mohawk thrives in hanging baskets, with compact plants that spread up to 10" and reach just 8" in height. Tasty, 4 to 5" fruits are blocky, thick-walled and can be havested green or allowed to ripen to a glossy orange. Very early and productive, with a good shelf life. A truly satisfiying bell pepper that can be grown just steps from your back door. Sweet Orange Blaze Orange Pepper 2012 ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS WINNER. Vigorous plants bear gorgeous 2 to 3-lobed peppers that turn bright orange quickly. The fruit is 3 to 4-inches long and 1 1/2-inches wide with a very sweet flavor, providing early harvests of delicious peppers just right for cutting into salads or for use in cooked dishes. Plants are vigorous and highly disease resistant. 65-70 days. new? Sweet Pimento L Red Large heart-shaped fruit is 4-1/2 inches long and borne on 1-1/2 Pepper ft. tall, strong, upright plants. Pimento peppers are often canned, pickled and otherwise processed. Tobacco mosaic virus resistant. 95 to 100 days. new? Blocky, thick-walled, dark purple bells set well not only in the Sweet crown, but also as limb set. Compact plants offer good foliage Pepper Purple Beauty Purple cover for the fruit. Beautiful in salads as well as stuffed. 70 days. Sweet Sheepnose pimento Red A tried-and-true heirloom that's enjoying a resurgence in Pepper popularity, and for good reason-pimento-shaped, 3 by 4" fruits are very sweet and meaty, making them ideal for canning, freezing and eating fresh. Plants are very productive, and fruits keep for weeks in the refrigerator new? Sweet Sweet Banana Pale green Profuse harvests of 5-1/2 to 6 inch long, tapered peppers that are Pepper wonderful fried or cut up into salads. Light green at first, they turn yellow and orange, and finally ripen to red. Compact plants. 72 days. Pepper, Alma Paprika Red mild Paprika is a kitchen staple that's easy-to-grow and process. One of the best paprika for drying, grinding, or picked straight from the prolific plants and eaten fresh. Thick-walled, sweet fruits start out creamy-white, then mature to orange, and finally red. Hot Pepper Annaheim Chile Dark Green Also know as the 'New Mexican Chile,' this moderately pungent to bright fruit is deep green, but turns red at full maturity. Very smooth Red peppers are 7-1/2 inches long and 2 inches wide and borne on tall, productive plants that offer good foliage cover for the fruit. Tobacco mosaic virus resistant. Excellent for canning, freezing or drying. 75 days. new? Printed: 4/1/2015 9:11 PM Prepared by : Karen C Mitchell Page 2 of 5 4/1/2015 Peppers BBG Spring Plant Sale 2015 Heirloom/ Scoville Type Name Color Hybrid Description rating Hot Pepper Bhut Jolokia Ghost Pepper; one of the hottest peppers in the world, bearing extremely hot red fruit about 2 ½ inches long. In 2007, Guiness World Book of Records named it the hottest pepper and listed it as 1,002,304 Scoville Units. It has since been surpassed, but it’s still plenty hot and should be handled with great care. Germination may take up to one month. 100 days to maturity 1,000,000 Hot Pepper Big Jim The largest of New Mexican varieties, this pepper has pods up to 12 inches long that weigh as much as 4 ounces. Their size makes them a favorite for chiles rellenos. Medium hot pungency. As an advantage, plants are able to set fruit under hot, dry conditions. 80 days Hot Pepper Burning Bush Connoisseurs of hot peppers know that the best varieties temper their heat with a touch of sweet. This scorching new introduction gets it exactly right, with a pleasant aftertaste to the medium- large fruits but plenty of fire at the leading edge. Strong plants produce excellent sets of firm fruits that mature green to orange, averaging 1-1/2 inch by 3 inches in length. The earliest-maturing variety of its type on the market, with a Scoville rating of up to 180,000. Now that's hot! 180,000 Bountiful harvest of pencil-shaped fruits that are 5 inches long and 1/2 inch thick, but often curled and twisted. Flavor is red hot Hot Pepper Cayenne Long Thin Red and best used in very hot dishes. Easily dried. 75 days. Hot Pepper Chichimeca Hybrid A giant-fruited jalapeno pepper that becomes 4 in. long and 2 in. wide. Fruit is a little milder than regular Jalapeno, measuring about 3500 Scoville units rather than the 5000 units registered by the standard Jalapeno. Expect large yields of these impressive peppers on strong virus-resistant plants. 65 days. 3500 Hot Pepper Devil Serrano Dark Green High yields of dark green, finger-sized, glossy fruits begin to mature early so you can enjoy them all season, but be prepared- this one's a real firecracker, with a whopping 6,000 Scoville units. Prized for its vigorous habit and extended shelf life, both in the U.S. and Mexico. Semi-determinate plants are easy to harvest, with less sprawl and a more efficient use of garden space. 6,000 new? Hot Pepper Early Jalapeno Very hot, ideal for Mexican dishes. Deep green fruits mature to red. Sausage-shaped fruits, 3-1/2" by 1-1/2", are also perfect for pickling. Just like Jalapeno, but earlier and better adapted to cool Hybrid coastal conditions. Compact, non-brittle bushes Printed: 4/1/2015 9:11 PM Prepared by : Karen C Mitchell Page 3 of 5 4/1/2015 Peppers BBG Spring Plant Sale 2015 Heirloom/ Scoville Type Name Color Hybrid Description rating Hot Pepper Fish Heirloom African-American 80 days. A very unique African-American heirloom pepper that originated in Baltimore in the 1870's. Traditionally used to in the oyster and crab houses, it is used to make medium hot to very hot dishes. It is also a beautiful plant, with variagated foliage and decorative peppers that start green with cream strpies, turn red with brown stripes, and finally ripen solid red. Hot Pepper Fooled You Hybrid Jalapeno hybrid; Truly a jalapeno pepper for gringos, this one has no heat, but still retains the essential flavor of a jalapeno.
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