BELL and ROUND

Albino Bullnose    $3.00
65-70 days. Compact plants produce lovely, cream-colored, slightly pointed bell-shaped fruits that ripen to orange-red. Outstandingly productive in our trials.

California Wonder   $3.00
70-75 days. An excellent green bell pepper. Nice size and very good yield. A popular old-time variety that holds its own against modern types as well as heirlooms of more rarified pedigree.

Canary Bell    $3.00
70 days. Superior sweet pepper, thick-walled with bright yellow color.  Sets early and produces all summer. Exceptional flavor.

Carmagnola Rosso   $3.00 
75 days.  Large oxblood-red bell.   Ideal for roasting or stuffing.  Slightly earlier than Quadrato d' Asti Rosso. One of several new offerings originally furnished by long-time customer and Seed Savers Exchange member Ronald Dombrow. Grown from imported Italian seed.

Charleston Belle  $3.00
70 days. The first nematode-resistant bell pepper. Large, beautiful fruit are smooth and of good quality. A great pepper for the south and any area where nematodes are a major problem. Attractive, compact plants produce fairly early. Developed by the USDA at Charleston, South Carolina.

Chinese Giant  $3.00 
75 days. Gorgeous green fruits ripening to red, reaching to 6 inches long by 4- to 5 inches across. Very thick walled and sweet. Yet plants are compact and bushy--very striking in the garden! A Burpee introduction circa 1900.

Emerald Giant    $3.00
78 days. Large, blocky bells have thick, sweet flesh. Dark green fruit turn red when ripe. Vigorous plants give heavy yields. A good variety for the south. Developed in 1963.

Golden Cal Wonder   $3.00
75 days. Productive like regular Cal Wonder, but this one ripens to a bright golden-yellow. Elegant in salads or other dishes alongside green, red, and purple peppers. Reliable cropper in the North.

King of the North   $3.00
57-68 days—Bull-nose type, elongated bells reaching  6 inches long by 4 inches wide, tapering slightly and with medium-thick walls. Tolerates cold weather better than most varieties. Prolific, sprawling plants. Especially valuable in short-season areas, but of great usefulness wherever very early sweet peppers are desired.

Mini-Red Bell    $3.00
60 days—Perfect little miniature bells, fruits being only about 1.5 inches tall and wide. Thick-walled fruits ripen to a deep red. Productive plants to 2 feet tall. Ideal stuffed, making very unusual hors d'ouvres.

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Orange Sun   $3.00  
80 days. Beautiful bell peppers are a glowing cheerful orange in color. The thick flesh is intensely sweet and fruity. Makes a nice, large bell that is a joy to behold, whether in the garden or on the table!

Paradicsom Alaku Sarga   $3.00
A spectacular pepper from Hungary.  Round fruits to 3 inches in diameter, flattened and deeply ribbed. This pepper has sweet, incredibly thick walls that stay crisp. The compact, productive plants are loaded with bright yellow-orange fruits. We always grow this superior variety as it is one of our very favorites, year in and year out.

Purple Beauty   $3.00
75 days. Purple peppers are always a favorite, as they are so colorful. This variety produces loads of beautiful bells on compact, bushy plants. Crisp texture and mild, sweet flavor makes this one popular with everyone. Purple ripening to red.

Quadrato d' Asti Giallo   $3.00
80 days. The giant yellow Quadrato bell pepper. The huge fruit are a favorite. Beautiful and blocky, with very thick walls; the flavor is outstanding--sweet and rich! This Italian variety gives very heavy yields. This superb pepper is a real winner!

Quadrato d' Asti Rosso   $3.00 
80 days. Very thick brilliant red flesh. The fruit are huge. Delicious rich-sweet taste. Excellent for frying, salads, or stuffing. One of the largest red bells. Beautiful and blocky. A really choice variety. Produces large yields. Very often seen in the markets of Italy. Superb!

Red Cheese   $3.00 
75-80 days. Our very favorite sweet pepper at Abundant Acres. Not quite a bell-type, these are more round. They look like a medium size tomato 3-4 inches across. Thich-walled, sweet, rich-tasting, they're good any way you use a sweet pepper. But we relish them as stuffed peppers. Productive for us right up to frost.

Sweet Chocolate    $3.00 
75 days. A bell that starts out the color of milk chocolate, turning red when fully ripe. A slighty earlier variety that does well in northern climates also. Medium-sized fruits abundantly produced on rambling plants that might require some support. More-or-less a bell pepper.

NON-BELL

Aconcagua    $3.00 
 70-75 days. Long fruits to 10 inches, starting yellow-green and ripening to red. Plants to 30 inches. Very full-flavored sweet pepper. Exceptionally good for frying or roasting. Productive in our 2006 trial garden.

Alma Paprika   $3.00
70-80 days. Thick-walled, round fruits produced abundantly all season. Excellent for drying and grinding into paprika powder. The plants make a brave show in the garden, with the cream-colored fruits ripening through orange and finally to red. Compact plants in our 2009 garden.

Çorbaci    $3.00 
60-89 days. Also called Sari Tatli Sivri in Turkey, where it has been grown since at least 1900. Very long sweet pepper, shaped like a Turkish scimitar, 7" long and 1/2" wide, sometimes taking on a corkscrew shape, which is quite unique and exceptionally attractive. Exceptionally prolific as well, averaging over 90 fruits per plant in one University of California trial, and beating 28 other varieties! Sufficiently thick-walled to serve as a frying pepper, yet thin-walled enough to dry well. Makes positively outrageous chili ristras!

Giallo de Cuneo    $3.00  NEW for 2012
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Golden Treasure   $3.00
80-100 days. A fine Italian heirloom. Ripens to a rich yellow-gold, tapered, two-lobed fruit to 9 inches, having fairly thick flesh and very thin skin. Excellent for roasting, frying or fresh eating.

Jimmy Nardello Sweet   $3.00
80-90 days. Introduced by Seed Savers Exchange. Original seed provided by the late Jimmy Nardello, Naugatuk, Connecticut, whose family brought the seeds from the village of Ruoti, Italy, in 1887. Compact, 24-inch plants produce loads of 10-12 inch long, slender, crinkly fruits that are fine for frying.  A very popular variety.

Marconi, Golden   $3.00
80-90 days. A late Italian pepper with beautiful, big, yellow, 7", tapering fruit; very sweet, superb for frying or fresh use. This wonderful heirloom is delicious and mild. 

Marconi, Purple    $3.00  NEW for 2012
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Marconi, Red    $3.00
70-85 days. Another Italian variety. Fruits to 12-inches long, 3-inches across, sweet, thin-skinned, great for frying. We've often enjoyed these roasted and peeled, and served as a side dish with barbeque or a roast. Exceptional production in our 2009 garden, fraught as it was with cool temperatures and excessive rainfall. Now a staple variety here and one we will never willingly be without.

Melrose    $3.00
This is a superb heirloom frying pepper, brought from Italy long ago. The 4" fruit turn brilliant red, with flavor that is rich and very sweet. Great fried or fresh, a true Italian variety that seems to have been widely grown in the Chicago area. 

Pepperoncini, Golden Greek   $3.00 
65 days. Moderately thin-walled fruits are harvested at about 3 inches in length and used mainly for pickling. At this stage they are an appealing green-gold in hue, wrinkled somewhat, and tapering to a blunt end reminiscent of a tiny bell pepper. This is the variety usually seen in commercial pickled pepperoncini. Produced lavishly on very short, sprawling plants.

Red Belgian    $3.00
80 days. 3-4" fruits are wedge-shaped. Fruit starts out ivory to pale yellow and ripens to a deep red, but is often hidden beneath the dense foliage. An especially fine-flavored sweet pepper. Very compact, dainty plants.

Rosso a Cornetto da Appendere   $3.00  NEW for 2012
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Soroksari   $3.00  
75 days.  Robust plants produce medium sized prism-shaped fruits.  Yellow-orange turning to red-orange when fully ripe.  Sweet flesh.

Stavros Greek Pepperoncini  $3.00  
75 days. Reputed to be the finest pepperoncini available.  This Greek heirloom produces medium-early light green peppers that are elongated and slighty ribbed. Flesh is sweet and slightly spicy.  A rare find grown from imported seed.

Tequila Sunrise   $3.00
70 days—Gorgeous yellow-orange fruits look like glossy miniature carrots. Frequently reaching 6 inches in length the peppers carry a distinctive transverse fold near the stem end. Thick-walled fruits are a delight, sliced into rings in salads. A serious multi-tasker, grown in containers on the patio or deck where its beauty can be appreciated!

Thai Long Sweet    $3.00
Light-green fruit are about 5-6" long, with a tapered and pointed frying-pepper shape. Great for grilling or frying, this pepper is very popular in Thailand. We are happy to offer this rare and delicious variety. Outstanding vigor and productivity in our 2007 garden. Robust plants.