The Long Island Seed Project

Fingerling Peppers

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Introducing the Sweet Fingerling Pepper

Auust, 2007

Sweet Fingerling Peppers

We saw these little sweet peppers imported from Mexico in a local market a few years ago and began to grow them, increasing the seed stock little by little and we mean that!  These sweet little fruits don't contain many seeds; in fact, a small percentage of the fruit are seedless.  The plants are small growing but produce a dozen or more ittle fruit.  We have a complete set of colors;  red, orange and yellow.  Each color starts out green and then change into their mature color quickly.  We produced some seed of these last year and the year before for the NOFA farm participants in the Organic Seed Partnership.  The feedback on these was great.  "We could sell as many as we can raise, our customers love these". 

  


Long Island Bell and Little Bell

  

Bell Peppers are not our best performing peppers but we have been growing a mix for many years.  We had some loaded plants this year in Long Island Bell Mix;  including a traditional green to red bell that had 11 nice, full sized bell peppers. 

Another kind of bell pepper that appeared this year was Little Bell, a very productive yellow to red kind developed from Gypsy and in the 2-3 inch range.  While the peppers are smaller than conventional bells, they are free of fruit rot (phytophthora) and sun scald and tend to be very productive.  We expect great things from this little open-pollinated gem.
 


 
Last Modified:  August, 2007