Pepper Plant – 3 Gal Pot

Grow your own delicious harvest with a 3 Gal Potted Pepper Plant. Perfect for home vegetable gardens, patios and sunny outdoor spaces, these established pepper plants are ready to bring fresh flavour and vibrant colour to your summer growing season. Choose from a selection of sweet and spicy varieties to suit your favourite recipes and tastes.

Whether you love the heat of jalapeños, the versatility of bell peppers or the mild sweetness of banana peppers, there is a variety for every kitchen. Grow them in a sunny garden bed or keep them close to the kitchen in a patio container for easy access to fresh peppers throughout the season.

Why You'll Like It

Fresh Homegrown Flavour: Enjoy the satisfaction of harvesting your own peppers for salads, grilling, roasting, stuffing and everyday cooking.

Established 3 Gal Plant: A generous pot size provides a substantial plant ready to continue growing in the right conditions.

Variety for Every Taste: Choose from sweet bell peppers, mild banana peppers or spicy jalapeños to suit your preferred level of heat.

Colourful Harvest: Many pepper varieties change colour as they mature, adding beautiful green, yellow and red tones to your garden and kitchen.

Perfect for Sunny Gardens: Peppers thrive in warm, sunny locations where they can receive plenty of light throughout the growing season.

Great for Patio Growing: Keep your pepper plants close to the kitchen in a sunny outdoor space for convenient harvesting.

Versatile in the Kitchen: Use your harvest fresh, roasted, grilled, stuffed, pickled or added to your favourite sauces and meals.

Long Summer Harvest: With warmth, regular watering and proper care, pepper plants can continue producing fruit through the growing season.

Fun to Grow: Watch flowers develop into peppers and enjoy picking fruit at different stages of maturity.

Excellent for Home Gardeners: A rewarding choice for beginners and experienced vegetable growers alike.

Choose Your Variety

Alter Ego: A colourful pepper variety that transitions from green to red as the fruit matures. A versatile choice for adding colour and flavour to fresh dishes and cooked meals.

Jalapeño: A classic green hot pepper with a distinctive spicy kick. Perfect for salsa, nachos, poppers, homemade hot sauce and Mexican-inspired dishes.

Liberty Belle: A sweet bell pepper variety with green fruit that matures to yellow. Enjoy its crisp texture in salads, stir-fries, roasting and stuffing.

Sweet Banana: A mild, elongated pepper that typically matures from yellow toward red. Delicious fresh, grilled, roasted or pickled.

Great For

Home vegetable gardens • Sunny patios • Outdoor containers • Fresh salads • Grilling and roasting • Stuffed peppers • Salsa and sauces • Pickling • Homegrown summer harvests

Variety

Wholesale: Please refer to the Hilltop Greenhouses Ltd. Policies PDF for full details.

Retail: No returns on plants, exchanges only.

Plant details

Scientific Name

Capsicum annuum

AKA

Pepper

Light

Full Sun

Water

Prefers consistently moist, well-drained soil. Water deeply 2–3 times per week during hot weather, especially while flowering and producing fruit. Avoid letting the soil dry out completely, as inconsistent watering can reduce yields and cause blossom end rot.

Care Level

Easy to grow with regular watering, occasional fertilizing, and harvesting. Benefits from staking or caging taller varieties and consistent moisture for the healthiest plants and best fruit production.

Optimal Temperature

21–30°C (70–86°F) – Thrives in warm, sunny conditions. Peppers produce the healthiest plants and highest yields when daytime temperatures remain between 21–30°C (70–86°F).

Frost Tolerant

No

Deer Resistant

No

Edible

Yes

Pet Friendly

Yes

Toxic

No