Szeged Paprika Pepper

Thick walled sweet red peppers, perfect for hanging to dry and then grinding into a fine powder to create the traditional "red" color in dishes like goulash (a beef stew). The plant is a wonderful producer, compact, and fruit is uniformly about 3" in length. They go from a dark green to a nice dark red when ready for harvest and hanging. Ally Schonfeld of Novick Urban Farm grew this pepper for our catalog, and she is growing the story as well: "The Szeged region is where the best sweet paprika peppers (including this one) come from in Hungary. This variety came from my great aunt, who is incredibly proud to pass her traditions in honor of her sister, my grandmother, who left Hungary in a hurry during the communist regime, traveling through Canada to settle in Queens, NYC. She died from ovarian cancer relatively young, so being able to grow these peppers makes me feel closer to a woman I didn't get to spend a lot of time with, but who I cherish the time I did have with her in her kitche