We're having the best harvest ever of both hot and sweet peppers. Five varieties of both sweet and hots are planted in beds separated by a few hundred feet so bees don't transfer hot genes to seeds developed by sweet varieties. Though we usually grow out specific varieties completely isolated from other peppers and have thousands of seeds stored in our freezer that were harvested this way, we'll save some of this year's seeds taken from the most healthy fruit for good measure. Some variety crossover may yield some that grow even better in our neighborhood!
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| Mix of Ripe Sweet Peppers |
We planted more than twelve dozen each of the not too hots and the sweets for variety and to insure that we get at least some hot and sweet for eating. So far, every variety is producing well with very little insect damage: Tangerine, Orange, Mexican Red, Purple Beauty and Yellow Round that are mild and sweet, and Serrano, Jalapeño, Alice's Favorite, Poblano and Shishito that are mildly hot peppers. We used to grow a few colors of Habanero peppers but they were too hot for most people. One batch of salsa even caused one challenger in a hot salsa eating contest to drop unconscious!
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| Sweet Peppers Sorted by Color |
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| Alice's Favorite Hot Peppers |
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| Serrano Hot Peppers |
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