Tangerine Pimiento Sweet Pepper
We like our peppers red or yellow and sweet,
but I'm not usually willing to put in the time to start them indoors in
early spring. They seem to be more tender than tomatoes, and
unable to be started in a cold frame. That means I direct sow
peppers right around our spring frost free date, and hope some will
have time to ripen all the way before the first fall frost. Last
year, we didn't have much luck --- I gave
away grocery bags full of big, beautiful green peppers right before the
frost, but only got to eat a few ripe ones.
This year, we tried another variety which may prove to be our new
favorite. Tangerine Pimiento Sweet Pepper is extremely early
producing --- we've been eating the sweet, orange fruits since early
September despite direct-seeding them at the end of April. The
peppers are small, which is probably how they're able to ripen so
early, and are held upright so the bottoms point at the sky. I
can't find any data on whether Tangerine Pimiento Sweet Pepper is an
heirloom, but I'm saving some seeds anyway and hoping to have an
equally good pepper season next year.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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