Hi never-give-up. Piquin/tampiquin/chiltepin peppers are among the oldest and the hottest peppers grown. They are about 1/2 in. long x 1/4 wide and depending on the type round/blunt/pointed. If you put one in your mouth, believe me, you'll never do it again. I grew a couple bushes ( they're about 2 ft. tall, 16 in. wide and bushy) 20 years ago. I fill 4 cup jars with dried peppers and gave baggies full away to some brave friends all from 2 plants. I have been using them, a couple at a time, in soups and stews, curries, and chili since and am almost out, so time to grow some more. Birds like them so you have to keep an eye out ( they're called bird peppers sometimes). Tam jalapeno are about 1/5 as hot as a regular jalapeno, otherwise they are the same. I like to stuff them with fresh herbs and cream cheese and two bites and gone. I've never grown pasillo bajio before, but from what I've read they are 1/5-1/10 as hot as a jalapeno. They are a chili type pepper, about 6-8 in. long, all twisty and wrinkled, and turn burgundy/brown when fully ripe. They have a smokey flavor and are used raw, cooked, or dried for use in mole. As I like my peppers raw or dry some for cooking they sound interesting and I cant wait to try some on the grill. The giant marconi is kinda like a cross between a cubanelle and a bell. Longer and more tapered than a bell but just as blocky and meaty. It is a sweet pepper. The corno di toro ( bull's horn) is long and tapered, not quite as big at the shoulders, has kinda a twist to it like a bull's horn and meaty. It is a sweet pepper also. Commercial growers start their seed in flats, sprinkling seed on a bed of soil, then covering with a 1/4 in. or so more. When the first true leaves show they "prick" them, lift them with a thin spatula deal and transplant them into cell packs. Many home gardeners do the same. I did it for years. Today lots of BIG commercial growers use plug trays and then sell them as plugs (7/8 in. around 2 1/2-3 in. deep) for the green house or nursery to plant out to larger pots. I have noticed in recent years many more tomatoes and peppers sold by greenhouses in 6 pack. Hence you really don't need to transplant if you don't want to. I like to repot my tomatoes because I can bury most of the plant and it will root and when I plant out I'll have a nice big healthy root ball to boost it's growth. I'll strip most of the bottom leaves and bury it a foot or more deep. So that said, unless they are seriously pot bound, if a greenhouse can grow supper peppers in a six pack so can you. You must try different things and find what works/is comfortable for you. I will watch my peppers and may or may not repot. Depends how they look and whether the spring is going to be long and cold and wet or if it warms up fast and stays that way. Also if you're thinking of planting some in containers save yourself the hassle and extra transplant shock and just repot to the container when they're ready. If it gets cold and crappy you can always move the container inside. A little bit of fish/kelp fertilizer won't hurt. As most growing mediums contain nutrients you probably don't need to but 1/4-1/2 the regular dose periodically will supply some trace elements. The most important thing for all flowering and fruiting plants is phosphorus. It promotes strong roots, flowers and ergo, fruit. potassium is next. It promotes strong, healthy stalks, disease resistance, and helps the plant use available nitrogen. Nitrogen is good but too much makes all leaf and no fruit or flower. The best thing you can do is test your garden soil. Buy a cheap multi use soil test kit and test spring and fall. "Most" vegetables prefer slightly acid soil, potatoes are one exception. Beans don't like too much nitrogen (they make their own) . If your soil needs phosphorus, a handfull of bone meal worked into the soil around the base of the plant will provide a natural, slow release source all summer. If you don't mind "not quite organic" methods, shultz's Tomato Expert can be used on all your vegies, from seedlings, right up to harvest. Hope this helps. Happy gardening.

I've grown Pinetree's Lettuce Mix in the past with decent results. I've also grown Horn of Plenty and plan to grow them again next year. They don't get as big as other crooknecks, but they keep pumping out the fruit. The male flowers have very little pollen. In the past, I have noticed a better crop from the ones planted near the pumpkins, so that's where they get planted from now on, for cross-pollination. For zucchini, I plant Jackpot. They're parthenocarpic, so don't need pollination, however they crop better with it. They also get planted near the pumpkins. For Winter Squash, I will be planting New England Pie Pumpkin, Connecticut Field Pumpkin, Sweet Dumpling, an heirloom 5-10 lb blue/grey/green hubbard, and a 1-2 lb heirloom butternut, along with several trial cultivars. Except for the trial cultivars, all of these have proven to be good reliable croppers. Even so, I don't beleive putting all my eggs in one basket. For carrots, I will be planting Oxheart (SSE strain) and Red-Cored Chantenay. They both grow well in my soil. Beets, I will be planting Giant Half Mangel. It grows well in any soil, has good greens, and it resistant to nematodes, unlike other cultivars which are supposed to be. In good soil, it will grow HUGE roots, but in poor rocky soil, it will still crop dependable parsnip sized roots. It is white and yellow, no red to stain anything. It is often grown for fodder, however it cooks up fine, better than some other beets. Onions: Topsetting onions. We have problems with onion maggots so cannot grow regular onions. We also grow leeks in the form of elephant garlic, which is just a cultivar of bulb-multiplier leek, usually grown for the bulbs. We just harvest some for the greens instead of the bulbs. We also grow ramps. Cucumbers: For main crops, we will be planting Lemon (Fedco), Cross Country, Sweet Success, and Sweet Slice. They all do well for us. In case you're interested, we have found that the black spined cultivars grow best for us in the open-pollinated category. Don't know why, they just generally do much better than the white spined ones. Good luck.

Okay, here's my list! As you can see it's a real mix of veggies, herbs, and annual and perennial flowers. :-) (BTW - the formatting of posts sure leaves a lot to be desired in terms of flexibility and formatting it the way you want to! Oh well, hopefully it's legible.) AMARANTH Golden Giant Greek ARTICHOKE Imperial Star Purple of Romagna BEAN, FRESH Kentucky Wonder Empress Contender Asian Winged Red-Seeded Asparagus BEAN, SOUP Hutterite October Tiger's Eye Jacob's Cattle Gasless Speckled Cranberry Cherokee Trail Good Mother Stallard BROCCOLLI Packman De Cicco BROCCOLLI RAAB, Zamboni BROOM CORN SSE mix CARROT Scarlet Nantes Chantenay Thumbelina Purple Dragon CAULIFLOWER, Early Snowball CUCUMBER Lemon Crystal Apple County Fair Hybrid Mexican Sour Gherkin Early Fortune Richmond Green Apple Poona Kheera Thai EGGPLANT Fairy Tale Hybrid Rosa Bianca Japanese White Egg Thai Long Green Thai Dark Round Green ORNAMENTAL Gourd Mix KOHLRABI, Kolibri LETTUCE Black Seeded Simpson Salad Bowl Mesclun Mix MALABAR SPINACH MELON Noir des Carmes Delice de Table Early Silver Line Charantais Ambrosia Ananas d'Amerique a Chair Verte Tigger Collective Farm Woman MUSTARD, Southern Giant ONIONS (thanks to Dawn!) PEA Sugar Snap Oregon Giant Oregon Sugar II PEPPER Blushing Beauty Garden Sunshine Golden Bell Jupiter Sweet Banana Orange Bell Purple Beauty Tolli's Sweet Italian Bounty Hybrid Fat 'n Sassy Giant Aconcagua Giant Marconi Hybrid Golden Marconi Socrates X3r Hybrid Sweet Spot X3r Sweet Cayenne POTATO (all they had at the feed store...) Red LaSoda Yukon Gold PUMPKIN, Small Sugar RADISH Cherry Belle French Breakfast SPINACH, Bloomsdale SUNBERRY SQUASH, SUMMER z. Italian Harvest Multipick z. Eight Ball z. Black Beauty SQUASH, WINTER Waltham Butternut Potmarron Lakota Queensland Blue Buttercup Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Sweet Dumpling Gold Nugget Buttercup Rouge Vif d'Etampes TOMATILLO, Dr. Wyche Yellow WATERMELON Moon and Stars Crimson Sweet Blacktail Mountain ORIENTAL GREEN Shanghai Green Choy Extra Dwarf Pak Choy ANNUAL & PERENNIAL FLOWERS AMARANTHUS (ornamental only) Autumn Palatte Magic Fountains Coral Fountain ANGELONIA BACOPA BEGONIA Show Angels Mix Nonstop CALENDULA Triangle Flashback Flashback Citrus Smoothies Apricot & Oranges Pink Surprise Chrysantha Citrus Cocktail Porcupine CLEOME Violet Queen Rose Queen COLEUS, Giant Exhibition COREOPSIS COSMOS Cosmic Orange Bright Lights Polidor Mix Sunrise Yellow Garden Redcrest FOUR O'CLOCK, Marrakesh GAILLARDIA Arizona Sun aristata mix GAZANIA, Daybreak Petticoat Mix GERANIUM Inspire Appleblossom Horizon Rose Ice Orbit Salmon GODETIA GOMPHRENA, Strawberry Field HELIOTROPE Mini Marine Blue Wonder "garden" (heirloom) HOLLYHOCK Fig Happy Lights mix Single Mix Spring Celebrities HYACINTH BEAN VINE IMPATIENS, Fanciful Mix Improved MILLET, Foxtail White Wonder NASTURTIUM Caribbean Cocktail Alaska NICOTIANA langsdorfii sylvestris Tinkerbell Marshmallow Lousiana Piroque NICONDRA, Splash of Cream PETUNIA, Aladdin Nautical Mix POPPY o. 'Coral Reef' p. 'Angel's Choir' Danish Flag Imperial Pink Heirloom Corn poppy RUDBECKIA Cappuccino Spotlight Autumn Colors Goldstrum Cherry Brandy Prairie Sun RUELLIA SALVIA f. Victoria coccinea Coral Nymph SUNFLOWER Van Gogh Mix Arikara Mix Italian White PRAIRIE SUNFLOWER Ox Eye THUNBERGIA TITHONIA VERBASCUM Southern Charm Snow Maiden Copper Rose YARROW Summer Berries Love Parade ZINNIA white star Apricot Blush Whirligig profusion, Apricot profusion, Coral Pink profusion, double golden profusion, deep apricot profusion, white Bennary's Giant, Orange Bennary's Giant, White Bennary's Giant, Salmon Rose Bennary's Giant, Lime Bennary's Giant, Golden Yellow Bennary's Giant, Coral Bennary's Giant, Bright Pink Starbright Mix Old Mexico LADY'S MANTLE, Thriller HERBS - BASIL Genovese Sweet Poppy Joe's Thai Holy Kaprao BORAGE BRONZE FENNEL CATMINT Felix blue carpet Select Blue CATNIP CHIVES CHINESE CHIVES CILANTRO CULANTRO aka Vietnamese Coriander ECHINACEA White Swan Magnus Bravado Yellow (native wild) Prima Donna Deep Rose Prairie Splendor THYME English (vulgaris, sometimes also called German) and creeping LEMON GRASS PARSLEY SAGE common white broad leaf SUMMER SAVORY GREEK OREGANO Here's looking forward to it all going great guns and a happy planting season! Ada

Pepper Joe advertises a Black Jalapeno."A really cool Jalapeno Pepper. All Jalapeno's are prone to getting a black 'blush' on their shoulder...the side facing the sun. This Black Jalapeno was bred to be almost totally black. It is sweet and tasty. Show this beauty off to your neighbors and gardening buds. It is very easy to grow and is ideal for container gardening. Very prolific. Ever try a Black Jalapeno pepper sauce? Delicious.." Never tried it. Many varieties are almost black just before ripening to red. Taste is relative. Hottest I have grown is Jalapeno M. Billy Biker is reported as hotter. I prefer Jalapenos in the 5000- 6000 scu range. Mildest that I have grown TAM mild. Hvae not tried Fooled You or False Alarm as a jalapeno with no heat has little appeal for me. Most rare, Smoke would have to answer that as I mostly look for disease resistance and productivity which means commercial varieties. I am currently growing Chichimeca, but am going to trial El Ray or Colima next year if I am still around. Possibly even PS 11435810. As for a list of names, one of the most complete is in plantfiles. We are not allowed to link to that website here. Ixtapa