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    • Sweet Peppers


    I grow and sale mostly heirloom plants at the Vernon Friday Farmers Market, starting the first friday of May. I am a backyard gardener that sales a few extra Pepper and Tomato plants along with some of my art works. I am a very small scale grower so if there is something that you would really like to try, please come early to the market to buy your plants.


    The sweet pepper is an excellent source of vitamins A and C and a good source of potassium. It also contains vitamin B6 and folic acid for energy. I`ve chosen these peppers because of there great taste and very early maturing qualities.

    Peppers thrive in full sun with at least 6 hours of direct sun a day, high heat, and normal to dry soil, provided it's well-drained. They also need to be started indoors or greenhouse early in the year (April) to produce mature fruit. I have been trying different varieties to find ones that do well in our area with ease and have that great red pepper taste.

       4" pot $2.00  Blushing Beauty - peppers first start out ivory then to a light red then orange-red and finally to a deep red. Thick walled bell peppers are 4" in size with a sweet flavor.
    72 days
       4" pot $2.00  Northstar - This is the earliest large bell to turn from green to red. The 3–4 lobed medium to large fruit are smooth and have medium-thick flesh. Plants have strong branching habit, good leaf cover, and high yields.
    66 days
       4" pot $2.00  Romanian Rainbow - is a very early colorful bell pepper. Ivory at first then turns persimmon orange and finally matures to red. Peppers are 4" - 5" and very sweet.
    60 days
       4" pot $2.00  Antohi Romanian Pepper - has smooth 4 inch long, 2 inch wide tapered sweet peppers that begin as pale yellow and then ripening to bright red. Pre-1920 open pollinate Romanian Heirloom pepper.
    75 days



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    Hot Peppers


    In 1912 a chemists by the name of Wilbur Scoville, working for the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company, developed a method to measure the heat level of chili peppers. The test is named after him, the "Scoville Organoleptic Test". All hot peppers contain capsaicinoids, natural substances that produce a burning sensation in the mouth, causing the eyes to water and the nose to run, and even induce perspiration. Capsaicinoids have no flavor or odor, but act directly on the pain receptors in the mouth and throat. The primary capsaicinoids, capsaicin, is so hot that a single drop diluted in 100,000 drops of water will produce a blistering of the tongue. Capsaicinoids are found primarily in the pepper's placenta--the white "ribs" that run down the middle and along the sides of a pepper. Since the seeds are in such close contact with the ribs, they are also hot.

    Use Extreme Caution when handling very hot peppers!. Use disposable rubber gloves and wash your hands well when cutting any hot peppers. Keep hands away from the eyes, if need be....apply sliced cucumber or wet tea bags to relieve the burning.

    With growing hot peppers the heat will vary due to a couple reasons. The more hours of sunshine will increase the heat and stress of a plant such as drought or lack of watering.



    Habanero Chill Peppers

       4" pot $2.00  Congo Trinidad In Trinidad, habanero pepper relatives are called 'Congo peppers' and this one is an extra-large red habanero type. At 2 inches long and wide, its peppers are significantly bigger and more ribbed than the typical red habanero. They are also intensely hot and extremely productive, with large harvests of peppers. This one matures 15 - 25 day before the regular Habanero varieties.
    Scoville units: 250,000 - 350,000 - Days to mature: 80
       4" pot $2.00  Jamaican Hot Chocolate a deep chocolate colored, habanero type peppers have a strong, smoky taste along with blistering heat.
    Scoville units: 100,000 - 200,000 - Days to mature: 85




    Chill Peppers

       4" pot $2.00  Serrano del Sol Hybrid - has peppers that are twice the size and two to three weeks earlier than the original. Peppers are fleshy and meaty with the unique Serrano flavor so popular in Mexican cuisine and are quite versatile for sauces, salsas, or flavoring. Fruit is about 3-inches long and 1/2 inches wide and green, maturing to a bright red.
    Scoville units: 8,000 - 22,000 - Days to mature: 64 - 67
       4" pot $2.00  Guajillo peppers is the most common chili in Mexico after the Ancho.
    Scoville units: 2,500 - 5,000 - Days to mature: 75 - 80
       4" pot $2.00  Pasilla Bajio peppers are dark green, turning brown as it ripens. A milder Mexican hot pepper, this pepper is a traditional component of mole. More grown for it's rich, smoky flavor than it's heat,
    Scoville units: 5,000 - Days to mature: 75 - 80
       4" pot $2.00  Poblano peppers are mild and quite large (4" long) and somewhat heart-shaped. They are very dark green in color, ripening to dark red to brown.
    Scoville units: 1000 - 2000 - Days to mature: 66
       4" pot $2.00  Mariachi Hybrid make for great poppers, just fill them with your favorite cheese stuffing and bake in the oven.
    Scoville units: 500 - 1000 - Days to mature: 66




    Jalapeno Peppers

       4" pot $2.00  Jalapeno M is the most popular chili variety grown in Mexico. Just 3 1/2 inches long and about 1 1/2 inches wide, these rounded, thick-walled fruits are borne in great numbers on very vigorous 26-inch plants.
    Scoville units: 3,500 - 5,000 Days to mature: 65
       4" pot $2.00  Tam Jalapeno is milder than jalapeno M for those who want a little less heat. Medium green to red when fully mature.
    Days to mature: 65 - 70




    Cayenne Peppers

       4" pot $2.00  Golden Cayenne are a golden yellow colored pepper that is milder then regular red varieties.
    72 Days
       4" pot $2.00  Ring of Fire are extremely hot pencil thin cayenne peppers that get about 4" long.
    60 Days



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    For more information, please contact:

    Alisa Weaver
    Vernon, British Columbia
    250-308-4570