Plant Profile

Super Heavyweight Plant Type: Pepper, Sweet Germination: 72 degrees F, 10 days to germinate Transplanting: 26 days after sowing Shape: Typical bell pepper pointed leaves Garden Height: 30 inches Spread: 25 inches Habit: Upright bush, but should be staked to hold up the giant fruit, and to keep plants from breaking down. Recommended Spacing: 28 inches apart in rows, 36 inches apart Description: This is the biggest, heaviest, thickest-walled, sweetest, blocky bell pepper you most likely will have ever seen. Impressive is the word! Super Heavyweight is perfect for fair competitions, farmer markets, restaurants, giant stuffed peppers and for attempting to set world records by growing the biggest bell pepper ever. This beauty matures its jumbo fruits from green to bright gold. The flavour is marvelous and the fruits contain more Vitamin C than a cup of orange juice...a lot more. Super Heavyweight produces giant green fruits for harvest in approximately 77 days from transplants, and they turn golden in two to three weeks if left on the plant. As the fruit turns golden, they become sweeter. This variety is resistant to Tobamo Po virus. Super Heavyweight is new for the 2002 gardening season.

Ornamental Pepper F1 ‘Chilly Chili’ The first family-friendly ornamental pepper with exceptional garden performance. ‘Chilly Chili,’ as the name implies, has non-pungent fruit. The "heat" was bred out of the peppers, which is perfect for households with children who like to explore their environment. The fruit changes colour from yellow to orange and matures at red. Extremely heat tolerant, ‘Chilly Chili’ will provide garden colour during hot summers. Pepper plants can grow about a foot tall and spread 6-10 inches. The petite 2 inch peppers can be used as clever ornamental garnishes on salads or with ethnic entrees. Rudbeckia Hirta ‘Cherokee Sunset’ This Rudbeckia hirta contains a blend of sunset colours; yellow, orange, bronze, mahogany and shades of these colours. The 3 to 4-1/2 inch flowers are double or semi-double and long lasting as cut flowers. In the full sun, ‘Cherokee Sunset’ plants are about 24 to 30 inches tall, spreading about a foot. Many plants are self-supporting and others may need staking. ‘Cherokee Sunset’ offers gardeners a blend of autumn colours and late season garden performance. Flowering profusely the first year, ‘Cherokee Sunset’ may over-winter in northern gardens.