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Ghost Pepper Pepper: How Hot It Gets, and What to Do With It

Ghost Pepper Pepper: When to Plant the Tomatoes That Ripen All at Once

Ghost Pepper pepper is classified as a hot pepper by Clemson Cooperative Extension, which lists it among its recommended garden cultivars.

Sweet Sunset Pepper: How Hot It Gets, and What to Do With It

Sweet Sunset Pepper: When to Plant the Tomatoes That Ripen All at Once

Sweet Sunset is a compact pepper plant whose fruit shifts color as it ripens, from pale yellow to orange and finally deep red, according to NC State…

Sweet orange Pepper: How Hot It Gets, and What to Do With It

Sweet orange Pepper: When to Plant the Tomatoes That Ripen All at Once

Sweet Orange is grown for one trait above all: a mild, sugary flavor that NC State Extension describes simply as “sugary sweet flavor.” That single line…

Mad Hatter Pepper: How Hot It Gets, and What to Do With It

Mad Hatter Pepper: When to Plant the Tomatoes That Ripen All at Once

The Mad Hatter pepper isn’t sorted into a heat category by the two university sources behind this page, and that omission is itself the answer worth…

Hot Returns Pepper: How Hot It Gets, and What to Do With It

Hot Returns Pepper: When to Plant the Tomatoes That Ripen All at Once

Hot Returns pepper is a spicy pepper cultivar described by NC State Extension as producing “spicy, upright ornamental/culinary pods.” There’s no…

Tula Pepper: How Hot It Gets, and What to Do With It

Tula Pepper: When to Plant the Tomatoes That Ripen All at Once

Tula is a jalapeno-type pepper, recommended for home gardens by Clemson Cooperative Extension’s Home & Garden Information Center.

Early Jalapeno Pepper: How Hot It Gets, and What to Do With It

Early Jalapeno Pepper: When to Plant the Tomatoes That Ripen All at Once

The Early Jalapeno pepper, according to NC State Extension, produces “compact, medium-hot fruits” in about 60 to 65 days from transplant.

Cubanelle Pepper: How Hot It Gets, and What to Do With It

Cubanelle Pepper: When to Plant the Tomatoes That Ripen All at Once

The Cubanelle pepper is a sweet, thin-walled frying pepper that Clemson Cooperative Extension lists among its recommended banana pepper types for home…

Banana Supreme Pepper: How Hot It Gets, and What to Do With It

Banana Supreme Pepper: When to Plant the Tomatoes That Ripen All at Once

Banana Supreme is a banana pepper, the mild, elongated, yellow-to-orange type sold for pickling and fresh slicing, not a hot pepper.

Growing Pumpkins in Northwest Territories: Will They Ripen in Time?

Northwest Territories growers get one real shot at a ripe pumpkin, and it hinges on when the flowers open, not when the seed goes into the ground.

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