Fordhook pepper
Capsicum annuum 'Fordhook'
AAS Winner 1940
USDA zones4 to 11
SunNeeds full sun (6+ hours)
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Habit
- Erect
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer, autumn
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay
- Soil pH
- Acid, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
'Fordhook' pepper (Capsicum annuum 'Fordhook') is a vegetable for food gardens, containers, and borders. It is typically grown as an annual. It is tender to cold, and the first hard frost will kill it. This plant likes full sun and average to moist, sandy, loamy, or clay soil. Birds visit it, and it tolerates drought once settled in. Deer usually look elsewhere for a meal.
Pairs well with Tomato, Candy carrot, and Thai basil.