I love peppers for their variety, both in appearance and flavors. Peppers contain more vitamin C per ounce than an orange! The plants can handle the heat of summer but not the rains. Therefore I plant them in the fall and they yield plenty of fruit until April/May.

Here are a few different types I have grown in my back yard over the years.

The hottest in the world ‘Carolina Reaper’

‘Ancho Villa’

‘Black Pearl’

‘Socrates’

‘Biggie Chili’ is sweet too.

‘Pimiento’

‘Pimiento, Sheep Nose’ thicker than a bell pepper.

Yellow Cheese pimiento. Sweet!

Giant Acongacua

Peruvian Purple Pepper

Zig Zag

Fish, variegated pepper

Super Chili

Santa Fe (Rio Grande type)

‘Flexum’ is sweet.

Floral Gem

‘Mariachi’

Gypsy

Prairie Fire

Poinsettia, one tall plant (3′)

Inca Red Drop. 3′ x 5′.

Purple Jalapeno

Joe E Parker, mild

Ornamental Medusa

Habanero pile

Giant Acongacua, sweet as an apple.

‘New Mex Sunrise, Sunset, Eclipse’ and Jalapenos in yellow, orange and red.

Bird peppers

Sweet Cayenne

‘Sweet Cayenne’

Biggie Chili

Big Jim

Serrano