Peppers

Peppers are a popular vegetable to grow in Florida gardens, and with such a wide variety of choices, it's no wonder. There are tiny peppers grown solely for ornamentation, there are Datil peppers, long-grown in St. Augustine, sweet bell peppers and hot chilis.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Peppers: An All-American Favorite for Centuries
• Vegetable Planting Monthly Calendar for North Florida

UF/IFAS Publications

• Florida Food Fare: Peppers (PDF)
• Florida Gardening Vegetable Guide
• Marinated Peppers
• Pepper, Chili—Capsicum annuum L. and Capsicum frutescens L.
• Pepper, Datil—Capsicum sinense Jacques
• Pickled Hot Peppers
• Pretty Peppers Decorate Gardens (PDF)
• A Series on Diseases in the Florida Vegetable Garden: Pepper

Also on Gardening in a Minute

• Ornamental Peppers
• Ornamental Vegetables

Other Sites

• Easy Gardening: Peppers--Texas Cooperative Extension
• Growing Peppers in the Home Garden--Ohio State University Extension
• Home Garden Bell Pepper Production--North Carolina State University Department of Horticulture
• New Ornamental Peppers Stand Out in Landscape--eXtension.org
• Peppers--University of Illinois Extension