Introduction Some like them hot. Some like them sweet. If variety is what you like, the pepper plant is the vegetable for you.
Peppers are amazing plants to grow in the home garden.
Not only do they ripen into a rainbow of brilliant colors, but the pods also come in many different shapes and sizes. If you're not sure what variety to grow, the Master Gardeners can give you some help. In the 1999 McClellan Ranch vegetable research trial in Cupertino, the Master Gardeners grew over thirty varieties of both sweet and hot peppers. With a large harvest and over a hundred people attending the public tasting, it was one of our most successful test gardens ever. From the results of the public tasting, the top five varieties were all hot peppers.