Bananarama
10+ Seeds/Packet · Bananarama Pepper Capsicum annuum · 🍌 Bright, cheerful, and bursting with flavor — the Bananarama Pepper is a prolific sweet variety that brings both yield and beauty to your garden. Its long banana-shaped pods ripen...
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10+ Seeds/Packet
Bananarama Pepper
Capsicum annuum
🍌 Bright, cheerful, and bursting with flavor — the Bananarama Pepper is a prolific sweet variety that brings both yield and beauty to your garden. Its long banana-shaped pods ripen from pale yellow ➡️ fire red, offering a mild, juicy sweetness at every stage.
👅 Flavor Profile:
Crisp 🥒, juicy 💦, and sweet 🍭 with just a hint of tang. Equally delicious raw or cooked.
🍴 Culinary Uses:
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🥗 Slice fresh into salads for color + crunch
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🧀 Stuff with cheese, grains, or sausage for hearty bites
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🥒 Pickle whole for classic deli-style peppers
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🔥 Roast, grill, or sauté for smoky-sweet depth
👨🍳 Chef’s Pitch:
Think of Bananarama as your all-purpose sweet pepper with personality. Stuffable, sliceable, pickle-worthy, and grill-ready 🔥. It’s the pepper that bridges garnish ➡️ star ingredient. A chef’s reliable workhorse with major plate appeal.
🌱 Growing Notes:
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⏱ Early maturing + super productive
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🪴 Compact plants thrive in beds or containers
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📏 Pods reach 6–8 inches long
🌶 Scoville Heat Units (SHU): 0 — 500 SHU
Start indoors 8–10 weeks before last frost. Germinate at 26–30 °C on a heat mat; peppers stall below 22 °C. Pot up to 10–15 cm before hardening off outside after nights stay above 12 °C.
Feed balanced through bloom, then bump potassium for fruiting. Stake taller varieties. More detail in our full Canadian growing guide.
Match the pepper to the technique: thin-walled varieties blister fast in a hot pan; thick-walled ones roast or stuff beautifully; fruit-forward ones make balanced sauces and pickles. The variety's flavour profile is your shortcut — see Choosing the right pepper for a use-case guide.
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