Kitchen Pepper
🍌 Bright, cheerful, and bursting with flavor — the Bananarama Pepper is a prolific sweet variety that brings both yield and beauty to your garden. Its long banana-shaped pods ripen from pale yellow ➡️ fire red, offering a mild, juicy...
CASA VERDE · HEAT PROFILE
Sweet
- Sweet — this variety
- Mild
- Medium
- Hot
- Super hot
Scoville range awaiting confirmation.
Understanding the heat
A diamond marks the midpoint of a listed range, or the listed value when only one number is given. An arrow marks a stated limit. These are variety guides, not measurements of our seed lot. This guide uses unequal numerical bands: sweet 0; mild up to 10,000; medium 10,000–50,000; hot 50,000–800,000; super hot from 800,000 SHU (display capped at 3 million). Heat varies between fruits and with growing conditions.
No numeric marker is shown without a sufficiently clear range. For bundles, the highlighted categories refer to the different varieties.
A Scoville range has not been listed for this variety.
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Bananarama Pepper
Capsicum annuum
🍌 Bright, cheerful, and bursting with flavor — the Bananarama Pepper is a prolific sweet variety that brings both yield and beauty to your garden. Its long banana-shaped pods ripen from pale yellow ➡️ fire red, offering a mild, juicy sweetness at every stage.
👅 Flavor Profile:
Crisp 🥒, juicy 💦, and sweet 🍭 with just a hint of tang. Equally delicious raw or cooked.
🍴 Culinary Uses:
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🥗 Slice fresh into salads for color + crunch
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🧀 Stuff with cheese, grains, or sausage for hearty bites
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🥒 Pickle whole for classic deli-style peppers
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🔥 Roast, grill, or sauté for smoky-sweet depth
👨🍳 Chef’s Pitch:
Think of Bananarama as your all-purpose sweet pepper with personality. Stuffable, sliceable, pickle-worthy, and grill-ready 🔥. It’s the pepper that bridges garnish ➡️ star ingredient. A chef’s reliable workhorse with major plate appeal.
🌱 Growing Notes:
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⏱ Early maturing + super productive
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🪴 Compact plants thrive in beds or containers
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📏 Pods reach 6–8 inches long
Heat: Sweet pepper. A variety-specific Scoville range has not been verified.
Cook your harvest
Use your harvest in these recipes. Check the variety notes and substitutions in each recipe.
Start indoors 8–10 weeks before last frost. Germinate at 26–30 °C on a heat mat; peppers stall below 22 °C. Pot up to 10–15 cm before hardening off outside after nights stay above 12 °C.
Feed balanced through bloom, then bump potassium for fruiting. Stake taller varieties. More detail in our full Canadian growing guide.
Match the pepper to the technique: thin-walled varieties blister fast in a hot pan; thick-walled ones roast or stuff beautifully; fruit-forward ones make balanced sauces and pickles. The variety's flavour profile is your shortcut — see Choosing the right pepper for a use-case guide.
