(Bell Pepper, Giant Marconi Pepper, Sweet Pepper)

A 2001 All-America Selections winner, 'Giant Marconi' impressed judges with its vigor, high yields, large fruit size and complex sweet flavor. This cultivar produces fruits for harvest 70 to 72 days after planting from transplants. The narrow, 6- to 8-inch-long (15 to 20 cm) fruits are green and ripen to scarlet red. They are produced on large, bushy plants. These peppers can be eaten green or red, raw or cooked and have a slightly smoky sweet flavor. Fully mature peppers are ideal for roasting.

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(Bell Pepper, Golden Calwonder Pepper)

Some believe 'Golden Calwonder' produces the most delicious yellow sweet bell peppers around. This classic 1948 introduction is just like the old-time favorite 'Calwonder' except its fruits are yellow rather than red when mature. Peppers are ready for harvest around 70 to 75 days after planting from seedlings. They are initially lime green and ripen to deep golden yellow. The blocky, four-lobed fruits offer a mild, super sweet flavor perfect for fresh eating or cooking.

Native to tropical...

An heirloom pepper from Mexico, 'Guajillo' produces long, slender, medium-hot fruits that are ideal for salsas and pickles.

First cultivated and selected by Native Americans thousands of years ago, peppers are bushy, brittle-stemmed annual vegetables with thin oval leaves and small five-petaled flowers. The dull-white blooms of 'Guajillo' are followed by pendent, narrowly conical, 5-inch (13-cm) fruits with thin, pungently flavored, translucent flesh that ripens from green to brilliant red. The...

(Bell Pepper, Sweet Pepper)

Anticipate a healthy, abundant crop of pointed but blocky sweet peppers on the Russian variety, 'Healthy'. About 70 days after planting robust seedlings, these peppers are ready for harvest. The wedge-shaped peppers are initially yellow-green but then turn from orange to orange-red. They are crisp and tasty at all stages but sweetest when harvested fully mature. This variety is disease and rot resistant and even will produce fruit if grown in partial sun.

Native to tropical America, these...

(Holiday Time Ornamental Pepper, Ornamental Pepper)

Developed for use as a holiday container plant, this 1980 All-America Selections Winner produces quantities of small round showy peppers that change color as they mature. Although its fiery-hot fruits are edible, 'Holiday Time' is used exclusively as an ornamental. It was introduced by the University of Connecticut in 1980.

First cultivated and selected by Native Americans thousands of years ago, peppers are bushy, brittle-stemmed annual vegetables with thin oval leaves and small five-petaled...

(Chile Negro, Holy Mole Chile, Poblano Pepper)

Developed with molé sauce in mind, this 2007 All-America Selections Winner bears quantities of mildly spicy, chocolate-colored peppers on tall, vigorous, disease-resistant plants.

First cultivated and selected by Native Americans thousands of years ago, peppers are bushy, brittle-stemmed annual vegetables with thin oval leaves and small five-petaled flowers. The dull-white blooms of 'Holy Mole' are followed by long, slender, 8-inch (20-cm) fruits with thin, tangy-flavored flesh that ripens from...

(Pepperoncini Pepper)

Prized for their vibrantly flavored and colored fruits, peppers are annuals or short-lived perennials native to tropical America. 'Italian Pepperoncini' produces slender, yellow-green, wrinkled, mildly hot peppers on bushy plants. The peppers mature to bright orange-red. Flowering and fruiting occur from late spring into fall in areas with cold winters, and year round where winters are warm.

Native to tropical America, peppers require fertile, well drained soil, full sun, and warmth for good...

(Marbles Ornamental Pepper, Ornamental Pepper)

A cherry pepper well suited for both ornamental and culinary purposes, this compact cultivar bears small, round, relatively mild-flavored fruits that change color as they mature. Like all culinary peppers, cherry peppers (known botanically as the Cerasiforme group) trace their origin to the American tropics, where they have been cultivated since pre-Columbian times.

The bushy, calf-high plants bear thin, narrowly oval, medium-green leaves on stiff brittle stems. Inconspicuous white flowers...

(Masquerade Ornamental Pepper, Ornamental Pepper)

The ornamental pepper 'Masquerade' produces upright clusters of showy flame-shaped chilis that change color as they mature. Although its fiery-hot fruits are edible, this cultivar was developed for ornamental use.

First cultivated and selected by Native Americans thousands of years ago, peppers are bushy, brittle-stemmed annual vegetables with thin oval leaves and small five-petaled flowers. The dull-white blooms of 'Masquerade' are followed by erect, conical, 2.5-inch (6-cm) fruits that ripen...

(Medusa Ornamental Pepper, Ornamental Pepper)

The bright red, orange or yellow peppers of 'Medusa' lend outstanding bedding color to the summer and pre-frost fall garden. This ornamental pepper variety is compact and produce lots of colorful fruits that are spicy when eaten but tend to be grown for looks rather than flavor.

Peppers originate from the tropical Americas, so they are well adapted to heat, humidity and some drought. They are annuals that produce bushy plants with rigid, brittle stems and thin, often broad, dark green leaves....