Buy your Pepper Plants June 1st- June 10th!
We recommend planting June 10th
Sweet Peppers • Hot Peppers!
It's finally getting close to time to plant peppers! We will plant ours around June 10th (they can often go in a bit earlier in Boulder). They do NOT like cool ground temperatures! (Peppers don't thrive or produce well if planted too early.) We have gotten a good crop of peppers almost every year for the last 23 years with the late planting strategy. Some will have to be covered when we get the first frost in September or October. Most of the green ones will turn red by September, some in August. We have many kinds of hot and sweet pepper plants including our very favorites that grow well at WeeBee Farms.
Hot Peppers
Early Jalapeno • Anaheim • Serrano • Bulgarian Carrot Chile • Santaka Hot Asian • Shishito
Bulgarian Carrot Chile
One of our favorite hot peppers. It has a pleasant sweet, fruity flavor that complements the heat. A very productive pepper plant that grows only 18” high but may have 40-55 peppers per plant. The peppers are 3” long and good in eggs, salsa, pickling, marinades, hot sauces or for roasting and cooking. Go easy because they are very hot!
5,000–30,000 Scovilles
About 68 days to maturity
Shishito Peppers
Small 2-4”, mild Japanese pepper for roasting, pan-frying and grilling.
Thin walls blister and char easily when roasted or grilled, taking on rich flavor that is delicious with coarse salt and lemon juice. Not hot but the occasional fruit may display heat. Typicallyused green, but eventually turns orange and red with sweeter flavor. Prolific!
2ft high plants may be planted in containers
Days to Maturity: 55-60 days green • from Organic Seed
Sweet Peppers!
Sweet Italians Peppers: Jimmy Nardello • Chervena Chushka • Carmen
Bell: King Crimson (a good bell pepper that produces well and early)
Jimmy Nardello
Jimmy Nardello is a longtime favorite of ours for salads and veggie stir fries- most don't make it into the house because we snack on them in the garden.
walled 6-8" long. Good raw, in stir-fries and fried.
Brought to Connecticut from the village of Ruoti in the Basilicata region of southern Italy in 1887 by Jimmy Nardello’s mother.
Tall plants should be staked.
76 days to maturity (red) • From Organic Seed
Carmen Sweet Italian
In our search for good organic pepper seeds we found this extra sweet one. These large red Italian peppers are super- sweet, and the plants are really productive. Use them for salads, stir-frying, stuffing, roasting and eating fresh off the vine. These are definitely worth growing. They are 5-6" long with thick walls. The plants are leafy which helps prevent sunscald on the peppers as they ripen.
30" high plants need staking.
Days To Maturity- 60 green; 80 red ripe
from Organic Seed
Chervena Chushka
Fabulous Romanian Sweet pepper!
