Hot Banana Peppers: Our Backyard Vegetable Garden

We always grow hot peppers in our backyard vegetable garden. We like to plant different hot pepper varieties each year. This year, we planted a hot pepper variety called hot banana pepper, a variety that, before this year, we never planted in our backyard vegetable garden.

While shopping at the local discount store, my husband bought some hot pepper plants for our backyard vegetable garden. The only variety of hot peppers that the store was selling was the hot banana pepper, so he bought some of these hot yellow pepper plants.

The hot yellow banana pepper was a new variety of pepper for us. We never bought this variety of hot pepper in the supermarket and neither of us had ever eaten this variety of hot pepper. We were not sure how hot the yellow banana pepper would taste. After tasting one pepper, to me they are hot but tasty.

So far the hot pepper plants produced quite a few of these hot yellow banana peppers this summer. They are hot, at times a bit too hot for me. We bought a few of the hot yellow banana peppers to my dad when we visited him for his birthday in July, and he liked them. My dad and my husband like them more than me because they both like very hot peppers.

Before we eat the hot yellow banana pepper, we wash it then cut it into thin slices and enjoy eating it raw. So far this year we have eaten it in a green salad, with beans, and with pasta and tomato sauce. The hot yellow banana peppers are crunchy, juicy, and full of flavor!

This is my third article about our backyard vegetable garden. If you would like to read my article about yellow squash click here and to read my article about cucumbers click here.

Neither of us planted hot pepper seeds indoors earlier this year, so we had to purchase the hot pepper plants at the local discount store. Next year we have to plant the seeds indoors so the plants will be ready to plant in the garden when spring arrives. My favorite hot pepper is the cherry pepper, while my husband's favorite hot pepper is the cayenne. Hopefully, these will be the hot pepper varieties we grow from seeds next year.

The time we spend in our backyard vegetable garden is pleasurable. It is nice to spend time together outside as we work in the vegetable garden. We also like to eat the homegrown vegetables the garden gives us because they taste yummy.