what sweet peppers are people growing

[kittykat8]

what sweet peppers are people growing, and where have they bought them from.


marion

[VictoriaJS]

Hi Marion,

This year I am growing Corno di Torro, Corno Rosso and Eves Apple.
I grew Corno Rosso last year and Corno di Torro the year before and I have found them both delicious and bountiful. There is a possibility that they are one and the same variety but I am not 100% sure.

I get a lot of my seeds form Simpsons and some from T & M.

Regards
Victoria

[elsie-scot]

New ones this year- California Wonder from LIdl or Aldi. Have some sweet chocolate and king of the north left over from last year from real seeds

[taff]

Saved seeds from bought redpeppers, just to try, saved seed from similar italian peppers, Atris F1, Duchy Originals [sale on last year], and I think pepper topepo from seeds of italy.

[Magiccat1978]

I'm growing seeds saved from a shop bought sweet pepper - just to see if I can, also Corno di toro (cant remember where I bought these ) some Wilkinsons own brand Sweet mini red and sweet chocolate ( from ebay )

[Flummery]

Seeds from bought sweet long Italian peppers. Done it before and they are through from a sowing a week ago. Pic on me blog!

[sagegreen]

Will be growing California Wonder - good, reliable variety, and seeds free from GYO!!

[Alison]

Lipstick - originally from Real Seeds, now saved
Orange Bell - Real Seeds
Sunnybrook - Real Seeds, new this year
Redskin dwarf ones - can't remember, posibly T&M, grew them last year on the window ledge for a nice early crop

Re Californian Wonder, I don't like them much as I find they're rather tasteless and poor cropping so it shows that different people like different plants.

[Newbie]

Tried sweet peppers for the first time last year (can't remember variety without looking it up) and not sure i'm going to try them again this year. They took ages & ages & ages to grow to a decent size & even longer to ripen - everything else was finshed by the time they were ready. Also they were totally plagued by whitefly, absolutley covered despite french marigolds being planted underneath, regular blastings with the hosepipe & finally squirtings with bug spray

[chris]

I've got a few big banana seeds from a member here via the seed swap, and I'm also growing world beater (I think that may be an f1, not sure)

[selfraising]

I'm growing California Wonder, Romana Mix, Red Grill Pepper and Yellow Grill Pepper.

[kernowyon]

right here goes

PCR - sweet pointy pepper, (self saved from last year)
Ilka - sweet apple type
Stiplava - apple type
Slovakia - pointy pepper
topboy - squat round
jova - squat round
patrice - giant yellow

all above bought from Tescos and Carefour in Slovakia

Padron
big banana

from T & M

plus 10 different chilli types.

[sewer rat]

Approx 100 California Wonder ( cost 58p from Lidl), though about 80 of these are destined for the local Garden Centre

[Pies]

Rubens had a great crop last year

Pepper : Peperone Rubens (Sweet) (Seeds)

[mcsee]

I have a few late ones down:-

Corno di Toro Rosso
Turkish Cappia Pepper
Gogosari Pepper
Ariane Hybrid Capsicum

All from self saved seed.