Last night I took a good look at all of my pepper plants to inventory what has yet to be harvested. This might be an easy task for most, but it’s challenging for me because I use the square foot gardening method and decided to run taste/heat trials this year on peppers. I planted 26 varieties of peppers in two raised beds, so you can imagine keeping tract of these isn’t that easy.

The star of the show thus far has been the Bishops Crown Chilli Pepper. It’s the most prolific producing pepper plant I have; and I mistakenly planted two of them. Regardless, one of these by itself would still make it the most abundant yielding plant of the field.

In addition to its production, the Bishops Crown has such an interesting shape that it’s just so cool to look at. In terms of Scoville units, the heat is right about perfect for what I can handle (which ain’t much). So we’ll see what else strikes my fancy, but so far, this one has my vote!

I also picked some Dragon’s Claw, Omni Color, and Black Hungarian Chilles. The Black Hungarian is very interesting in its development because it seems very slow in its ripening. The fruit has been on the plants and has turned color for quite some time, but the reverse side not receiving sun hasn’t really turned, so I decided to pick them, to see what a second fruiting might do.

I’ll have more pepper journals to come, and I’ll do a summary write-up at the end of the season.