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Originally Posted by jmsieglaff
How is the production on the Beaver Dam pepper? Assuming you've grown it before. I've been quite happy with King of the North.
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Beaver Dam has been highly productive, a heavy set of large peppers on a surprisingly small plant. They ripen very early, so I get a good crop even in cool years... like last year. The walls are as thick as bells. It is my main pepper for canned salsa.
I saw King of the North in another garden last year, and while the peppers were fairly small, most of them had ripened. I prefer the larger bells I mentioned above for their flavor, but they are temperamental in bad years. Most years I don't grow bells at all; other thick-walled, non-bell sweet peppers are more reliable... such as Greygo and Elephant Ear (Greygo, when ripe, is delicious eaten out of hand). Melrose, Pusztagold, and Parker Heirloom are all non-bell sweet peppers that I observed when I visited SSE last year, this will be my first year growing those.