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'Jimmy Nardello's' Peppers |
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Heirloom. Sweet frying type. 20 to 24 inch plants bear 8-inch, thin-walled, curved, tapering fruit matures to crinkly deep red. About 80-90 days to maturity. Also known as 'Jimmy Nardello's Sweet Italian Frying', 'Jimmy Nardello' and 'Nardello Sweet'.
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80-90
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| Seed Sources: |
Burpee Seeds - updated in 2016
Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2016
Totally Tomato - updated in 2016
Underwood Gardens - updated in 2016
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (4.4 Stars)
Taste: (4.7 Stars)
Yield: (4.3 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (4.6 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 14
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 10/26/2017 by
CCE Nassau County NY
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Nassau, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| This variety of pepper showed no insect or disease damage. very healthy plant, thought it produced a medium yield. Most peppers were 5 - 6 inches long and few turned red as the description says. |
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Reviewed on 10/18/2017 by
Debbie L
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Orange, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Got off to a slow start. Nice flavor. |
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Reviewed on 10/12/2017 by
Cutler Botanic Garden
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Broome, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Planted 5/16/17 Crowded in space provided, plants did well, needed more room to do better. |
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Reviewed on 12/27/2014 by
UpstateJohn
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Monroe, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| 2014 was the second year for Jimmy Nardello sweet peppers in our gardens. They got off to a slow start in Upstate New YOrk on the south shore of Lake Ontario, as it was a tad cool. The taste is one of the sweetest we have grown. The yield was very nice with the quality of the pepper being a delicious selection for either frying or pickling. we put up a few dozen pints of the pickled ones and they were a big hit with friends and family. We shall repeat another 10 plants for 2015. |
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Reviewed on 07/14/2012 by
Ferdzy
- An intermediate gardener
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Ontario, Canada
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I like these very much, and persist in attempting to grow them even though I find them difficult. I must be at the northernmost limits of their ability to grow. Every year I am convinced they will be killed by frost before they ripen, and every year they squeak in under the wire. They produce quite a lot of peppers per plant, mostly all at once, as noted late in the season. Of coure, that\'s once I\'ve managed to get them germinated and planted out. I\'ve had very poor germination with Jimmy Nardello seeds, regardless of where I got the seed, and I have tried several different sources. They are both slow and irregular in germination - I figure I need to plant at least three times as many seeds as I want plants. |
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Reviewed on 08/13/2009 by
a_hermit
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Tompkins, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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Seeds from Seed Savers Exchange. Absolutely delicious sweet pepper, great shapes from curly to nearly straight, 6-10" long. A keeper! Good sweet alternative to the bells.
Here in upstate NY it obviously wanted it warmer compared to other varieties but even a small plant can produce a dozen peppers. Not a robust grower, sparse plants, slow start from seed, seems like it wants heat but still produced quite well in NY. (And this was a cool year.)
They gave better results than the initial "slow" impression, high fruit/leaf ratio. The peppers themselves are great tasting with a medium wall thickness. |
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Reviewed on 01/30/2009 by
JumboJim
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King, Washington, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| LOVE the flavor. Peppers are always dicey in Seattle and this grew fine despite being OP (hybrids usually grow more strongly in our cool climate). As others have mentioned it is sweet but it also has a touch of pepper pungency which is not at all spicy-hot but really awakens your taste buds.. A real taste treat. It does tend to produce a lot of curled fruit, some with strange litle lumps or odd bits at the base of the pepper. Not a big problem, perhpas you could save your own seed from the best plants/fruit to lessen this tendency. |
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Reviewed on 01/09/2009 by
Sandy H
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Rensselaer, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I personally find the texture a little thin, but they are easy and very productive. I mostly use them to make recaito rather than fresh eating, but I have friends who love them in salads and they make excellent frying peppers. One of the earliest to ripen and then they keep producing. |
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Reviewed on 09/02/2008 by
The Garden Space
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Cook, Illinois, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Not Sure
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| I love this pepper. Very sweet. It has a nice texture and is a great roasting & frying pepper. This one has got to be my favorite sweet pepper by far. |
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Reviewed on 04/28/2008 by
JVD0903
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Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| This is by far the best frying pepper you'll ever come across. I used to grow what we (i.e., my family) referred to as "Palazzolo" peppers, the seeds for which came from relatives in Palazzolo, Italy. Jimmy Nardello peppers are almost indistiguishable from Palazzolo peppers, and I have to believe that they have the same origin. |
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Reviewed on 04/04/2008 by
salmon
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Florence, Wisconsin, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I've grown this pepper for a few years in Northern WI with excellent results. The plants set a lot of fruit with about half turning red here. It is the sweetest pepper I've ever eaten (even sweet at non-red stages) and fries up nicely. When dead ripe or overripe it is almost like eating candy. |
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Reviewed on 01/09/2008 by
crabapple
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Monroe, West Virginia, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| The tastiest italian frying peppers you're likely to come across. And easy to grow, too. |
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Reviewed on 07/31/2006 by
purshia1
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Carson City, Nevada, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Purchased 12 plants from Seed Savers Exchange in May of 2006. Plants arrived in good condition and were planted on Memorial Day. By July first the plants were 10 inches tall and starting to flower. By July 31 (today) the plants are 18 - 20 inches tall, loaded with fruit and they continue set fruit. Green peppers are mildly sweet with a hint of floral/herbal taste.
Peppers are grown with no pesticides, soil is a native loamy sand with 3-5 inches compost deeply incorperated into each raised bed; fertilizer used this year is Dr. Dirt's Vegetable, Tomato and Pepper mix; all vegetables are grown in raised beds which are drip irrigated.
Beds are currently receiving >10 hours of sunlight/day; daytime temps in the high 90's for most of July, nighttime temps dropping to the high 50's to low 60's. Very little summer precip here in northern Nevada; drip irrigation is the way to dependably get water to everything in the garden.
Leaf eating insects have virtually ignored the foliage of this variety of pepper.
I will update in mid August for fresh, ripe peppers and in September when we harvest for canning. |
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Reviewed on 01/25/2006 by
NeOkgrower
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Wagoner, Oklahoma, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Abundant production of the sweetest pepper you'll ever eat. The redder they are, the sweeter they are. Little disease problems and seem to be heat tolerant here in NE OK. Excellent fall production till frost. A favorite. |
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