Homegrown Peppers

A pepper garden walk-though and tour is what I have for you today.  I thought you might like to see my container garden full of pepper plants — and some peppers as well!  Growing peppers is a whole lot of fun, and I enjoy growing all kinds of different peppers.  You’ll even see some peppers that I grew from seeds which I harvested from a grocery store pepper!

Growing Peppers in Containers

I grow all my peppers in containers.  For one, the soil here in my Tennessee zone 7A yard is hard clay and rocky — I literally have to dig holes for plants with a pick axe!  While I have planted a few things in the ground, they have mostly been perennials.

My yard is also sun-challenged (i.e. I don’t have any spots with all-day sun).  The trees that I loved when we moved in end up shading my yard way too much.  (I’ll do a video and post about growing peppers and other veggies when you don’t have at least 6 hours a day of sun, and will link it here when it’s up.)

Anyway, containers allow me to move the plants around if I need to.  Some of the peppers seem to do OK with the semi-shade, while others most definitely need as much sun as I can give them.  Growing peppers in containers gives me the most options.

Plus, as the sun angle changes during the year, I can move the container peppers as needed in order to follow the sun.

Enough about growing peppers in containers — on to the pepper garden tour and walk-through!

Pepper Garden Tour and Walk Through

I shot this video on June 14, 2020.  I am going to try and do a garden tour every couple of weeks throughout the pepper-growing season, so you can see what the garden looks like, and the kind of harvests I get.

Peppers you will see in this pepper garden tour are:

• NuMex Suave Orange
• Buena Mulata
• Tricked You Jalapeno
• Grocery Store Peppers
• Bolivian Rainbow
• Sweet Banana
• Purple Jalapeno
• Super Heavyweight Hybrid
• Cascabela

Wait until you see Buena Mulata — it astounds me how many peppers I have on that plant, so early in the season!

So, here we go with the pepper garden tour — I hope you enjoy it!