Chili pepper reviews

This is likely whats in that shaker on the table of your local pizza joint. Easy to grow, dry and make your own crushed red pepper flakes. Good in spaghetti sauce and stir-fry and homemade pickles.

Pick them often (green or red) and have a bumper crop all season. Great flavor and medium heat. Good in salsas, added to almost any food dish for a little zip, or smoke them and grind into powder.

This pepper has done much better its second year in the ground than the first. As of June, it is producing quite a bit. It is quite thin skinned.

Not one seed out of ten sprouted. Time to get rid of it.

Another dependable variety. Red, can be enjoyed raw straight from plant; picked, allowed to wrinkle a little, greatly increases heat but still this is about medium, which is about right with a 3 yr old eating the dishes it contains.

Stunning ornamental, with glossy dark leaves and marble sized fruits which start at deep purple/black, then ripen to deep red. Good windowsill variety, because it stays compact. Flowers are gorgeous!

I love growing my little jalapeno bush…it’s incredible easy to root-bind, as it will produce at a very small size, and over-all it’s idiot-proof. Grows slowly but surely and tolerates a lot.

This is a beautiful ornamental chilli, easy to grow, easy to overwinter, and trouble free pest/disease wise: Unfortunately, the chillies don’t actually taste of much at all! Medium hot, but no flavour

A spectacular Italian chilli! Gorgeous plants, producing masses of upward facing, seriously hot fruit with a nice fruity/sweet tang in the background. Easy to grow and overwinter, no pruning needed

Great little pepper…more about the ornament than the eating, but that’s fine because it looks SO GOOD. Pure black foliage in full sun topped with violet flowers and black or scarlet peppers.

I always enjoy Cayenne types, decent heat and they dry beautifully. Yield was not superb, but that was more about the conditions than the variety. Am growing again.

I love Jalepeno types for fresh eating. Will definitely grow again.

This is my all time fave pepper. Also sometimes called Hot Banana, it’s a great combo of the sweet and the heat that is perfect for fresh eating and pickling. Love to throw slices right into pasta.

2+ Hot pepper, not a great producer here in zone 10

Medium heat, thick walled, prolific early producer here in zone 10.

4+ Prolific & early producer of short, thin walled peppers. Will crop twice if picked regularly here in Zone 10

Prolific, attractive, very long, thin walled and with few seeds. Well worth growing here.