Use plants as temporary low informal hedge, or grow and display them in containers. The two basic kinds of peppers are sweet and hot. Sweet peppers always remain mild, even when flesh ripens to red. This group includes a rainbow of bell peppers, hybrid varieties of which have been bred for early bearing, high yield or disease resistance. Other sweet types include pimientos, cherry peppers, Italian peppers and Hungarian peppers.
Hot peppers range from pea size to banana size.
Buy started plants at a nursery or seed indoors eight to 10 weeks before the average date of the last frost. Feed once or twice with commercial fertilizer after plants become established, before blossoms set. Sweet peppers are ready to pick when they have reached good size but keep their flavor until red-ripe. Pimientos should be picked only when red-ripe. Pick hot peppers when they are fully ripe.