Peppers Planned for 2020

It’s pepper seed time!  I decided that I would go the “all seed” route for the 2020 growing season.  Although I probably won’t be doing any actual planting of seeds for several more weeks, I have all my seeds ordered.  So what’s in store for 2020 in my new location?

Hot Cha Cha!

I don’t have any super-hot peppers planned for this year, but I do have some hot ones ordered!  Here’s the hot pepper seeds on the way:

• Purple Jalapeno:  Seeing as I am also growing a non-heat jalapeno, I wanted to make my spicy jalapeno a different color so I could tell the two apart.
• Bolivian Rainbow:   I grew this many years ago, then had a hard time finding it again.  Success!  This is mostly ornamental, but the peppers are definitely edible and quite hot.  I love the way these peppers have multiple colors of peppers on the bush all at once.
• Buena Mulata:  Another purple pepper.  This one is more like a cayenne pepper, and about the same heat.
• Tricked You Jalapeno:  This is the no-heat jalapeno.  I tried to grow the “Fooled You” a few years back, and I guess this one is the newer version.
• Numex Suave Orange:  Supposedly a no-heat habanero.  I am not sure that every pepper will be no-heat, so I will be careful when tasting the peppers.
• Aji de Sazonar:  Another no-heat pepper, this time more like a serrano in shape.  Supposed to be great for drying and grinding into a seasoning powder.
• Tobago Seasoning:  A no-heat scotch bonnet pepper.  Again, not sure that the heat will be absent from all peppers, but I imagine that the seeds and membranes will be what’s really hot.

A few more of the non-heat hot peppers than is usual for me, bit it will be really interesting to see how “no heat” the no heat peppers will be. Hmmm, now that I have all these listed out, I may hold off on either the Numex Suave Orange or the Tobago Seasoning until next year.

Cool It!

As to the sweet peppers, here’s the run-down:

• Chilly Chilli:  Just an ornamental pepper.  I seem to recall I tried this a few years back and didn’t have any luck, but I wanted a low-ish growing ornamental pepper that was safe to brush up against (i.e., no hot oils getting on my hands or clothes).
• Yum Yum Mix:  Mini bell peppers, kind of like the ones I’ve been seeing pop up in the grocery stores lately.
• Sweet Pickle:  Another ornamental, a lot like Bolivian Rainbow, but with a slightly larger pepper.  This one is like Chilly Chilli, supposed to be safe to brush up against, etc.
• Petit Marseillais:  Something like a cross between a bell pepper and a frying pepper, but more like the bell.  Supposed to be very sweet.
• Roumanian Sweet:  This is a bell pepper.  I grew it many years ago, it changes color from a pale greenish-white to purple to orange and then red.  It was quite tasty.

All in all, this should be an interesting year for peppers.

Planting Seeds

I have a couple new seed sprouting things I want to trial, so that post will be coming up (actually, probably more like a series of posts).