DESCRIPTION:
NAME: Pimento Pepper
OTHER COMMON NAMES: Pimiento Pepper / Cheese Pepper / Frying Pepper / Roasting Pepper / Sweet Pimento Pepper / Italianelle Pepper
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Capsicum Annuum
COLOR: Red Peppers
PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost
PLANT HEIGHT: 18 - 24"
PLANT SPACING: 12 - 18"
HARVEST: 80 Days
LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun
SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average
QUANTITY: 100 Seeds
OTHER: These sweet Pimento Peppers will turn from green to red at maturity. The plants will produce a high yield (around 30 peppers per plant) of heart shaped peppers that measure 3 - 4” long by 2 - 2 ½” wide. These peppers can be enjoyed fresh, cooked, pickled, stuffed & baked, or canned. They are commonly used in salads, meats, vegetable dishes, for stuffing olives, and is the pepper used in pepper jack cheese.