Shishito Pepper | Capsicum annuum | Certified Organic
Fry or roast to blister, and salt for the perfect savory snack.
If you've ever had a plate of green shishitos, prepared to perfection, salty and perfectly spicy and softened by a brief sauté, you've undoubtedly thought about growing your own. And why not? Finding the peppers in stores is difficult; growing your own is straightforward, inexpensive, and allows you to binge each summer on a very special treat.
Days to Germination 7-14 days
Days to Maturity 60 days from transplant
Planting Depth ¼"
Spacing in Row 18"
Spacing Between Rows 24"
Height at Maturity 18"
Sun Preference Full Sun
Artwork by Lori Larusso. In this work, an acrylic painting on shaped aluminum, Lori brings to life a subtle, amiable lion face within a platter of fried shishitos. She has completed a series of works constructing animals out of non-animal ingredients.
About Hudson Valley Seed Company
They are a values-driven seed company that practices and celebrates responsible seed production and stewardship. Hudson Valley are best known for their beautiful artist-design seed packs (Art Packs) that appeal to gardeners, gift buyers, and lovers of art and nature.
These Art Packs, most fundamentally, tell stories. Hudson Valley challenges artists to convey in a manner that is fully their own, the history and meaning of the seed variety contained in each pack. These stories were once integral to traditional societies-stories of seeds were often origin stories for entire communities and peoples, and the lore and beliefs that accumulated around seed varieties reflected the nearly familial way in which gardeners and farmers regarded their crops. Our society is, by and large, no longer connected to plants this way. But we like to think these Art Packs help to stitch our fragmented world back together: useful seeds, evocative art, both equally valuable to our experience of being human.