Fruiting vegetables · warm season
Banana pepper
Capsicum annuum
Sweet or mild-hot frying peppers that ripen earlier than bells and pickle well.
- When to plant in Ohio
- Start indoors March; transplant late May
- Harvest window
- July through frost
- Days to maturity
- 65–75
- Spacing
- 14–18 in.
- Light
- Full sun
How to grow it
Transplant into warm soil and keep evenly moist. Pick pale yellow for sandwiches and pickles; leave a few to orange-red. Plants stay compact and do well in 5-gallon pots on an Ohio patio.
Related fruiting vegetables
Bell pepper 65–85 green; 80–100 colored
Jalapeño 70–80
Eggplant 65–80 from transplant
Tomatillo 70–80