Packet Content (approx.): 20

Sweet Banana pepper is a Heritage variety, Also known as Hungarian Wax. Thin walled tapering fruit, 14-18 cm long, in pale yellow, ripening to a bright orange- yellow. Sweet flavour.

heirloom sweet pepper, sweet banana peppers are great for grilling, frying and stuffing. Sweet peppers are used for decorations, adding flavor, stuffing and grilling. Growing hot and sweet peppers too close together cross pollinates plants and can turn hot so allow 6-10 feet between them.

Start seeds indoors 6-8 weeks prior to the last frost date. Sow seeds ½in deep in cell pack containers, 1-2 seeds per cell, eventually leaving one plant per cell. Keep warm - germination takes 7-14 days at soil temperatures of 20-30C (75-80F). Grow plants warm and don't allow exposure to night temperatures that fall below 12C (55F) or this may stunt the plants.

Transplant as needed to 7.5cm (3in) pots and eventually to 12cm (5in) pots. Set out hardened transplants after all danger of frost and when the ground has thoroughly warmed in the spring. Set plants 38cm (15in) apart in rows 2 feet apart.