Growing Guides

The Banana pepper, also known as Hungarian Sweet Wax, is a long, tapered, waxy-skinned pepper that ripens from pale yellow through bright orange to red. It is sweet and very mild, ranging from zero to about 500 Scoville, with just...

Hungarian Hot Wax is a fast, cold-tolerant hot pepper with smooth, tapered, waxy fruit about 5 to 6 inches long. The peppers ripen from pale yellow through orange to red, with a variable heat of roughly 1,000 to 15,000 Scoville...

Golden California Wonder is the sunny-colored version of the classic heirloom bell: big, blocky, four-lobed fruit with thick, crisp walls that ripen from green to a rich golden-yellow. It carries zero heat and a mellow, sweet flavor, so it is...

California Wonder is the classic heirloom bell pepper: big, blocky, four-lobed fruit with thick, crisp walls that ripen from glossy green to sweet red. Introduced back in 1928, it stays a garden favorite because it is productive, reliable, and completely...

Cubanelle is the classic Italian frying pepper: long, tapered, thin-walled fruit that starts a pale light yellow-green and ripens to red. It is sweet and mild, with at most a whisper of warmth, and it fries up sweet and silky...

The Poblano is a large, heart-shaped chile with glossy, dark-green skin that ripens to a deep reddish brown. It is mild, roughly 1,000 to 2,000 Scoville, with a rich, earthy flavor and thick walls built for roasting and stuffing. This...

Big Jim is the legendary New Mexico chile bred for size, producing some of the longest pods of any pepper, commonly 8 to 12 inches. The meaty, mild-to-medium fruit ripens from green to red and rates only about 500 to...

The Hot Red Cherry is a compact, heavy-yielding pepper named for its small, round, cherry-shaped fruit. The peppers ripen to a glossy deep red and carry a mild to moderate heat of about 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville heat units, a...

The serrano is a small but fiery Mexican chile, several times hotter than a jalapeno at roughly 10,000 to 25,000 Scoville units. Its slim, 2-inch pods start bright green and ripen through orange to vivid red, with thin walls and...