Let's get started - sweet peppers...favorite varieties

[nctomatoman]

Since moving to NC, we've found that peppers do best in pots. And, slender or frying peppers yield far more than bells.

So, given that, here are my favorite sweet peppers -

Lipstick, Super Shepherd, Sweet Hungarian, Gypsy hybrid, Orange Bell, Golden Marconi.

One of the most beautiful peppers I've grown is Islander (JSS, very similar to Bluebird, Stokes). It ripens from a pale yellow to incredible lollipop lavendar - then to orange, then red. I worked at dehybridizing it a few years ago, and ended up with 5 distinct types - ivory ripening orange red, ivory ripening butter yellow, green ripening black purple, lavendar ripening red, and lavendar ripening yellow. For whatever reason, I suspended this project - wonder if my 1997/8 saved seeds are still any good (I even named 4 of the selections).

One of the best flavored bells is the Chocolate Bell that Stokes sells - it is quite expensive. I've not grown it in some time.