Hello gardeners, happy to hear about your pepper plants and share my own pepper progress.

I have a heatless jalapeno plant that overwintered in a container pot that was brought inside and now is back outside. It has an early start with a handful of peppers on it. I like to use those for cooking.

I transplanted five Sweet Pickles pepper plants into the garden last month that was grown from seed indoors. I received the seeds from a group seed swap exchange I participated in last Fall. Plants are about a foot high now and I am starting to see the start of small flower balls on one. Looking forward to trying these for pickling. It's a small yellow heatless pepper.

Lastly, I have three smoked paprika pepper plants grown from seeds indoors. One was big enough to transplant yesterday into the garden. The other two will wait a bit to get a little bigger before transplanting outside. First time growing these and looking forward to using the peppers to ground into powder for cooking.

Happy gardening! Share pics of your pepper plants if possible. Would love to see them!

We're just growing a couple of sweet banana peppers mainly for use in omelettes, chili, and other dishes plus we freeze some too. They are almost at bloom stage now.

Out here in the mountain West we love our green chili in the fall. I planted out 10 plants each of Anaheim and Pueblo last week. Covered in a frost-fabric tunnel, as much for wind protection as temperature. Then I have about 5 jalapeno plants which some will be pickled for nachos etc, some frozen for when a dish calls for "one green chili, chopped." Six Poblanos, good for rellenos. And finally a couple of Thai hot peppers for drying and grinding up.

My seedlings are now happily planted in my garden in spite of our nearly constant wind, very strange weather here in Michigan. It's hot, windy and dry when our springs are usually cold, wet and, well, cold. :-)

I planted a couple dozen sweet peppers, including King of the North, California Wonder Gold and California Wonder Green, some lunch box peppers, Ajvarski (one of my favorites), an orange hybrid called Glow and some sweet red peppers that PartyMusic sent me that she calls Conestota. Hot peppers include Mexi-Bell, Red Biquino, Anaheim, Pasilla, Nu-Mex Joe Parker, Big Jim, Santa Fe, another from Party Music called Balloon, Black Hungarian, Sugar Rush Peach and poblano. Anything we don't use fresh is pickled, frozen in strips for fajitas and steak sandwiches or dehydrated.

Annie

I like growing peppers but not eating them. My DH requested I grow the lunchbox peppers, which I grew from seed (Johnny’s). And late in the game he told me he wanted one Jalapeno. So I bought a Bonnie plant from Lowes.

I planted them out yesterday, first day of June, which is right on track with the end of our frost warnings.