Marconi Peppers, Easter Reflections

I’ve made my way to my laptop this morning to begin this entry for you all and my self after a morning of planting sweet peppers, hot peppers, and eggplant. My favorite sweet peppers to grow are of the Marconi category. They are an Italian sweet pepper variety that come in oranges, reds, or yellows. This year I planted Marconi Red, from a seed packet I purchased last Summer from Seed Saver’s Exchange during my cross country road trip (read an entry I wrote along this journey from Montana to SC on seeds and faith here.) I am drawn to growing Marconi peppers over other types of sweet bell peppers because of their prolific and hardy nature. They are really good producers while handling our long, hot, and humid summers. They produce until frost… Side story, growing up we had a few raised beds in our lawn downtown. And I had an Italian Gold Marconi pepper that survived winter and bore fruits for 2.5 years! It was nuts. Since then I’ve been sold on Marconi peppers. This is the variety I pla…