Hot Peppers
Salsa? Hot Sauce? Pickled goodness? You can find the ingredients here.
Spacing & Yield
On 30” beds, 2 rows of Peppers can be planted diagonally, at 18” apart.
On 4’ beds, 2 rows of Peppers can be planted parallel, at 18” apart.
Hot peppers produce prolifically.
Trellising and Support
Peppers “arms” get weighed down with the weight of the fruit and often will snap. I prefer to use tomato cages to keep this from happening.
Season Extension
Pepper take a while, there is no questioning that fact. Covering the peppers helps them grow faster. Using the tomato cage, covering the peppers is easy. I have added an early planting this season to allow for earlier harvests.
Spacing & Yield
On 30” beds, 2 rows of Peppers can be planted diagonally, at 18” apart.
On 4’ beds, 2 rows of Peppers can be planted parallel, at 18” apart.
Hot peppers produce prolifically.
Trellising and Support
Peppers “arms” get weighed down with the weight of the fruit and often will snap. I prefer to use tomato cages to keep this from happening.
Season Extension
Pepper take a while, there is no questioning that fact. Covering the peppers helps them grow faster. Using the tomato cage, covering the peppers is easy. I have added an early planting this season to allow for earlier harvests.
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Red Flame Cayenne Pepper
$1.50 / Plant 80 Days to First Harvest Planting (Harvest): 5/2 (7/21), 5/16 (8/4) “High yielding Red Rocket and Ristra-type cayenne. Fruits are longer than Red Rocket, avg. 6-6 1/2" long, and the plant is bigger and more productive. Similar sweet-hot taste and quick drying.” |
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Habanero Pepper
$1.50 / Plant 100 Days to First Harvest Planting (Harvest): 5/2 (8/10), 5/16 (8/4) “Extraordinary heat combined with fruity, citrus notes. Avg. 2" x 1 1/4", wrinkled fruits ripen from dark green to salmon orange. This extremely pungent habanero may be used fresh or dried. Key ingredient in Jamaican "jerk" sauces. Yield potential is good, but can be erratic in the North. “ |
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Roulette “Heatless” Habanero
$1.50 / Plant 90 Days to First Harvest Planting (Harvest): 5/16 (8/14) “Red habanero without the heat. Another exciting addition to our "no heat" habanero lineup, Roulette imparts a sweet, floral flavor without the traditional fire we expect from a habanero. The beautiful bright red fruits avg. 3" x 1 3/4" and are borne on large, sturdy plants.” |
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Hungarian Hot Wax Pepper
$1.50 / Plant 83 Days to First Harvest Planting (Harvest): 5/2 (7/24), 5/16 (8/14) “Widely adapted and productive, even in cool weather. Yellow hot pepper with 5 1/2" x 1 1/2" smooth, waxy fruits tapering to a point. Easy to stuff and to peel after roasting; thick-fleshed for frying. Its sunset-ripening peppers change from yellow to orange to red, and make the prettiest pickled peppers.” |
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Early Jalapeño Pepper
$1.50 / Plant 80 Days to First Harvest Planting (Harvest): 5/2 (7/21), 5/16 (8/4) “Cylindrical fruits are of the smaller, traditional size (2-2 1/2") and have more checking than our hybrids. Earlier but much lower yielding than our hybrids. Small plants.” |