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 2026 Plant List - updated 3/28/26

Click on each plant for more information 

*lists are subject to change

Native Trees/Shrubs/other     

 

*above one-gallon pot

Vegetables & Herbs

Tomatoes

Amy's Sugard Gem Cherry

Baby Roma

Brandywine

Cherokee Purple

Floridade

German Johnson

Gold Nugget Cherry

Sweetie Cherry

Peppers  (sweet and bell)

Bullnose

Lilac Bell 

Lipstick

Lunch Box orange

Lunch Box red

Lunch Box mix

Pepperoncini

Sunbright Bell

Sweet Banana

Truhart

Peppers (hot and spicy)

 

How do you measure the "heat" of a pepper?  The levels of a chemical compound known as capsaicin (kap-say-sn) determine how hot a pepper feels, with the amount of "heat" expressed with a tool called the Scoville Scale (Scoville Heat Units - SHU).

🌶️ MILD (0 - 2,500 SHU)

🌶️🌶️ MEDIUM (2,500 - 25,000 SHU)

🌶️🌶️🌶️ HOT (25,000 - 100,000 SHU)

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ VERY HOT (100,000 - 750,000 SHU)

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ SUPER HOT (750,000 - 2,693,000 SHU)

 

Ashe County Pimento 🌶️

Chinese Giant Red Bell 🌶️ 

Padron  🌶️

Emerald Green Giant Bell  🌶️

Holy Mole-y  🌶️

Banana Pepper  🌶️

Paprika 🌶️

Poblano 🌶️

Shishito  🌶️

 

Fish Pepper  🌶️🌶️

Jalapeno 🌶️🌶️

Serrano 🌶️🌶️

Sugar Drop Orange  🌶️🌶️

Buena Mulata  🌶️🌶️🌶️

Chinese Five Color 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Onza Roja 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Thai Scorpion  🌶️🌶️🌶️ 

Thai Super Chili  🌶️🌶️🌶️

Waialau Chili  🌶️🌶️🌶️

Yatsufusa 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Yellow Dragon's Toe 🌶️🌶️🌶️

 

Habanero 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Jamaican Yellow Habanero 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Scotch Bonnet  🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

 

 

Apocalypse Scorpion 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Bhut Jolokia Ghost  🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Carolina Reaper 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Ghost 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Herbs

Cilantro, slo-bolt

Dill, bouquet

Dill, teddy

Fennel, bronze

Garlic Chives

Genovese Basil

Italian Parsley

Cucumber

 

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