Abstract
Colored sweet bell-shaped and tapered peppers remain an important summer crop for small and medium-sized farming operations across Indiana. These crops can be produced in open-field systems or under protective structures, with high tunnels offering notable advantages for sweet pepper production. The moderated environment of a high tunnel allows planting 2–4 weeks earlier in the spring and extends harvest into the fall until the first hard freeze. Despite the crop’s regional importance, performance data for pepper varieties adapted to Indiana conditions have been limited. Our ongoing work aims to address this gap. To date, more than forty pepper cultivars have been evaluated, each tested across two production cycles to capture seasonal variability. This report summarizes results from the most recent trial, which included five sweet bell pepper and four tapered pepper entries grown at the Purdue Student Farm in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Keywords
Sweet pepper, variety trial, high tunnel, Indiana
Date of this Version
2025
Recommended Citation
Langenhoven, Petrus, "Colored Sweet Bell and Tapered Pepper Cultivar Evaluation for High Tunnel Production in West-Central Indiana, 2025" (2025). Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports. Paper 286.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/mwvtr/286