Jimmy Nardello

[MendozaMark]

Who is Jimmy Nardello?
The Story of the Jimmy Nardello Pepper

BY KURT MICHAEL FRIESE

http://www.iowasource.com/food/cooks_0807.html

[Labradors2]

What a nice story!

I received some seeds in the MMMM swap, and plan to grow some this year.

Linda

[Worth1]

I haven't had time to read the link yet but will I am busy planting grape vines and a few other things but will tonight.
I can say that pepper goes real well layered in lasagna and roasted on top with the cheese.

Worth

[MendozaMark]

Originally Posted by Labradors2

What a nice story!

I received some seeds in the MMMM swap, and plan to grow some this year.

Linda

You will not be disappointed Linda. This by far the best sweet pepper I have ever tasted. Its my earliest sweet pepper, loaded on 24 " plants. No hurry on eating them as they are thin skinned and will just dry up if not used. I still have lots of sweet peppers to try ripe but Jimmy sets a very high bar. I will still be looking for my ultimate thick walled sweet pepper but I think I have my sweet thin walled pepper locked up.

[Labradors2]

Thanks MendozaMark!

I Googled Jimmy Nardello and found nothing but positive and glowing recommendations for this variety over on the Baker Creek site. It sounds like a real winner AND I love the idea of hanging the extras up to dry!

I found a fabulous early thick walled, productive sweet pepper last year, but its a hybrid "North Star". It really was everything that I'm looking for, except for being F1. I won the plant at a Garden Club raffle!

I'll be trying out "Yummy Orange" and "Donkey Ears" peppers this year, along with "Jimmy" .

Linda

[ChiliPeppa]

I'm growing them for the first time this year. How does one use a dried sweet pepper?

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by ChiliPeppa

I'm growing them for the first time this year. How does one use a dried sweet pepper?

Sweet paprika.

Worth

[ChiliPeppa]

mmmm sounds yummy

[roper2008]

One of my favorite peppers. So sweet and good you can eat it fresh.

[Labradors2]

Originally Posted by ChiliPeppa

I'm growing them for the first time this year. How does one use a dried sweet pepper?

I add them to stews, soups and spaghetti sauces .

Linda

[2mnyrzs]

Originally Posted by MendozaMark

Who is Jimmy Nardello?
The Story of the Jimmy Nardello Pepper

BY KURT MICHAEL FRIESE

http://www.iowasource.com/food/cooks_0807.html

I loved the history of this pepper! This will be my first year growing it, can't wait.

[dahoss2002]

Grew them for the first time last year and I liked them. They are among the pepper seedlings I planted today.

[Fusion_power]

Jimmy Nardello is a typical italian frying type sweet pepper with decent flavor and culinary usefulness. Italian Frying is a named variety in the same group with perhaps a bit larger pepper and slightly better flavor. Marconi's are a bit larger and have a few different uses.

If you want to be a real pepper aficionado, locate some Aji Jobito and see what you think of a sweet chinense culinary pepper.

[bower]

Jimmy is a favourite here and besides being tops for tasty and productive, outranks every other sweet pepper I have tried for producing in spite of bad weather. The past year was a total pepper failure for me, but the Jimmys still managed to push out a handful of green peppers before the bitter end, and none of the others did except for a couple of crossed jalapeno/guerito hots.

[MendozaMark]

Originally Posted by Fusion_power

Jimmy Nardello is a typical italian frying type sweet pepper with decent flavor and culinary usefulness. Italian Frying is a named variety in the same group with perhaps a bit larger pepper and slightly better flavor. Marconi's are a bit larger and have a few different uses.

If you want to be a real pepper aficionado, locate some Aji Jobito and see what you think of a sweet chinense culinary pepper.

I will keep my eyes open for Aji Jobito. Did you try any of the other Venezuelan peppers ?

I have Marconi's but not the Italian Frying pepper. Just waiting for the Marconi's to mature .

Thanks