For a pretty pepper that tastes good. Forms a small bush. Try Aji Charapita. I got mine From baker creek. The round orange peppers were really pretty on the plant And tasted good. Spicy and fruity. I froze them in a pint container to cook with. But the plant itself was attractive too. Could be planted anywhere

For some reason,I didn't get the notification for this one? Or maybe I missed seeing it? Definitely a interesting one. Do you have any plans,for it? Once it gets all useable?

Now thats a beautiful harvest

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What a GREAT video. THANK YOU. You’ve produced the most comprehensive tomato sampler video in all of YT world and done a phenomenal job. Thank you so very much!

missed ya!!! hau’oli makahiki hou! (happy new year in hawaiian)

These are the best taste test video's I have ever seen and I have watched a ton.. Love the detail and bringing your friend on. I am going to try some new varieties. Thank you for the details of the cards and rating systems and showing the fruit and plants. I've watched more than once. I hope you do it every year!

Hi Mark, great harvest! How do you keep the critters at bay so they don't use your garden as their smorgasbord? I've addressed the deer, but it's the squirrels, chipmunks, and raccoons that I don't know what to do about!

I can’t think of a better way to spend some time enjoying your hot pepper harvest vid while yet another Winter storm of sleet, ice and snow bears down on our farm. This brought a big smile to my face and has me hankering for some Spring Garden planning as we look forward to Spring. Sure did miss ya. Thanks for inviting us to your pickup truck!

Cannot tolerate the hot peppers but do always grow jalapenos for friends who like them.

Welcome back. Your insights and guidance are needed now more than ever as we enter these increasing times of food shortage and costs. About 10 years ago I observed the Back To Eden gardening method. I got the power line company to drop all their regional chips in a field next to my gardens. Over two years I covered the soil to about 8 inches depth. The first couple of years I would have to dig down through the chips to rich original soil in order to plant. But on the Gulf Coast chips pretty much totally decompose in 2 to 3 years. I had about 8 truck loads sitting to one side when I finished and over four years, they went from seven feet high to 2 feet as they rotted to worm cast black gold. That I use in my hoop houses and raised beds. I was lucky enough to become friends with a tree service again and they are now dropping loads when working near here. I will continue to get them till I have no space to dump more. I do raised beds, hoop houses, greenhouse, permaculture and traditional row beds. The past two years I have taught three families to grow a large portion of their own food, and this year many more are asking for guidance on how to garden in the deep south. Last year I began adding the JADAM methods to fertilizing and pest control and initial results are good. This year I will be doing comparison gardening to my past methods and JADAM. With the loss of commercial fertilizer from the market JADAM may become a life saver.

Great video Mark. Do you have any recommendations for newbies that are looking for a HOT pepper to grow in zone 9A ? We grew peppers last year but they were very small and not very hot lol Cheers Mark from Victoria Canada

Hi Mark! I dropped you an email re tomato swaps as discussed last year 🥴 not sure if you’ve seen! 👌🏼

Hey Mark - great video as always. I had only two small pepper plants this year - one Anaheim chili and one jalapeno that they gave me a great fall harvest. Ended up making chili rellenos with the Anaheims and then a lot of salsa with the jalapenos and gifted the rest. I ended up not pulling out my plants and they are still producing - being in AZ, I guess I could do that. My question for you is do you keep your pepper plants. I heard they have a shallow root system and you can actually trim them back to the the first "Y" in the stem and dig them up and pot them and then replant in the Spring. Just wondering if you ever tried this. I wish I had the space to do so many varieties of peppers!

I did this with a seasonally swampy area on my property about 3+yrs ago. some areas are 3ft thick. My soil before was hard clay. The earth worms are back, the chips are all black now but still look like a chip. The ones at the top are sun bleached and didnt rot well but that's fine with me. I planted norway spruce in there for a visual barrier to my neighbors.

When drying these peppers do you cut them open? I have sometimes the problem that some of the thicker ones with more flesh can develop mold inside while drying...

Hi Mark! Those are some amazing peppers! I grew jalapeño and shishito peppers this past year and had an amazing harvest. Nothing like yours though! I made cowboy candy out of a lot of the jalapeños. I have enough for a long time! lol. Great video! Have a great day Mark.

Not a fan of hot peppers but watched to support you!

But, but, but....no Antep Aci Dolma 😜

Here it is the first of February and Spring is just a few weeks away. Great to see some new gardening videos that get me thinking of my "front porch of flowers". Great video, Mark. Hope you're doing fantastic and look forward to your next video!

Mark, thank you for the video. Lulú

Thanks for sharing Mark, the Jamaican hot chocolate was one of the peppers I grew up on. You dear not act like you want to use too much of it, just a small piece will give you all the heat that you need. My family uses spices alot, it is said that Indians love spicy food and so this is why even at a tender age my taste buds got accustomed to the flavor of those peppers.

Fantastic video. You have such a nice, easy style of presenting that is both educational and entertaining while also being incredibly considerate of your audience and your subject matter. It’s just a joy. I’m watching this on a very cold February morning, and it’s such a nice treat to have a video so ripe with color on this bleak winter morning. What a nice treat. Thank you, again. I hope that you are nice and cozy as yet another winter storm moves east.

I've never seen a great comparison of my favorite peppers Sweet Bells.,Knowing some do better in Northern states and different areas and sizes Show bell peppers please

Great video as usual, always educational with that welcoming vibe. For those who are able to do what gives them joy, cherish it. Down this side in Trinidad we grow a lot of HOT- scotch bonnets, habanero, congo peppers ,scorpion peppers, bird pepper (it grows wild in the garden), jalapenjo and some other hot ones. We love the heat, if not seasoning food with it, in many dishes we place a whole half ripe congo pepper in the pot just give that spicy caribbean flavour, many are made into hot flavourful pepper sauces, or we roast them served as a condiment with "Doubles" one of our amazing street side foods. In the non Hot bracket Pimento peppers ( an absolutely great seasoning pepper) , bell peppers and sweet peppers. So your pepper choices have peaked my curiosity, will try to grow the "Lemon drop" and maybe the "banana pepper" hopefully I get that kind of yield. Thanks Mark ! Happy Gardening .

Another good video. Nice looking harvest! Looking forward to hearing what you are growing this season. For hotter peppers, I am trying a mix (for fun), my usual poblano and sugar rush peach. Monster Gum Peach Leopard, cubanelle. Ordered some seeds from Finland for the Sugar Rush Stripey, hope I actually receive them... I don't have much of a taste for raw hot peppers (I am a baby), but I am expanding my tolerance for heat by making some hotter dishes. I hope you do a video of how you make hot sauce, I think a lot of people would love to see that process. Thanks again, Mark.

Can you advise how you feed your tomato plants...they seem very vigorous. Blossom End Rot is typically a Calcium deficiency....too much Nitrogen will sometimes disable the plant from taking up available Calcium.

Blondkoepfchen....Blond is blonde, Kopf is a head, Koepfchen is a small head, example a child's head....the "chen" is indicative of something small and cute. Hybridizing can make the resulting plant more Precocious...its a term also used for Apple Trees.

Mark. What do you do to your soil to get such huge pepper plants? I can't believe the size of those! Please respond

Wow, I didn't know pepper plants grow that big! Impressive pepper harvest Mark, thank you for sharing!

Hey 👋 Mark! So good to see you again in a new video and boy that is some amount of chili 🌶 you got last season, there all look so beautiful and even the plant looks so green and strong too. Hope you’re doing well, unfortunately I tested positive to COVID on Sunday so I have been at home in my room for days and luckily it’s not too bad in fact it is less then when I have a cold. My bell peppers 🫑 are doing so well and all my tomatoes are also doing well and I can’t wait to show you at the end of our season what I ended up with 😃 Best Gabby

That's a great haul of peppers, but seeing those green plants and grass sure increases spring fever in February while everything is covered in snow drifts. I'm ready to trade the snow shovel for a garden shovel. lol

As a french speaking guy I am, I didn't know the meaning of harvest. So when I saw your video's cover picture I thought "Is he really gonna taste all these peppers like he does with apples? Wow, he's a hero! (but there must be firefighters around with a tank full of milk and sugar to put the flames out of his mouth.)" 😂😂😂 One more good video, thanx Mark 👍😉 I almost can't eat peppers, only sweet ones, but it's really interesting as always.

Great,now I have to add more varieties to my list for this year.

i made fermented hot sauce from carolina reapers a buddy gave me this fall. mixed in some thai dragons i grew. i gallon bag of carolina reapers i made into 12oz of hot sauce. my buddy used his 4 oz bottle in 3 weeks. i use mine a drop at a time. nice truck!!

Great to see you back, thanks for the video!

I love the colours of the peppers..and they are huge!

You left 2/3 of the peppers on the plants? I’ll be right there! 😉😂

what a bountiful harvest. Its so nice that you share with family and friends. Thats the best part of gardening for me, sharing with neighbors, family and friends. Your videos are such a joy to watch.

Oh my lord I've never seen pepper plants that tall. Is that one plant? I don't grow hot peppers; just the ol sweet bell peppers. Wow, that's a heck of a harvest.

I'm glad you clarified this was recorded in November. When you said 1st frost, I almost had to replay it lol. Thank you for your videos. Always a pleasure.

You deserve success in selling your crop. Would you consider cutting a 2in. notch in your top board every 4ft. or so to allow heavy rains to escape when they come from time to time. Ralph from Brooklyn.

Wonderfully educational video.. thanks

great video. It would be nice to see some follow-up recipes and some finished product in a later video. Hope the storm that is coming doesn't dump too much on you.

A respectable harvest you have there. What is your go-to dish with peppers for dinner Mark? Like you, I cannot tolerate too much heat.

OMG... Wow!!! Nice crop of peppers you have their! I had no idea those plans would get so big when you planted them! Thanks so much for sharing.

Congrats on a wonderful harvest, Mark! So nice to see your garden in retrospect. You've given me a couple of ideas with this one. Thanks for the great video!

Thank you Sir Mark! Nice place,and very informative,I love those green plants and very colorful pepper,we mixed that red pepper in our Filipino" Pancit food tradition".

Hello Mark, nice pepper harvest. Just last night I pulled out some I'd dehydrated to use in pasta sauce. Unfortunately I'd mislabeled what I expected to have been a mix of sweet chocolate and Marconi Rosso. They were cayene and Jalapeños which made the sauce a lil bit spicy but still pretty flavorful. Those are the hottest I grow and will eat. Take care

Nice to see a new video ❤️ from you,😊