Black Hungarian pepper is so colorful that it not only belongs in the garden, but on the patio in pots as well.  It is a great show piece that can be used as a flowerbed border as well.  The emerald green foliage is highlighted by purple flowers and later red fruit.  Well, actually the fruit is green, then black and finally red!  So cool!  (see the picture)

Black Hungarian peppers grow about 30-36" tall.  Mild heat and great flavor.  We dry the peppers and grind them into our own spicy organic Hungarian paprika. 


Organic California Grown Heirloom
Black Hungarian got a slow start this year because of the cooler than normal summer nights, but then took off.  I honestly didn't know what to expect from these peppers and should have planted out more because now we are addicted to the sweet-hot-spicy flavor.  I wouldn't recommend transplanting them out till late May or early June even here in the Bay area.  At harvest, remove the seed cut into strips and dry on a fruit dryer for making your own paprika. Once they are really dry, we zip them up in a coffee grinder.  You need a lot of peppers to make just a tiny bit of powder so plan ahead.