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Look for Cherokee Chocolate, which is a stabilized version of Cherokee Purple and produces 10 to 16oz. mahogany colored fruits. Cherokee Chocolate
has excellent flavor and vigorous plants produce large harvests of very beautiful fruit. Also featured will be Margherita VF Hybrid, which is elongated, with 5 to 6 ounce fruits that ripen uniformly, with polished, bright red exteriors, thin skins and juicy. This variety is tasty enough for fresh eating, but really comes into its own when roasted or broiled.
The pepper and chili selection will be huge this year with over 90 varieties of hot and sweet peppers. Featured will be the Holy Mole’, a hot 2007 All American Selection Winner and the first hybrid pasilla pepper. Best known for its distinctive nutty and spicy flavor in mole sauce, Holy Mole bears 7 to 9 inch long peppers that start out green and mature to a dark chocolate color.
Also look for Purple Beauty, a sweet, rarely seen pepper that produces beautiful blocky, 3" by 3" emerald-green peppers that mature to eggplant-purple with thick, crunchy walls. These compact, 18" disease-resistant plants provide good foliage cover for the tasty, sweet fruit, and produce abundantly on each limb as well as on the crown.
All tomatoes and peppers for this sale are carefully propagated and organically grown exclusively in the Arboretum nursery by skilled volunteers. Proceeds from this annual sale benefit the Fullerton Arboretum. Check back later for updates on the March 2008 sale.
Complete List of Tomatoes for Sale in 2008
Complete List of Peppers and Chilies for Sale in 2008
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The Potting Shed hosts its annual “Monster Tomato and Pepper Sale” on the grounds of the Fullerton Arboretum each year near the middle of March. This is the largest annual plant sale in the region focusing exclusively on tomatoes, peppers, and chilies and customers travel from as far away as San Diego, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to purchase plants. 
