Bullnose Sweet Pepper
70 days to maturity each packet contains approximately 10 seeds.
Bullnose sweet pepper. Bullnose sweet pepper large sweet bell pepper good flavor crisp peppers ripen from green to red. 55 80 days from transplant. Do not confuse this pepper with the white lakes pepper or feherozon peppers. Beautiful blocky 3 4 inch peppers are a lovely cream color.
They have a nice mild sweet flavor and ripen to a beautiful reddish orange. It produces loads of fruit from early summer until frost on very compact dwarf plants. Still grown at jefferson s monticello the variety has a delectably mild sweet taste and thick walls. Bull nosed peppers popular in early america are due for a renaissance.
Productive and sturdy plants. Annuum 25 seeds per packet. Likely introduced to north america in the 1700s. It was introduced to north america most likely from the west indies by the early 1700s.
Beautiful blocky peppers on very compact dwarf plants. The original bull nose pepper was popular in early america and was grown by thomas jefferson. The bullnose pepper capsicum annuum turns red as it ripens and is renowned for the blocky shape crisp texture and excellent taste. It is still grown at monticello today.
The albino bullnose pepper originates from the usa. Sweet bullnose sweet bell pepper certified organic seeds and other peppers seeds for sale directly from the farmer. It is a sweet blocky pepper with thicker walls then a regular bell pepper. Choose a sweet variety that s been in the americas since the time of thomas jefferson.
We isolate sweet peppers by at least 200 feet to prevent crossing. The sweet bell pepper was grown as early as 1681 by enslaved africans in panama. Delicious good sized fruit is great in salads or for. Jefferson and more likely date back to the bull nose of mid to late 1800s.
This pepper is a dwarf type plant and wont get much taller then 2 feet. Crisp fruits ripen from green to red with an excellent flavor. Thomas jefferson grew this bull nosed pepper in his garden after it arrived here from india in the 1700s. Bernard mcmahon included bell peppers in the american gardener s calendar 1806 and thomas jefferson recorded bull nose pepper in his 1812 garden calendar.
In 1812 thomas jefferson recorded bull nose peppers in his garden calendar at monticello. This is one of the first medium large bell type peppers although this strain may be larger than the strain grown by mr. They go from bone in color to orange to red when fully mature. I haven t observed any crossing in our seed.