VEGETABLES / PEPPER
SWEET
Small, conical, orange fruit. Beautiful little pepper! Fruit ripens from green to yellow to orange and reaches 1.5 inches long, 1.8 inches wide and about 1oz. Short plants grow 1.5-2' tall and have branches that rest on the ground; well suited for container gardening. Highly productive plants when grown in 2024 at Heritage Farm. Crunchy and juicy with moderately thick skin. Moderately sweet. Perfect for stuffing or snacking. Early maturing. C. annuum. Donated to SSE by Keith Miller of Iowa City, IA. Originally brought to the Wellman/Kalona, IA area from Pennsylvania by Keith's great-grandmother, Mary Ida (Yoder) Miller, in the 1880's. The family stuffs the peppers with cabbage and cans them.
Accession: SSE 118283
$3
Listed In: 2014