PlantFiles: Sweet Pepper
Capsicum annuum 'Yummy Orange'

It would be hard to overpraise this plant. I grow over a dozen pepper varieties, amounting to about 150 plants, every year and "Yummy" is the only variety I never rotate out. The fruit is nearly perfect: beautiful and completely without blemish. As others have pointed out it is certainly sweet, but also possessing a depth of flavor most peppers lack. I don't typically like small peppers --- they tend to crack a lot, are a pain to process, an equal pain to pick, have a terrible seed-to-fruit ratio and taste like cardboard. This pepper is big enough to make slicing for stir-fry a reasonable choice and is nearly pith- and seed-free, making processing a breeze.

However, where this pepper truly shines is in the vigor of the plants. I have never --- repeat that: NEVER --- had one of these plants collapse (I can't say this about any other pepper I have trialed) nor has any branch ever snapped off, and this despite HUGE yields throughout the growing season. It is a gorgeous upright grower --- the rows look like miniature manicured shrubs. This erect habit makes harvest a cakewalk. Likewise, the plant handles the vicissitudes and extremes of summer in Minnesota like a champ. Last year aphids were a plague for all the starts, but Yummy came through, recovered, and produced like nothing had ever happened.

I can't recommend this pepper highly enough.

I grew 'Yummy' pepper for the first time this year- and will DEFINITELY grow more next year. Got my seed from Jung. My peppers are 2"-3" long, sort of blocky shaped, not shaped like a bell pepper, more like an over-sized jalapeno. The ripen to a beautiful orange color and are about the sweetest peppers I've ever grown. Truly a 'snack pepper', as you can easily eat them right out of the garden. Not many seeds inside.They've been a real hit w/my friends. We ate some just last night stuffed with chicken salad.

A small (2.5 x 1.5 inch) orange snack pepper.