Vegetable-type chilli seeds

Vegetable chillies are relatively large-fruited and thick-fleshed, and tend to be milder than the spice-type varieties. Because of their bulk, these chillies are used mostly as a vegetable, playing virtually the same culinary role as sweet peppers.

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  • A collection of veg-type chillies
  • Apple Crisp
    • Apple Crisp

      A very mild chilli defined by its thick flesh that is sweet, crunchy and juicy.

      Heat level: very mild
      (approx. 400 SHU)

    • Apple Crisp

    • £3.00
  • Beaver Dam
    • Beaver Dam

      A vegetable type chilli that is both prolific and early. The mild fruit have a thick, juicy and flavourful flesh similar to that of sweet peppers.

      Heat level: mild

    • Beaver Dam

    • £3.00
  • Bulgarian Fish
    • Bulgarian Fish

      A traditional Bulgarian variety producing very mild fruit that are both crispy and sweet.

      Heat level: very mild
      (approx. 900 SHU)

    • Bulgarian Fish

    • £2.20
  • Bullet
    • Bullet

       A prolific and early yielding chilli with hot, thick-fleshed fruit.

      Heat level: hot
      (approx. 35,000 SHU)

    • Bullet

    • £2.20
  • Cyklon
    • Cyklon

      An early-maturing chilli producing good yields of medium heat, cone-shaped fruit.
      Approx. 20 seeds

      Heat level: medium
      (approx. 13,500 SHU)

    • Cyklon

    • £2.50
  • Draky
    • Draky

      An early and productive Eastern European chilli with thick-fleshed, cone-shaped fruit.

      Heat level: mild

    • Draky

    • £2.00
  • Hidalgo Serrano
    • Hidalgo Serrano

      A natural choice for Mexican cuisine, the medium hot fruit of Hidalgo Serrano can adapt to any style of cooking.

      Heat level: medium
      (approx. 24,000 SHU)

    • Hidalgo Serrano

    • £2.20
  • Hot Cherry
    • Hot Cherry

      An Italian variety producing medium hot, roundish fruit that are perfect for stuffing.
      Approx. 15 seeds

      Heat level: medium
      (approx. 6,000 SHU)

    • Hot Cherry

    • £2.20
  • Hungarian Hot Wax
    • Hungarian Hot Wax

      An early and dependable chilli producing medium hot fruit that are real multi-taskers in the kitchen.

      Heat level: medium
      (approx. 6,000 SHU)

    • Hungarian Hot Wax

    • £2.50
  • Jalapeño M
    • Jalapeño M

      A high yielding jalapeño chilli that produces large fruit on medium-sized plants.

      Heat level: medium
      (approx. 13,000 SHU)

    • Jalapeño M

    • £3.00
  • Jalapeño var. Early Jalapeño
  • Midas
  • Mulato Isleno Poblano
  • NuMex Joe E. Parker
    • NuMex Joe E. Parker

      A vegetable type chilli with very mild fruit that are delicious stuffed or added to salads, sauces and stews.

      Heat level: very mild
      (approx. 800 SHU)

    • NuMex Joe E. Parker

    • £2.00
  • Ohnivec
  • Ostry
    • Ostry

      Tall plants producing mild, cone-shaped chillies that can used as a substitute for sweet peppers.

      Heat level: mild

    • Ostry

    • £2.00
  • Padron
    • Padron

      Popular in Spain as a tapas the young, green fruit are fried in olive oil and eaten whole.

      Heat level: medium
      (immature fruit: almost heatless; red, ripe fruit: 8,000 SHU)

    • Padron

    • £2.50
  • Pek’s Shishito
  • Piment Curry
    • Piment Curry

      A Maurtian chilli with thin-fleshed, pleasantly aromatic fruit that ripen from green to red.

      Heat level: hot
      (approx. 29,000 SHU)

    • Piment Curry

    • £2.00
  • Piquillo
  • Rocky Road
    • Rocky Road

      A rocoto chilli that displays traits typical of the species: hairy leaves and stems, purple flowers and black seeds.
      Approx. 15 seeds

      Heat level: very hot

    • Rocky Road

    • £2.50
  • Rocoto Long
    • Rocoto Long

      A very hot chilli with a difference: purple seeds, purple flowers and hairy leaves and stems.

      Heat level: very hot
      (approx. 60,000 SHU)

    • Rocoto Long

    • £2.50
  • Santa fe Grande
    • Santa fe Grande

      An early maturing chilli with fruit that turn from yellow to red as they ripen.
      Approx. 20 seeds

      Heat level: medium
      (approx 5,500 SHU)

    • Santa fe Grande

    • £2.00
  • Shishito
    • Shishito

      Classic Japanese pepper producing fruit that are traditionally harvested young and eaten whole.

      Heat level: extremely mild

    • Shishito

    • £2.20
  • Sivri Biber
    • Sivri Biber

      A mainstay of Turkish cooking, this very mild, high yielding chilli is normally eaten when green and immature.

      Heat level: very mild
      (approx. 1,500 SHU)

    • Sivri Biber

    • £2.50
  • Tangerine Dream
  • Thai Green Curry
  • Thai Pumpkin
    • Thai Pumpkin

      A hot Thai chilli that looks like a pumpkin.  Fruit are strongly-ribbed, thick-fleshed and good for stuffing.

      Heat level: hot
      (approx. 36,000 SHU)

    • Thai Pumpkin

    • £2.00
  • Tinkerbell