Sweet Pepper

'Purple Beauty'. 70 days. Medium-sized dark purple fruit is produced on compact plants. Fruits are thick walled and blocky.

Sweet Pepper

'Roumanian Rainbow'. 60 days. Very early, colorful bell peppers start out as ivory, turn persimmon orange, then finally mature to red. Peppers are 4 to 5 inches long and very sweet.

Sweet Pepper

'Socrates X3R'. 68 days. Four-lobed blocky bell peppers become very large, at least 4 inches long and wide, with thick walls and delicious taste. This is really an impressive pepper that is wonderful for eating fresh, cooking, or making into stuffed peppers. Fruit turns from green to red and is sweet at all stages. Vigorous, tall plants are resistant to 3 races of Bacterial Spot and Potato Y Virus.

Sweet Pepper

'Super Heavyweight Hybrid'. 77 days. Huge, bell-type, ripens green to gold. Thick walled, sweet and crunchy. If you are looking to win competitions, this is the pepper to grow.

Sweet Pepper

'Super Sweet Cherry'. 75 days to first fruit. Extra large cherry type, 1-3/4 inch round peppers mature red. Good for pickling and stuffing.

Sweet Pepper

'Sweet Cayenne'. 75 days. Cayenne shaped fruits up to 12 inches long ripen red but stay sweet. Productive plants bear loads of these crinkly, thin walled fruit that are perfect for use in stir fries.

Sweet Pepper

'Sweet Pickle'. 75 days. Red, orange, yellow, and purple fruit at the same time. Two inch long, chunky fruit grow upward. Compact plants.
Crop Failure

Sweet Pepper

'Tequila Hybrid'. 72 days. This beautiful amethyst pepper from Holland produces early fruit that is a blocky 4 1/2 inches deep and 4 inches across. Peppers begin as lavender, eventually turning red.

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Before You Visit Us
- This is not an availability list!
  Please call to check our supply before you visit.
  This catalog lists most of the varieties I am growing or plan to grow, however, it is not possible to list everything. Some plants are tricky to propagate; others are too new for me to describe in any detail. Demand for certain varieties is sometimes greater than I anticipated and we run out. Usually, during the Spring season, there is another crop on the way.
  
  I can guarantee the quality of our plants because we grow them ourselves. I cannot guarantee that every item listed will be available at any given time.
About Our Veggies
- About Our Veggies
  The strength of the vegetable garden is its ability to yield the freshest produce from superior varieties that are unobtainable in the supermarket. That philosophy carries over into what I select to offer you. The way my plants are grown also offers you benefits. All vegetable plants are sold in individual pots to permit you to select just the number you need when you need them. Plants in individual pots tend to be more vigorous, grow faster, and produce a larger harvest. For you this means better vegetables sooner. Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplants, and most other vegetable plants are $1.69 each. Lettuce, Italian and Asian greens are $1.29 unless otherwise specified.
Hot, Hot, Hot-Ranking Chile Heat
- Hot, Hot, Hot-Ranking Chile Heat
  Several factors play a large role in determining pungency or 'heat' of a particular pepper. Aside from genetics, environment plays a major role in determining chile pungency. The same variety can vary wildly from year to year or even plant to plant. According to Dave Dewitt, author of The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia, "soil, fertilizer, and stress from over or under watering; excessive summer heat, winds, and solar radiation; excess or lack of humidity; as well as ambient insecticides and air pollution" can all increase the pungency level of fruits. This was proven to me by accident when Susan Belsinger grew one of my white habañero peppers in her Maryland garden while I tested one of its brethren in my own garden. She reported that her harvest yielded fruits that were hot but nothing she couldn't handle. Upon trying a small piece of one from my garden she declared, with watery eyes, that they were much hotter than hers. Attempting to rate and compare heat levels is therefore difficult at best and at worst a little silly. For comparison's sake I have put together the following chart. As pointed out, your results will vary. From high to low pungency:
  Red Habañero
  White Habañero
  Chiltepin
  Thai Hot
  Jamaican Chocolate
  Super Chile Hybrid
  Piquin
  Cayenne
  Tabasco
  Kung Pao
  Mushroom
  Cherry Bomb
  Serrano
  Garden Salsa
  Jalapeño
  Big Jim
  Mexibell
  Hungarian Hot Wax
  Poblano/Ancho
  Anaheim
  Pasilla Bajio
  Pimiento
  Pepperoncini
  Sweet Bell Pepper
Supporting Tomatoes and Peppers
- Supporting Tomatoes and Peppers
  Supporting tomato plants helps control disease and makes it easier to harvest the fruit. The support systems I have seen for sale at garden centers are generally laughably short; a contraption three feet high and a foot around is not going to provide much support for a six-foot plant three feet in diameter. My grandfather favored large home designed tomato cages made from concrete reinforcing wire. The cages were 6 feet high and nearly three feet in diameter and provided support for lush growth and heavy yields. The cages had some drawbacks, however; they were heavy, hard to move, and they took up a lot of storage space. My father started out with stakes made of stout pieces of wood, but found they could be snapped easily when a strong, wet wind blew against a mature plant. He used 1/2-inch diameter by 10 foot long metal, electrical conduit for a number of years and found it worked well for tomatoes as well as eggplant. I usually cut the conduit into 8 foot lengths. It's light and easily pushed into garden soil, and is easily stored. The metal conduit lasts for years with virtually no maintenance. To tie the stems of tomatoes and eggplants to the conduit, I use plastic stretch ties (available at the nursery). Old pantyhose or cheese cloth work well also.