Pepper Plant – 4" Pot

Whether you enjoy sweet peppers for fresh snacking or prefer a little heat in your cooking, these versatile plants are a rewarding addition to garden beds, raised planters, and patio containers.

Choose from four distinctive varieties, each offering its own fruit shape, colour, and flavour. From the changing colours of ‘Alter Ego’ to the mild sweetness of ‘Liberty Belle’ and ‘Sweet Banana’, or the familiar heat of Jalapeño, there's a pepper for every garden and kitchen.

Why You’ll Like It

Four Varieties to Choose From: Enjoy a selection of sweet and hot peppers to suit different tastes and recipes.

Colourful Fruit: Peppers add beautiful colour to the garden as they develop and ripen.

Fresh from the Garden: Harvest your own peppers for salads, snacks, cooking, and preserving.

Perfect for Containers: Grow in patio pots, raised beds, or sunny vegetable gardens.

Great for Home Cooking: Use fresh peppers in stir-fries, salsas, fajitas, sauces, and grilled dishes.

Easy to Incorporate: The convenient 4" pot size makes these plants easy to transplant into your garden or a larger container.

Ornamental Appeal: Colourful developing fruit adds visual interest to edible garden spaces.

Sun-Loving Plants: Peppers perform best in a warm, sunny location with consistent moisture.

Enjoy a Homegrown Harvest: Pick peppers at different stages of maturity for varying colours and flavours, depending on the variety.

Choose Your Variety

Pepper ‘Alter Ego’ (Green/Red): A colourful sweet pepper variety that transitions from green to red as the fruit ripens. Enjoy its crisp texture and sweet flavour in salads, fresh dishes, or cooked recipes.

Jalapeño (Green): A popular medium-hot pepper with thick, crisp green fruit and a distinctive spicy flavour. Perfect for fresh salsa, nachos, poppers, sauces, and adding heat to your favourite meals.

Pepper ‘Liberty Belle’ (Green/Yellow): A sweet bell pepper variety producing colourful fruit that develops from green to yellow as it matures. Its mild flavour and crisp texture make it delicious for fresh snacking, salads, stuffing, and cooking.

Sweet Banana (Yellow/Red): An elongated sweet pepper with a mild, tangy flavour. Fruit typically develops from pale yellow to orange and red as it ripens. Delicious fresh, pickled, grilled, or added to sandwiches and salads.

Great For

Vegetable gardens • Patio containers • Raised garden beds • Fresh snacking • Homemade salsa • Grilling and cooking • Pickling • Summer harvests

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Plant details

Scientific Name

Capsicum annuum

Light

Full Sun

Water

Peppers prefer consistent moisture with well-draining soil for healthy growth and strong fruit production. Water deeply when the top layer of soil begins to dry, especially during warm weather and when plants are flowering or producing peppers. Avoid overwatering or allowing plants to sit in soggy soil.

Care Level

Peppers are productive and rewarding plants that thrive with full sun, warm temperatures, consistent watering, and occasional feeding. Provide support if plants become heavy with fruit. Great for garden beds, raised planters, and patio containers.

Optimal Temperature

18–30°C

Frost Tolerant

No

Deer Resistant

No

Edible

Yes

Pet Friendly

No