Italian Sweet Bell Pepper Seeds-links

[carolg]

In another chat area, Bethanie asked about seeds for Italian Sweet Bell Peppers she can't find in her location. They are funny shaped, long and slim, sort of crooked too, but sweet. I plan on stuffing them.

I searched online and found these links:

http://www.seedsofchange.com/garden_...italian+pepper

http://www.seedsofchange.com/garden_...italian+pepper

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/p...epper&item=571

http://www.botanicalinterests.com/Pe...html?home=true

Italian garden seeds
http://www.seedsofchange.com/search/...all&q=italian+

carolg

[juliebove]

They also go by the names of Italianelle, Cubanelle and in NYC simply "frying" peppers. I learned this after messing up a dish that my Italian inlaws and pretty much everyone in the area where they live makes all the time for lunch or a quick supper. It's eggs and peppers. Nothing more than scrambled eggs with strips of pepper and a bit of garlic. I kept trying to make them for my husband but they never came out tasting right. I was using regular bell peppers. I was finally put straight by the brother one of my husband's distant relatives who had been all over the United States. These peppers have a much thinner flesh than regular bell peppers.

More recently I've been getting "pepper assortments" in my organic produce box that are very much like these but different colors like yellow and greenish yellow. I've also noticed that the bell peppers I grow if picked while immature have a very thin flesh and few seeds. So they would be a good sub for those peppers.

[Bethanie]

Yum, yum, the peppers look so good.
I will email you later today. If you take the seeds out of the peppers and place them in a paper towel over night they will dry and then you can place them in an envelope and mail them to me.
I'm so happy, i've learned to love the taste of peppers all kinds but these will be special because i've never tasted them before.
You are a doll to go to all the trouble to send them.
Thanks so much.
Bethanie
I will email you later.

[carolg]

Surely will wait for your email. Glad to share. I need to prepare the dish for Sunday so I will give it another few days to get it off to you. Glad to share. I may even have other seeds, not organic, may be old, but I have tried them and they work. If you are interested in some surprises let me know that as well. May be talking herbs, but who knows till you write.

carolg

[carolg]

Julie,
Thanks for the pepper information. I have to ask my brother in law about more pepper details as he is also from Italy.

Yes, they are thinish skin, but surely sweet.
carolg