In the kitchen
- Fresh eating: Cut into thick strips for salads and dipping.
- Roasting: Roast halves until tender and serve with herbs.
- Sauce: Blend roasted flesh into a sweet pepper sauce.
Kitchen Pepper
Orange Lesya is a sweet, thick-fleshed pepper for crunchy slices, colourful salads and slow roasting. Its heart-shaped orange pods bring a bright contrast to a kitchen harvest.
CASA VERDE · HEAT PROFILE
Sweet
Scoville0 SHU
- Sweet — this variety
- Mild
- Medium
- Hot
- Super hot
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.
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Growing guides
Ships from Québec
- Packet
- 10+ seeds per packet
- Heat
- 0–0 SHU
- Season
- 2027
CASA VERDE · GROWER’S NOTES
Get to know your pepper.
Orange Lesya Pepper: fresh eating and roasting
Orange Lesya is a sweet, thick-fleshed pepper for crunchy slices, colourful salads and slow roasting. Its heart-shaped orange pods bring a bright contrast to a kitchen harvest.
Sweet
10+ Seeds per Packet
Capsicum annuum
Fresh eating and roasting
Why grow it?
Grow it when the pepper itself is the dish: generous slices for a snack plate, roasted halves for lunch, or a sweet base for blended sauces.
At a glance
Flavour: Sweet, thick-fleshed and colourful
Appearance: Heart-shaped pods that ripen golden orange
Crop: Warm-season pepper, grown as an annual in Canada
Best uses: Fresh eating and roasting
Growing in Canada
Start indoors 8–10 weeks before your expected last frost, allowing extra time for slower seasoning peppers. Keep the seed-starting mix warm and evenly moist. Harden plants off gradually and transplant after frost into a sunny, sheltered position once nights are reliably warm. In a short season, a container in a warm spot can help you manage the crop.
Explore the kitchen garden
Pepper seeds Canada2027 pepper seeds catalogueIs this a sweet or spicy pepper?
This is a sweet pepper grown for flavour rather than heat.
Can I grow it in a container?
Yes. Use a generous container with drainage, full sun and consistent watering. Feed regularly and support the plant as fruit develops.
What is in the packet?
10+ pepper seeds for starting your own plants. This is a seed listing, not fresh peppers or live plants.
Seed note
Also searched as Orange Leysa. This is the orange-fruited variety, distinct from the red Leysa listing.
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.
