FREE: 12 Organic Seeds CUBANELLE PEPPERS Pepper

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If you want to grow a sweet, mild pepper, try planting cubanelle peppers in your garden. The cubanelle pepper has a sweet taste with a little more heat than a bell pepper. Unlike bell peppers, which have thick walls, the cubanelle has thin walls, making it a great pick for frying or stuffing. The fruits of the plant are usually about 4 inches long. The unripe pepper is yellow-green and turns orange, then red, as it ripens.

Grow cubanelle peppers from seeds or seedlings. If you decide to plant seeds, start them inside about eight weeks before the last frost date in your area. Wait until two weeks after the last frost before you plant the peppers outside. You may plant the seeds directly in the garden if you live in a region that has a long growing season. The cubanelle pepper takes 70 to 80 days to reach maturity. The plants do not like temperatures below 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Colder temperatures can reduce the yield of the plant.

Allow your cubanelle pepper plants plenty of room to grow. If you are planting in a raised bed, set each plant about 18 inches away from the others. Plant the peppers 24 inches apart if you grow in rows. For those with a small yard or a balcony garden, cubanelle peppers do fine in a 5-gallon container. Place one pepper plant per container so they are not crowded.

Plant wax peppers in rich, moist soil that drains well. They need plenty of sun to ripen. Feed the plants every two weeks with a high phosphorus (the middle number) fertilizer. Protect the plants from strong, drying winds.

The first peppers will begin to ripen about 70 days after you set the plants out.