Carolina Reaper
The Carolina Reaper is a super-hot chili pepper that held the Guinness World Record for the hottest pepper from 2013 until 2023. It was developed by Ed Currie of the PuckerButt Pepper Company by crossbreeding a Pakistani Naga pepper with a Red Habanero.
Cayenne, Red Flame
Big, productive hybrid plants produce extra long cayenne peppers that dry quickly. They are a bright crimson and have a sweet-hot flavor.
Fatalli
Intensely hot, golden-orange, tapered fruits originally from central Africa. Wrinkled fruits have a delightful, citrus-like flavor before the heat sets in. The earliest ripening of the habanero types we grow.
Ghost
The ghost pepper (Bhut Jolokia) is one of the world's hottest chili peppers, known for its intense heat and complex, fruity, and smoky flavor, making it a popular ingredient for hot sauces, salsas, curries, and marinades.
Habanada
A truly heatless habanero! Bred by well-known organic plant breeder Michael Mazourek, Habanada is the product of natural breeding techniques. These exceptional snacking peppers have all of the fruity and floral notes of the habanero without any spice (even the seeds are sweet and add to the flavor). This exotic pepper plant is short and compact.
Habanero, Hot Paper Lantern
A true habanero that’s earlier and more productive than other strains! Beautiful, long, red, wrinkled, lantern-shaped fruits measure 3 to 4”. Thin walls allow for drying, but fresh have a lovely tropical flower scent. Grown from seed in high quality soil.
Habanero, Red Savina
A habanero type that has been selectively bred to be larger, heavier, and with thicker walls. Very hot. Plants are lovely, easy to grow and productive. An excellent pepper for sauces.
Habanero, Helios
Extra-early hybrid habanero. Fruits avg. 2¾ x 1½" and are very hot. Much earlier, higher yielding, and with bigger fruits than the standard heirloom habanero. Good yield potential, even in northern regions. Medium-large upright plants.
Hatch Valley Anaheim, Spitfire
A hybrid Anaheim type that performs well in the north. The fruits are large and thick-walled, making them suitable for frying and stuffing. But our favorite use for this very mildly spicy pepper is to bulk up chili. The very large plants have good leaf cover to protect the fruits from sun-scald. Peppers are 7" long x 2" wide, with plentiful fruit borne on large sturdy plants.
Hungarian Hot Wax
Yellow hot pepper with 5½ x 1½” smooth, waxy fruits tapering to a point. Easy to stuff and to peel after roasting; thick-fleshed for frying. Its sunset-ripening peppers change from yellow to orange to red, and make the prettiest pickled peppers. Widely adapted and productive, even in cool weather.
Jalapeño, Black Magic
A unique deep, dark green, almost black, hybrid jalapeño that has a mildly spicy flavor with a floral note. Highly productive, the medium sized plants will produce an impressive number of 3½” thick-walled fruits. If left unharvested, fruits will eventually mature to red. The gorgeous peppers stand out from the medium green plants making for easy harvest.
Jalapeño, Jalafuego
Productive, vigorous plants yield multitudes of extra smooth, dark green fruit. Highly disease resistant plants tolerate and produce through many climatic variables. Extra-long fruits make plants perfect for growing conditions that may cause fruit to shorten. Fruit are resistant to cracking, have wonderful flavor, and have the perfect amount of heat.
Jalapeño, Whopper
Beautiful hybrid plant grows to 30" and gets loaded with these huge, juicy, extra thick-walled 4-5" jalapeño peppers.
Jalapeño, Yellow Arriba
High-yielding yellow jalapeño. Pale yellow to start, the 3½–4" long fruits transition to an orangey red, finally ripening to bright red. Though typically eaten yellow, fruits can be consumed at any stage of ripeness. Medium-size plants have high yield potential. An excellent salsa ingredient, Arriba is also delicious either as a substitute or an addition to recipes calling for green jalapeños. Also known as a "Caribe" type pepper.
Lemon Drop
An heirloom seasoning pepper from Peru that ripens to a clear lemon yellow, sometimes with a dark purple blush. The flavor is a very clean, uncomplicated, slightly citrusy heat. Great for jellies and preserves, and it also dries very well. The plant is large and gets covered with attractive peppers.
Ornamental, Jigsaw
The Jigsaw pepper is a stunning feast for the eyes! Leaves are multicolored in tie dye patterns of lavender, cream, violet, sea-foam and forest green, making it one of the most ornamental of peppers. Short, stocky plants produce small, plum-colored fruit, about as spicy as a jalapeño, that ripen to a deep red. Try this dazzling edible ornamental in containers or borders, anywhere its ornate foliage can be admired.
Ornamental, Medusa
The Medusa ornamental pepper is a compact, low-maintenance annual featuring 2–2½” long, twisted peppers that mature from ivory to yellow, orange, and bright red. Ideal for containers, borders, and beds they grow 6–12” tall, and are child-safe due to their mild flavor.
Peter Pepper
The Peter pepper is a rare heirloom chili pepper famous for its distinct, phallic shape, grown for both novelty and culinary use, offering a mild-to-medium heat similar to a jalapeño but with a slightly sweeter flavor. Plants grow 2-4’ tall and produce 4-6” peppers that ripen from green to red and are used fresh, dried, or pickled.
Poblano
Large, high quality dark green chiles on productive plants. Thick-walled, medium-sized fruits are a glossy dark green, nearly black, maturing to a deep chocolate with mild heat. Plants have an upright habit with excellent leaf cover and concentrated fruit set.
Roulette
A red habanero hybrid without the heat! Roulette imparts a sweet, floral flavor without the traditional fire. The beautiful, bright red fruits are 3 x 1¾" and are borne on large, sturdy plants.
Serrano, Altiplano
An impressive size at 4½-5" long, these hybrid peppers are faster to harvest than types with smaller fruits. Traditional Serrano flavor and pungency. Medium-large plants are very productive, peppers ripen to red and have a fruitier flavor.
Shishito, Mellow Star
Mild Japanese pepper for roasting, pan-frying and grilling. Thin walls blister and char easily when roasted or grilled, taking on rich flavor that is delicious with coarse salt and lemon juice. The occasional fruit will display heat. Typically harvested and used green, but eventually turns orange and red with sweeter flavor.
Sweet Banana, Goddess
Sweet banana pepper for pickling or fresh eating. Long, thick-walled, smooth fruits are borne on large hybrid plants. About 8-9" long, the fruits are mild when yellow and moderately sweet when they ripen red. Widely adapted, with resistance to bacterial leaf spot.
Sweet Bell, Golden California Wonder
High yields of deep gold, thick-walled fruits that set well in cool conditions. Sturdy, upright 22-30" plants. One of the best open-pollinated gold peppers available. Cool tolerant, 4-4½" fruits.
Sweet Bell, Gourmet
Green bells ripen into bright orange fruits. Medium-large and blocky they have thick walls and are very sweet and flavorful. Widely adapted hybrid performs well under a wide variety of conditions. Strong compact plants have a high yield potential.
Sweet Bell, Michigan Wonder
If you like green bell peppers, you will love Michigan Wonder– a beautiful pepper with a satisfying crunch! Peppers are blocky and medium sized (4-5” long), with thick walls. Fruits will eventually ripen red, but people really love Michigan Wonder as a green pepper. This pepper, originally released in 1939 by Burgess Seed and Plant Co. of Galesburg, MI, is descended from the traditional California Wonder heirloom but adapted to our shorter, cooler growing season.
Sweet Bell, Red Knight
Big, blocky fruits are early to turn red, when the flavor is fruity and sweet. Hybrid, compact, open plants have strong disease resistance.
Sweet Bullhorn, Carmen
We always grow this excellent tasting Italian frying pepper. Early, adaptable, and notably sweet (especially when fully red-ripe) with a shapely silhouette, this plant performs well in northern Michigan, better than sweet bells in many cases. Begins green, then deepens to a beautiful carmine at maturity. Excellent roasted, grilled, and in salads. Fruits average 6" long x 2½" wide. AAS winner.
Sweet Bullhorn, Escamillo
Delicious yellow Italian frying pepper. The golden-yellow counterpart to the lovely Carmen. Named for Carmen's love interest in the French opera: the bullfighter Escamillo. Intoxicating sweetness any way it is prepared, but traditionally used for frying. Broad-shouldered with an attractive taper. Fruits average 6" long x 2-2½" wide. AAS winner.
Sweet Mini-Bell, Picnic Mix
Picnic peppers have unbelievable sweetness, and a rich complex flavor that makes them addictive. Bred with an emphasis on flavor, yields and plants that stand up straight for easy harvest. Red, orange, and yellow 3-5" fruits.
Trinidad Perfume
The perfect chili for those who don't like the heat but wish to taste the flavors and smell the aromas associated with Habanero-type peppers. It makes an excellent seasoning for Caribbean-style food and can be used fresh in salads like sweet pepper, cooked or allow to dry, and used as flakes or powder. A useful and unusual pepper. Sturdy 24″ tall plants are extremely prolific. Fruits mature to a golden orange and measure 1-1½″ long.
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Schedule
We will be attending multiple farmers markets this year in Alden, Bellaire, Williamsburg, Central Lake, and Traverse City with our plant starts. See the details here.
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Deliveries
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