Looking to grow specialty peppers in your garden to make recipes with? Sweet specialty peppers can add a ton of color and flavor to your dishes. Sweet peppers don't include just bell peppers and snack peppers, there are so many wonderful sweet pepper specialties! Read about all of our favorite specialty peppers below...
Cubanelle Peppers, shown above, are beloved by chefs for their crispy texture and thin walls that make them perfect for stir frying and other recipes.
Shishito peppers, above, are some of our favorite specialty peppers! These specialty peppers are super easy to grow, and are one of the fastest-growing varieties of peppers so that you can enjoy the harvests earlier in the season.
Specialty peppers bring so much to your kitchen! Think Banana peppers, Cubanelle peppers, frying peppers, the delicious Corno Di Toro-Giallo pepper, or even smokey or fruity sweet peppers like Pimento, Paprika or Piquillo... the choices are many. Grow any of our sweet pepper seeds and enjoy some homegrown deliciousness from your garden. Check out our list of specialty peppers below.
Specialty Sweet Pepper Types:
(ranging from no-heat to mild)
Bell Chocolate Sweet - 0 Scoville heat units
Bell Golden Cal Wonder - 0
Bell Green Cal Wonder - 0
Bell Orange Mini Snacker 0
Bell Purple Beauty - 0
Cubanelle - 0
Fushimi - 0
Jimmy Nardello - 0
Marconi Red - 0
Pimiento - 0
Shishito - 0
Sweet Cherry - 0
Trick or Treat NuMex Habanero - 0
Gypsy Pepper - 0
Sweet to Mild Specialty Peppers:
Padron 0-100 Scoville heat units
Paprika 0-100
Alma Paprika 0-500
Corno Di Toro-Giallo 0-500
Piquillo 0-500
Pimento Sheepnose 0-500
Sweet Banana 0-500
Sweet Hungarian Wax 0-500
Pepperoncini Golden Greek 100-500
Anaheim 500-1,000
Anaheim - Sonora Mild 600
Biquinho Yellow Pepper 500-1,000
Poblano 500-1,000
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What's the difference between bell peppers and sweet peppers?
First off, Bell peppers ARE a type of sweet pepper. That means that all Bell peppers are sweet peppers. But sweet peppers don't just stop with the common bells. Grow sweet peppers of the world in your garden and experience the rainbow of flavors and colors in your recipes. What makes a sweet pepper sweet is not that it tastes like candy (though some would say some do, depending on how they are prepared), it means that they don't have any heat (0 Scoville heat units). Roasting many of the specialty peppers listed above can bring out a ton of flavor and buttery qualities.
Also keep in mind that Bell peppers get tastier as they ripen to their final color. Bell peppers are most often picked green so that they travel well and are less perishable. Fully ripe red peppers are perishable, so they don't travel or last as long as green ones. Grow your own Bell pepper seeds and experience the full flavor that a juicy, homegrown bell pepper can bring to your tastebuds! 
Try any of our exotic sweet peppers from around the world for homegrown culinary delights! You won't regret the succulent flavors that specialty sweet peppers bring to the table.
Cubanelle Peppers, shown above, are also known as the "Cuban pepper" and are in the Capsicum annuum family, and is sweet and crispy! The short season Cubanelle pepper plants pump out tons of tasty peppers - some many have a small amount of heat, but nothing crazy. Many of our chef customers grow these every year religiously!
To wrap this up, growing Specialty Pepper Seeds in your garden is a great way to expand your culinary horizons. Enjoy freshly picked specialty peppers that you can't find at the local grocery store – you won't regret growing them!
