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Peppers

Peppers are becoming more and more common in our gardens.
Choose the varieties you cook most often and plant them

in the ground or in pots. Sweet peppers are very versatile
in the kitchen; hot peppers add spice!

Hot Wax
Garden companions:

Some varieties to try basil, carrots, marjoram,
▪ For awesome peppers grown in patio pots: peas, eggplants
Costa Rican Sweet, Redskin, Pretty N Sweet

▪ To wow your family and friends with crisp, juicy sweet peppers:
Purple Beauty, Flavorburst, Classic, Mad Hatter,
Candy Cane Chocolate Cherry

▪ For hot peppers from containers on your deck:
Tabasco, Apache, Cayennetta
▪ An heirloom pepper with a spicy aroma:
Hot Wax Hungarian Heirloom Hot Pepper, Hot Lemon Purple Beauty

Costa Rican Sweet Candy Cane Flavorburst Tabasco
Chocolate Cherry

Tip: Fact:

The traditional bell pepper is harvested green, even Only some of the heat in hot peppers
though most varieties will mature red, orange, or yellow. comes from the seeds; most
Peppers can be harvested at any stage of growth, but their of the heat is contained in the veins
flavour doesn’t fully develop until maturity. (the soft connections inside
the pepper).

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