Sweetest Peppers to Grow in Your Garden

I thought since it’s prime seed ordering time, I thought I would share with you all the sweetest peppers I grow. I have tasted and grown many different varieties of peppers, many new varieties every year. These aren’t generic “sweet” bell peppers, but the peppers that taste like literal pepper sugar when grown in good/typical conditions.

The Sweetest Peppers

1. Corbaci – I cannot say enough about this pepper. It is a grow-every-year pepper for my garden. It has many great qualities. The peppers are almost a foot long, thin walled. The plants are prolific. An 18″ Corbaci plant can easily present you with 40 peppers in various stages of ripeness. The flavor is sublimely sweet. This is an earlier pepper, just behind the earliest sweet on the list, Melrose. They photograph beyond cute, as they often grow in a spiral. Only downside is the seeds often are found down the entire length of the pepper. Easy to run a finger or a knife down the center for a quick seed excising, however.
   
   

2. Melrose – Another will-grow-every-year pepper. Melrose peppers are sentimental for me. It’s the first sweet pepper I grew beyond the bell pepper. Italian sweets are now a love of mine, and well deserved. So sweet! Another lovely characteristic of the Melrose pepper is the earliness of this pepper. It’s always my first pepper ripe for the season, often in time to enjoy for the 4th of July, if you start the seeds indoors by April. The peppers are thinner walled, and about 3-4″ long. The plant is also quite prolific. Another shorter plant, 12-18″ tall, that loads itself with peppers.

3. Corno di Toro – Yellow Pepper. Another grow-every-year pepper. This is a lovely large super sweet Italian pepper. The pepper is crisp and sweet and large, most fruits are around 6″ long, fat and thick-walled. The only downside is the plants are not prolific. I grow a few of these every year to make sure I have enough.

4. Jimmy Nardello – Yet another Italian Sweet. This is a pepper you will find on most all the sweetest pepper lists. Well-deserved. It’s not an early ripening pepper, but it does ripen on the earlier side of many peppers. The plants have an average number of fruits. The 8″ long, thin walled Jimmy Nardello pepper is genuinely sweet and is often the gateway drug…I mean pepper, for people who want to try sweet peppers beyond bells.

5. Habanada – This pepper is the heatless habanero. It is very sweet and it has the most unique flavor. I make a killer eggroll dipping sauce with these fruits. The plants are beyond prolific. The Habanada fruits are about 2″ long, quite thin skinned and the 18″ plant will tip over by the end of the season.

How do I grow the sweetest peppers? Sunshine, sunshine, sunshine. As the plants near ripening, only water to keep healthy, do not overwater. Peppers, in particular, can handle some heat without needing all the water. As they grow, before ripening, water as normal.

Thank you for stopping by!