Peppers, Different Kinds

Sweet Peppers

• Our Best Red: King Arthur
• Our Best Yellow: Lafayette
• Our Best Orange: Valencia
• Other ‘Colored’ Peppers: Purple – Beauty Lilac Chocolate – Beauty
• Elongated Red: Big Bertha
• Italian Gourmet Salad Bar Pepper: Robustini
• Sweet Non-Bell Peppers: Sweet Banana, Gypsy, Giant Marconi
• “Grilling” Peppers: Giant Marconi
• Cherry: Sweet Cherry
• Old Time Favorite: Lady Bell California Wonder

Bell Peppers, Hybrid

• Bell Boy – Super All Purpose Pepper
• Chocolate Bell – Unique Chocolate Flavor
• Golden Bell – Sweet, Good for Gourmet dishes
• King Arthur – Sweet, good stuffed with meat mixture
• Lady Bell – Dependable and sweet
• Lafayette – Stays firmer than most
• Purple Beauty – Harvest when purple, add vivid color to salads
• Red Knight – Biggest, blockiest, juiciest
• Super Sweet 860 – Enormous and great for stuffing

Heirloom Peppers

• California Wonder – Great stuffing pepper, always a favorite
• Robustini – Sweet pungent taste, good for pickeling

Chili Peppers

• Anaheim – Hot – Harvest green or red
• Big Dipper – Terrific in salads or cooking
• Caribbean Red – Hotter than a Habanero
• Cayenne – Adds zest to your dishes
• Habanero Red – One of hottest peppers, good in sauces
• Hungarian Wax – Fairly hot
• Jalapeno – Favorite Hot Pepper
• Kung Pao – Hot, use in Asian dishes – looks like a witches finger
• Scotch Bonnet – Confused with Habanero, but not cultivar
• Serrano – Not too hot but has unique flavor
• Super Chili – One of most pungent peppers, use sparingly in salsa
• Thai – Five times hotter than Jalapeno, ornamental and edible
• Tabasco – Great in sauces
• Black Pearl – Ornamental Pepper, shiny black pearl shape pepper , very hot to taste
• Cherry Bomb – Round to oval shape, Medium to Hot
• False Alarm – Has a sweet taste, mild
• Holy Mole – Mildly hot, nutty flavor
• Hot Cherry – Shaped like a cherry, Hot
• Poblano L – Poblano when fresh, Ancho when dried – Hot

Hot Peppers, Hybrid

• Cherry Bomb
• False Alarm Serrano Super Chili
• Heirloom Hot Peppers
• Tabasco