Hungarian Cheese Sweet Pepper
Capsicum annuum 'Hungarian Cheese'
Height: 24 inches
Spacing: 24 inches
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Hardiness Zone: (annual)
Group/Class: Sweet Mini
Description:
A high yielding and early maturing variety perfect for patio containers and sunny gardens; peppers mature from green to yellow, orange and red; mini bells are squat with thick walls, the perfect pepper for stuffing and pickling
Edible Qualities
Hungarian Cheese Sweet Pepper is an annual vegetable plant that is commonly grown for its edible qualities, although it does have ornamental merits as well. It produces small green peppers (which are technically 'berries') with orange overtones which are usually ready for picking from early summer to early fall. The fruit will often fade to red over time. The peppers have a sweet taste and a crunchy texture.
The peppers are most often used in the following ways:
- Eating When Cooked/Prepared
- Cooking
- Preserves
- Pickling
- Canning
Planting & Growing
Hungarian Cheese Sweet Pepper will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 18 inches. When planted in rows, individual plants should be spaced approximately 24 inches apart. This vegetable plant is an annual, which means that it will grow for one season in your garden and then die after producing a crop.
This plant is quite ornamental as well as edible, and is as much at home in a landscape or flower garden as it is in a designated vegetable garden. It should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It may require supplemental watering during periods of drought or extended heat. This plant is a heavy feeder that requires frequent fertilizing throughout the growing season to perform at its best. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.
Hungarian Cheese Sweet Pepper is a good choice for the vegetable garden, but it is also well-suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. With its upright habit of growth, it is best suited for use as a 'thriller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the center of the pot, surrounded by smaller plants and those that spill over the edges. It is even sizeable enough that it can be grown alone in a suitable container. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.
