(Note: you don’t need to set out the cages and stakes as early as I did. Use garden twine to attach the stalk of each plant to the stake for support when fruit appears. The reason for staking peppers is simple: the fruit weighs down the little pepper plants, causing them to topple over. You really get a lot of bang for buck with peppers, especially considering that bell peppers are kind of expensive at a grocery store! I’ve lost track of how many peppers I’ve grown the past six months. While tomatoes are pretty spent by late fall here in my Texas garden, the peppers are still going strong and they’ll keep producing until the first frost. I grew a row of six peppers on stakes this year: two red bell peppers, two yellow bell peppers, this purple bell pepper, and a jalapeño plant. They’re also perfect for salads! Small but tasty! The perfect size for my migas. Because of its unusual appearance, it would be a striking addition to a veggie tray. I’ve loved cooking with it all summer! None of the fruit have gotten nearly as big as my green and red peppers, but the plant has produced a ton of peppers so I don’t mind smaller fruit. This is a very tasty pepper, sweet and tender.
Only the outside of the purple sweet bell pepper is dark. Now that would be a haunted veggie garden! I got this Purple Beauty transplant from Bonnie Plants and couldn’t wait to see if the fruit really looked like the picture! Imagine if you had a whole raised bed garden with eggplant, purple sweet bell peppers, red romaine, and purple basil. I grew quite a lot of peppers in the garden this year but I thought Halloween week would be an appropriate time to tell you about growing purple sweet bell pepper since they’re so delightfully spooky looking (and since I’m still harvesting fruit well into October!).
There is something so fabulously eye-catching about purple bell peppers, don’t you think? They’re so dark, they’re nearly black.
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