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A Striped Pepper

By Published On: July 20th, 20200.4 min readCategories: Photos, Plants
Last Updated: September 9, 2023

I was out in the garden picking peppers to pickle when I came across this Italian frying pepper who’s chosen to change color from green to red with stripes instead of the usual blush.

This pepper is going from green to red with stripes of color

I wonder if the Italians got the idea for their flag from a pepper like this..

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  1. Picked a Peck of Peppers | Sage's Acre Organic Gardens August 18, 2021 at 10:15 am - Reply

    […] a bunch of prima donnas and poorly suited for our hot, dry, sunny summers. Bell, cubanelle, corno, mini, it doesn’t really matter, without heavy shade cover at this time of year the leaves […]

  2. A Bell Pepper Wonder | Sage's Acre Organic Home & Gardens October 20, 2022 at 3:19 pm - Reply

    […] had some frying peppers a couple of years ago that were striped, but I’ve never seen a pepper go halfsies on it’s […]

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