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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Container Pepper Varieties

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

You’re either a pepperhead or not - and I’m certainly a pepperhead! Here are some fun varieties I recommend growing in containers or balconies.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Kevin here, blessing you with your daily

0:19.2

dose of wisdom. Today we're talking about spicy, spicy peppers. How do we grow them in

0:25.1

containers successfully? Peppers are really interesting because I think we think of

0:30.2

them as a hot plant, but you can grow mild peppers sweet peppers

0:33.9

tiny ones giant ones hot ones it's just there's such a variety in this entire

0:40.3

family of plants now I don't understand what it is. Some people grow

0:45.2

99% of their garden is peppers. Some people just don't grow any and never will.

0:50.1

But I like most of you I hope are more in the middle where you'll experiment, you'll try, see what you like.

0:56.0

So let's talk about some different peppers that will do well on balconies or in containers.

1:02.0

First of all, one of my favorite ones to go, on balconies or in containers.

1:03.0

First of all, one of my favorite ones to grow of all time,

1:06.0

and that would be Shishido peppers.

1:08.0

There are different varieties of Shishido,

1:10.0

but roughly speaking, they will all grow in a relatively similar habit so they do really

1:15.4

well they're compact but they throw out tons and tons of peppers and I think what's the

1:22.0

rule it's like one in every ten is extremely spicy and then the rest are completely fine

1:26.4

I haven't actually discovered that one in ten myself most of the shishitos I ever eat are quite mild and quite delicious.

1:34.4

And so I really highly recommend it.

1:36.6

You can do like a little Japanese mayonnaise,

1:38.7

put them in that as a dipper.

1:40.1

Oh man, it's so good.

1:41.6

Now the next one will be an early style of a

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