Welcome to The Herb Cottage

Purple Basil The Herb Cottage Website is your source for information about herb growing and gardening, with an emphasis on growing and gardening in the humid south where winters are mild and summers are very hot and humid with the occasional hurricane or drenching rain. As with many parts of the country, the weather seems to have become more extreme, and as gardeners, we have to learn to do our best to cope with the weather. We sure can't change it!!

Use this information to decide wich pepper variety you might want to grow.

Scoville Pepper Heat Ratings

Wilber Scoville developed a heat rating chart for peppers in 1912. It is still the standard used today.

Below is a list of approximate ratings for peppers offered by Botanical Interest Seeds.

Different sources may list varied ranges. Pepper heat can be affected by growing conditions. Plants grown in dry, hot conditions will produce spicier peppers.

MILD

0 Bell Pepper, Sweet Italian (no heat)
100-500 Pepperocini
1,000-1,500 Ancho/Poblano
2,500 Pasilla Bajio



MEDIUM

2,500-8,000 Jalapeno
4,000 Hungarian Yellow Wax
4,500-5,000 New Mexico Joe E. Parker



HOT

15,000-30,000 Serrano
30,000-50,000 Cayenne, Tabasco



EXTREMELY HOT

50,000-100,000 Thai, Santaka
100,000-350,000 Habanero
1,040,000 Bhut Jolokia*

*The hottest pepper according to Guinness Book of World Records. Not offfered by Botanical Interests.