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(Capsicum annuum) Aci Sivri is an excellent cayenne-like short season chili originally from Turkey and introduced in the '90s to the US by the old 'Seeds of Change' seed company. An excellent and productive variety for short-growing season areas, its tall frame hangs heavy with long, slender fruits that ripen...

(Capsicum annuum) The “Espalette” chili pepper (Piment d'Espelette in French, Ezpeletako biperra in Basque) is a culinary icon of Basque Country with a production area limited to 10 villages nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains. The pepper is the first and currently the only spice in France to...

(Capsicum chinense) We are firmly on the Biquinho bandwagon. This little pepper from Brazil packs a lot of flavor into a little package. Marble-sized fruits with a pointed blossom end (biquinho is Portuguese for “little beak”) have all the tropical fruity flavor of the chinense peppers (habanero family) but with barely...

(Capsicum chinense) We are firmly on the Biquinho bandwagon. This little pepper from Brazil packs a lot of flavor into a little package. Marble-sized fruits with a pointed blossom end (biquinho is Portuguese for “little beak”) have all the tropical fruity flavor of the chinense peppers (habanero family) but with...

(Capsicum anuum) 'Buena Mulata' is a stunner of a cayenne-type that bears prolifically on tall plants. Fruits start deep purple and morph through a rainbow of creamy yellow, salmon, and orange before fully maturing to red. Plants are quite ornamental, hanging with fruits of all maturity stages simultaneously. Depending on...

(Capsicum baccatum) A member of the Aji family of hot peppers native to Bolivia, Criolla Sella is an excellent producer of small (2.5” x 3/8”) golden orange fruits in abundance. The heat is middling and the flavor amazingly rich and citrusy. It can be used fresh in salsas, fermented or...

(Capsicum annuum) One of the most productive field hot pepper we’ve grown in the PNW for 10 years running. Maturing from glossy black to a glowing garnet red color, it is perfect for ristras and fresh use in place of the slightly spicier jalapenos. Bears fruit weeks before all our...

(Capsicum annuum) A dangerous pepper for the disorganized gardener, Hot Portugal is completely indistinguishable in all ways but one from its fabulously sweet field mate, Jimmy Nardello: heat. I can’t tell you how many times over the years we have stood together over a pepper plant, muttering, “I don’t remember either...YOU...

(Capsicum annuum) Brought back from South America by Spanish monks in the 16th century and grown in the village of Padron in Galicia ever since, these smoky little numbers about drown us every summer we grow them! Grown outdoors, the tall, bushy plants are lush, verdant, and loaded. We've learned early...

(Capsicum annuum) This beautiful and wonderfully productive chili was bred by the pioneering Austrian organic seed company ReinSaat. 'Sarit Gat,' meaning "Long Yellow," was bred from a diverse population of yellow chilis sourced from a farmer in Kosovo by ReinSaat breeder Reinhild Frech-Emmelmann, who then selected for color, uniformity, taste, and...

(Capsicum baccatum) We’ve heard a lot about this pepper over the past couple of years. An aji type bred in the epicenter of chili biodiversity…Wales (!), sugar rush has garnered a strong following for its beautiful color, spicy but manageable heat, and, most notably, its very sweet and citrusy flesh....

(Capsicum annuum) Named after the beautiful Transylvanian city of the same name in north-central Romania (which translates to “market on the Mures,” the local river), this hot paprika pepper has grown to be a farm favorite. An oblong 3.5”x1/2” chili with the thin-walled texture and heat of cayenne, it ripens...