PP Picked A Peck Of Purple Peppers?

[Jafo232]

I never knew peppers came in purple. When I was planting mine this year, I noticed on the label it showed a purple one, but I just thought it was a misprint, well, they started coming up:

I had to take a pic of it before I eat it. One plant seems to have these and there are about 4-5 peppers on it.

[oldbay]

Wow! I've never seen a purple pepper. Do you think you can pick a peck of them Oh, I see it's just one plant.

What do you think they'd be good in? A dish with eggplant might let you hide the color. But then maybe you want to show them off. Besides thinking of stuffed peppers and salads I'm at a loss and neither of those choices are good enough for your purple peppers. I'll ponder all night for you!

I just wish I can get a few tomatoes from the garden. It's been so dry around here this year that it's been miserable gardening.

[KYHeirloomer]

The past few years have seen a plethora of bell pepper colors hitting the market. Purple being just one of them. There's also a brown one, a chocolate (supposedly different from the brown), a gold one, and, of course, the usual yellow, red, and orange.

Once you branch out from bells, it's incredible the number of colors. Red, yellow, orange, purple, pink, blue, black, striped in various colors. There even are white ones and at least one that is green when ripe.

All this without even thinking about hot chilies.

One of my favorites is an Hungarian heirloom called Sweet Apple. The skin is yellow, when unripe---instead of the more usual green---ripening to a flame orange, then scarlet. While growing it resembles a miniature yellow delicious apple.

[oldbay]

One year I was able to grow bushels of bell peppers. But that was the year (alas) and I have had no success since. I also had tons of cubanelle peppers. Those suckers were quite prolific and we enjoyed them but for some unknown reason since then I haven't been able to grow a bell pepper. It's too late in the season now, and my early plantings succumbed to the drought around here.

[KYHeirloomer]

Bells always seem problematical, Old Bay, and I've given up trying.

Typically they go into a sort of stasis when the hot weather hits. The plants don't die, but they don't grow anymore either. They just sit there, waiting.

Then, when the nights start to cool down in late August and September, they start growing. By which time it's far too late to expect a crop.

Oddly enough, many of the other sweet peppers do just fine. And the chilies love the heat, and will drive you out.