Peppers are one of the easiest crops to grow, virtually pest-free, and enormously versatile.
Slow Food's Ark of Taste includes these 7 heirloom peppers, which make up a diversified, hot-and-mild pepper garden:
Beaver Dam Pepper: mildly hot Hungarian heirloom. Elongated red peppers are very flavorful, great for stuffing.
Bull Nose Bell Pepper: Thomas Jefferson raised this sturdy, productive pepper
Chiltepin Chile: tiny wild pepper, indigenous to SW.
Datil: elongated yellow-orange peppers, signature ingredient in the local Minorcan cuisine of St. Augustine, FL. Wonderful for hot sauces. Hard to find!
Fish Pepper: mildly hot African-American heirloom, popular in Chesapeake Bay seafood restaurants. Variegated foliage and peppers make a color splash in your garden!
New Mexico Native Chile, Chimayo: long hot red chiles native to northern NM ~ rare and endangered!
Sheepnose Pimento: red fruits are thick-walled and juicy, very flavorful. Great for roasting and canning.
In addition to these Ark peppers, we recommend:
Alma Paprika
Anaheim
Caribbean Red Habanero: twice as hot as the standard orange!
Cayenne: long red peppers are very hot; great for drying as ristras!
Corno di Toro Rosso: classic Italian sweet
Habanero: the classic orange
Jalapeno: use green or red, great for stuffing or baking in breads, casseroles, etc
15-25 seeds per pack
Our yarns, nuts, and particularly our garden seeds, make perfect holiday gifts in synergy with our shared goals of environmental protection, sustainability, and food security.
Consider our wide range of heirloom vegetable, herb, and flower seeds as gifts or stocking stuffers this year ~ grow your own and promote genetic diversity!