Kitchen Garden Forum

While I'm happy with the ones I've grown, they aren't as tasty and fleshy as some I've eaten before.

What are your favourite sweet red (or other coloured) peppers?

I did grow a long pointy one, I think a Hungarian variety ages ago which was lovely, but haven't seen it since.

I don't want anything with heat in it as I have plenty of chillies.

Hi Plumpudding. I always grow the horn shaped ones now as they are so sweet, though they aren't quite as fleshy as the bell peppers (but this is a plus for me). They are versatile and freeze well too.

These past two years, I have grown Romano Mixed, (Fothergills) Also Corno di Torro mixed (Johnsons) There was another called Marconi Rosso (Fothergills) which was extremely prolific!! All of these are delicious and produce good sized peppers in red, yellow and orange.
Hope this helps.
Cheers!

Thanks Elaine, I'll put them on my list of seeds to order for next year. I've got some nice bell peppers, but seem to have grown rather too many chillies this year and when they are hot you only need half of one to make a bearable meal, so eight very productive plants is far too many. I know they freeze, but I've still got two bag fulls of Jalapeno and Rotoco to use up which will probably last another ten years!

So for the next few years it will be only sweet peppers.

After my great success with growing Marconi Rosso outdoors last year I've grown them again this year and think that they will probably now be the only variety I grow in future. I've grown various bell peppers in the past and had lots of fruit but mostly small ones although I agree they are slightly fleshier than the Marconi Rosso variety. However, as I grow more than we can immediately eat at any one time, I slice them and freeze them loose and then pack into bags so we can just take out whatever we need for cooking. I find there's no need to blanch them first and they freeze well for a year.