Discovery: Sweet Savour Peppers

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Peppers have really come into a renaissance in recent years. Whether spicy hot or sweet and mild, the once run-of-the-mill pepper plays a starring role both in the kitchen and in the garden. Perhaps it’s because the pepper breeders are developing all sorts of interesting shapes, colors, and tastes. I’m a big fan of the Sweet Savour Peppers.

I received a sample of a new sweet pepper plant from Burpee Home Gardens that is not only a tasty pepper, but also a very beautiful fruiting plant. It’s called Sweet Savour, and to look at it you’d think it was quite the opposite of sweet. Its narrow, tapered fruits are reminiscent of cayenne pepper, but the flavor is definitely not like cayenne.

The color of Sweet Savour is what makes this edible just as beautiful as any ornamental plant. Fruits turn shades of three different colors—red, orange, and yellow. A few on my plant are even streaked orangey-yellow. And unlike a typical sweet pepper, these fruits are held up above the plant, with their long tips pointing upward like so many fingers.

We have it growing in the ground, but the breeder says this plant also does really well in a container. It stays relatively compact at just 24-32 inches tall and wide. Planted in late May or early June, it started producing fruits not long afterward, maybe as early as late June.

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