Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. Today we're going to

discuss growing bell peppers which are probably the most classic pepper you'll

find at least at the grocery store.

Now of course they're closely related to many other pepper species, your

Halapenos, your habaneros, some of those hotter and spicier relatives,

but bell peppers lack capsaicin, which is the chemical responsible for the heat.

That's why they are classified as a sweet pepper. Now you can grow these as annuals, but really all peppers you can perennialize so long as you don't have a winter killing frost

or you take them indoors so they don't completely die. That's kind of the story of another episode though because we do want to get into some

juicy, juicy bell pepper goodness, some varieties you may enjoy.

Gourmet, beautiful orange hue, thick juicy walls and resistant to the tobacco

mosaic virus. Then you've got gypsy

that'll start out green yellow orange and then red and it grows quite quickly

65 days after transplant. Sweet Cherry is another one. Chocolate pepper is a really interesting one as well.

The color is not quite chocolate I would say it's more of like a reddish brown and the flesh is red.

Of course it doesn't taste like chocolate but it is extra sweet.

Okay now let's talk about planting bell peppers. It's a good idea to start these guys indoors.

I know if you're listening to this at the time of release then good idea to start these guys indoors.

I know if you're listening to this at the time of release,

then it's probably a little late

to be starting your peppers indoors

unless you're in a really warm area

in which you can actually get a secondary crop. So you may want to start some right now. In normal situations you'd start

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