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’

‘Flexum’ is sweet.

‘Biggie Chili’ is sweet too.

‘Pimiento’, thicker than a bell pepper.

Giant Acongacua

Peruvian Purple Pepper

Zig Zag

Super Chili

Santa Fe (Rio Grande type)

Prairie Fire

Poinsettia, one tall plant (3′)

Fish, variegated pepper

Inca Red Drop. 3′ x 5′.

Purple Jalapeno

Joe E Parker, mild

Ornamental Medusa

Yellow Cheese pimiento. Sweet!

Habanero pile

My pepper is bigger than yours

Giant Acongacua, sweet as an apple.

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

Bird peppers

‘Mariachi’

‘Sweet Cayenne’

‘Pimiento’