2012 pepper list

[chancethegardener]

Here is the pepper seeds I have planted for this year:

Aci Ilica (Turkish)
Aci sivri (Turkish)
Banana
Corbaci sivri (Turkish)
Jalapeno
Kandil bell (Turkish)
Marconi red
Mini red bell
Nardello
Padron
Peppercini
Poblano
Red cheese
Shi★★★★o
Tam jalapeno
Tatli sivri
Tunisian Baklouti
Yolo wonder


I purchased Aci sivri from Seeds of Change in 2010. Unfortunately, I have found out that they don't offer this variety anymore. The problem is I lost the plants I was growing last year to a disease and I couldn't save seeds because of this. I am being very cautious this year and hopefully I will be able to grow the fruits and save some seeds this year. This is a really beautiful pepper.

[OneDahlia]

Cool! I'm planning to grow corbaci this year, and I'll probably order aci sivri. Sand Hill Preservation lists it.

Looks like aci ilica is more bitter? What do you use that one for? Paste?

How is tatli sivri different from corbaci?

[chancethegardener]

That's good to know that Sand Hill Preservation has it even though there are always people to trade seeds. I purchased Aci Ilica and Tatli Sivri seeds when I went to Turkey last December. It's possible that Aci Ilica-Aci sivri and Tatli Sivri-Corbaci are the same plants. For sure they look alike based on the pictures on the seed packages. I will grow all and tell you the differences.

By the way sivri in Turkish means pointy/long in English within this context; aci means hot; tatli means sweet; corbaci means soup restaurant (it's possible that this pepper is commonly served in soup restaurants in Anatolia); Ilica is the name of a town on the west coast of Turkey.

I think you can use Aci Ilica in salads (specifically in shepherd's salad), in stews, mixed with stir fried meat etc.

Shepherd salad is easy to make:
- Cucumber diced (preferably a cucumber variety similar to Green Finger)
- Tomato diced (would be good if the tomato is not too sweet)
- Aci sivri or Corbaci pepper diced
- Parsley sliced
- White onion diced
- Mix them altogether and add lots of lemon juice and olive oil (preferably extra virgin)
- Add salt
I love this salad and looking forward to make one with my own produce.

Also, one cucumber variety that would definitely go in this salad and that I have been desperately looking for is Cengelkoy cucumber which is hard to find in bazaar in Turkey these days (a battle lost against hybrids).

[OneDahlia]

Thanks -- I knew some of those definitions but not all. Corbaci, from corba -- I should have thought of that.

And yum, love shepherd's salad. Good luck finding the Cengelkoy cucumber. I'm not getting fancy with cucumbers this year, since the cucumber beetle wilt killed all of mine pretty quickly last year. It's wilt-resistant cukes for me now.

[Moshou]

If I remember well, 'corbaci' could mean soup, a kind of turkish soup with many vegetables.By its name, corbaci pepper is often used to flavouring this 'corbaci'.

I like this sheppard salad to. I lived many years ago very close to a Turkish comunity and saw people enjoing to dipp fresh bred in it.

If you add breed cheese results Bulgarian salad
Then, if you add sliced bell pepper and replace parsley with celery, results a Romanian salad.

Try all of them, you wont be sorry.