Heirloom Golden Treasure Sweet Pepper

The Golden Treasure pepper is an heirloom variety that is great for grilling, eating fresh, and for slicing in salads.

Growing Golden Treasure Peppers

If starting by seed, start them 8 weeks before your last frost. Like all peppers, they like warmth. Fill each starter cells with sterile seed starting soil. Lay the seeds on top and cover with a light covering of soil. Make the soil moist by lightly sprinkling with water and keep in a warm spot until germination, about 14 days.

Wait until the temperature is warm outside before transplanting or the fruit won’t set properly. If purchasing them from a nursery, check to make sure they are in good condition and place directly in the garden spot. If you are using your own seedlings, harden off them off a couple of days outside before the actual planting. They do best once they are in the ground when the soil has warmed up a bit.

Harvesting the Golden Treasure Peppers

These peppers take about 80 days to full maturity, and produce a unique shaped sweet pepper. They are thin and long, and very sweet. Their flesh turns from a green color to a yellow and deep gold when they are mature. They are pretty productive, too. The peppers range in size from 6 to 8 inches.

Using the Golden Treasure Peppers in Recipes

The Golden Pepper make an excellent stuffing pepper with its medium-thick walls and shape. They are a sweet pepper so there is no heat, and they can be used for all kinds of fillings. Try oven roasting them, slicing them (and using them fresh), sauteing them, and frying them. All around great kitchen sweet pepper that brings something different to the table than the standard bell peppers.