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7 Ways You Can Better Market Sweet Peppers

Peppers have lots of potential. You can grow different colours, sell the plants, market to restaurants, host tastings and make value-added products. Peppers don’t quite give you as many options as, say, garlic , but here are a few ways you might not have considered for peppers to bring something new to your market table, and your wholesale customers. 1. Sell pepper plants Almost invariably, because I love to grow peppers, I start more plants than I need. But this works out well because selling starts is relatively easy so long as the plants look healthy and are in a nice package. Plants not only make a good addition to the early season market table, but they are a good way to start engaging the first customers of the year and getting them interested in your goods. 2. Grow ornamental peppers If you really enjoy selling plants, you could consider growing some decorative, ornamental pepper plants. These are multi-coloured peppers whose plants can be sold young with the promise o