This Year's Sweet Peppers

This may seem like a lot of pepper plants, but I like to freeze them and have them for recipes all through the year, as well as enjoy them fresh while we can. Besides, what else am I going to do during the quarantine? ha!

Atlant - (Red) Mid-season variety (130-140 days) for open ground and greenhouses. Scrub grows up to 70-75 cm high, requires support during fruiting period. Large, cube-shaped fruits.

Cardinal - (Black) The variety is early ripening, unusual coloring. The plant is medium-sized. The position of the fruit is inclined to the ground. The fruit is cone-shaped, smooth, glossy, dark purple in ripeness.

Zolotoy Fazan - (Yellow) Also known as Golden Pheasant. Medium early variety(100-110 days from germination to mature).  Plant height 50-60 cm. Fruits are heart shaped , yellow-orange color, weight 150-200 gr., good taste. The flesh is juicy, sweet, aromatic, the wall thickness of 7-9 mm. Recommended for cultivation in the open field and greenhouses.

Bill's Stripped - (Red) elongated fruit, generally 6 to 8” long, horn-shaped and lightly lobed, sometimes tapering to a blunt 2-4 lobes at the bottom but other times more pointed (even on the same plant), but always red with lengthwise stripes that appear yellow to cream on green fruits and lighter red to cream on fully ripe fruits.

Orange Sun -  (Orange) 80 days. Capsicum annuum. Plant produces good yields of 5" long deep orange sweet bell peppers. Peppers turn from green to deep orange when mature. Plant has green stems, green leaves, and white flowers. Peppers are very sweet and have thick walls and are excellent for salads, stir fry, and gourmet dishes. A variety from the USA.

Antohi Romania - (Yellow/Red) Eastern European frying pepper. Smooth, 4" long by 2" wide, tapered, pointed fruits are pale yellow and ripen red. The upright plants have good branch strength and yield early and heavily. 

Pippin's Golden Honey - (Orange) This colorful sweet pepper ripens from a deep dark purple to a bright honey-mustard, to a cheerful golden orange. The 3-4" fruits have thin walls, making it great for stuffing, pickling, or eating fresh. This is one of the many peppers traded by Philly Area folk artist Horace Pippin for bee stings from H Ralph Weaver's hives in West Chester in the early 1940s. In a deep freezer, nearly half a century ago, William Woys Weaver found these seeds (as well as those of the Fish Pepper and many others) in labeled baby food jars.

Red Belgian - (Red) Capscium annuum, Excellent sweet early pepper. A heavy producer, Red Belgian Pepper starts out yellow and ages to red. Crunch 3-4″ fruit are great fresh picked or on a salad. 50 days from transplant for yellow fruits and 70 days for red.

Aranyalma - (Yellow) I couldn't find a description of these online, but from the photo, these are a pimento type pepper. Should be fun to see what develops.

Carmagnola Rossa - (Red) “Carmagnola Rosso” is one of the four morphological types of regional peppers grown across 26 neighboring towns in Italy. The Carmagnola peppers have been successfully cultivated in the area of Carmagnola in the province of Turin for over a century. The four shapes include: ox horn (lungo o corno di bue), square (quadrato), tumaticot o mujá, and trottola.

Petite Marseilias - (Orange) Petit Marseillais is an heirloom sweet pepper from the South of France.  These sunset-orange fruits are about five inches long, two inches wide, and beautifully wrinkled or wavy. The plants are two feet tall and consistently loaded with peppers 

Zulu - (Black) Sweet pepper 'Zulu' (Capsicum annuum) is an interesting variety, whose fruit turn almost completely black as they ripen. These plants stand out with high yield and produce attractively looking, rectangular fruit consisting of thick, dense and sweet flesh.

Tequila Sunrise - (Orange) Fruits ripen from green to orange. Carrot-shaped fruits grow to 5 inches with firm crunchy flesh is mildly peppery and sweet. 60-78 days from transplant.

Largo de Reus - (Red) Mid season. Largo de Reus from Spain is a huge sweet bell pepper from Spain. Plant height is 70-90 cm. The aromatic, red pods can reach lengths of 12-15 cm. They are thick-walled and juicy. Great for salads, stuffing, cooking, roasting, stewing, grilling. High yielding.

Bogdan - (Yellow/Orange) A sweet yellow and orange pepper from the Ukraine. 

Weaver's Mennonite - (Red) Capsicum annuum, old heirloom of the Weaver's family from Lancaster County, Pennysylvania, USA. Documented around 1860 and possibly even older. 
Small round flattened peppers, stuffing type. 3 to 4 cm in diameter. Ripens from green to red. Very firm and crispy thick flesh with a good taste, no heat. Bush-shaped plants of 60 cm with a compact structure. 
Strong, early and highly productive variety. The fruits can be left ripe on the plant for a long time.

That's the sweets. Next post I'll document the hot peppers that I'm growing!