“Heirloom” peppers have the most profound food heritage, as they have been protected and passed down for generations and their pure genetic lines can trace back to the first peppers discovered in ancient South America hundreds of years ago!

• I chose my 3 favorite specialty heirloom peppers for this slab because I just love the rich, smokey flavour of the

Chocolate Pepper

• , beautiful lime-yellow colour of the oblong

Hungarian Yellow Wax

• and meaty, sweet taste of the uniquely shaped

Heart Pepper

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My TOP TIPS for growing peppers

This ‘Planting Chocolate’ will grow you a whole garden of exotic heirloom varieties of sweet peppers.  These descriptions give you a taste of the wonderful harvests you can look forward to:

Chocolate Beauty: This sweet bell pepper starts out green and then turns a velvety chocolate brown as it ripens. It has a sweet, smokey flavour and its rich, chocolate brown flesh, keeps its colour when cooked. This pepper plant is a very abundant producer.

Heart Pimento: Pimento is Spanish for “pepper.” It grows large, red, heart-shaped sweet peppers 7 – 10 cm long and 5 cm wide.  The flesh is sweet, meaty, succulent and more aromatic than that of the red bell pepper.

Hungarian Yellow Wax: Sweet, non-pungent variety that bears the most beautiful soft lime green, 4cm wide by 8cm long fruit, which turn yellow, then orange and later deep bright red. The seed cluster is centered around the stalk, so they are easy to remove, to use these peppers for stuffing.  It is an abundant producer, bearing for months and the more you pick the more peppers it produces.

DID YOU KNOW? Heirloom Seed has been protected and passed down the generations. It is the purest seed on earth with exceptional taste and nutrition. The award winning trademarked ‘Planting Chocolate’ only grows heirloom vegetables & herbs