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I got another big picking of sweet peppers this morning. This has been going on for weeks, and there are still plenty of green peppers on the plants.
These are Gypsy, Carmen, Flexum, Sweet Spot, and Big Red peppers, all grown from critter's seed co-op this spring.
The best, as always, is Gypsy. If I could only grow one variety of sweet pepper, it would be Gypsy. They bear early, heavy, and continuosly on compact plants, the flavor is great, and the peppers are big and almost as wide as bell peppers for stuffing.
A close runner up is Carmen. The plants are bigger than Gypsy and they start bearing a little later, but they're productive and the flavor when ripe may be even a little sweeter than Gypsy.
I tried Flexum for the first time this year, and compared with Gypsy and Carmen I think it's a dud. Flexum is productive enough and the plants are small like Gypsy, but it's very late-ripening. It's now four months since transplanting to the garden and I've only had a few ripe peppers off Flexum. The plants are still loaded with unripe peppers (as are Gypsy and Carmen), but we've been enjoying ripe peppers off the others for many weeks now.
I'm not too impressed with Sweet Spot either. It's a good variety, it's just not in the same league as Gypsy and Carmen, in my opinion.
I grew two Big Red plants this year, and we've had a half dozen ripe peppers off them, with that many green ones still on the plants. That's just a small fraction of the production I'm getting from the non-bell sweet peppers, but it's the best I've ever done in growing bells. Here's today's picking, the largest peppers in this photo are about 10" long:
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