My First Vegetable Garden Harvest! 🌶️ Bell Peppers, Serranos, & More | Beginner Backyard Gardening

Join me in this joyful and educational episode of Love and Lettuce as I take you on a vibrant tour of my very first vegetable garden harvest! From Bell peppers and Serranos to Italian longhorns and Fresno chile’s, this video is packed with practical gardening tips for growing a variety of pepper plants in small spaces and sloped yards. Learn how to companion plant tomatoes and peppers, optimize sun and shade for plant health, and get inspired to grow your own edible garden — even as a beginner. Whether you’re interested in container gardening, companion planting, or harvesting techniques, this video is your one-stop guide to backyard vegetable gardening success. 🌱 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and stay tuned for more beginner-friendly gardening adventures!
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➡️ How to grow potatoes: https://youtu.be/sEnoizk95vs
➡️ How to setup a Dream Greenhouse: https://youtu.be/Tuetvau5fAo
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⏰ Timecodes ⏰

0:00 Introduction
0:25 Varieties of peppers
0:54 Companion plants
1:18 Anaheim pepper harvest
2:23 Anaheim – Fun facts
2:47 Layout of the yard
3:13 Bell pepper harvest
6:02 Pollinators
6:37 Bell pepper Fun fact & Scoville scale
7:15 More varieties of peppers
8:05 Italian Long Peppers
9:54 Serrano Peppers
10:50 Surprise Peppers
11:31 Jalapeno Peppers
11:41 Biquinho Peppers
12:03 Fresno Chilli Peppers
12:31 Habanero Peppers
13:10 More Bell Peppers in the greenhouse
13:48 Stuffed Pepper Dish
14:03 Wrap

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LOCATION: Zone 9B
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Hi fellow plant lovers Welcome back to Love and 
Lettuce I am Snigdha and for those who are new here I’m so glad you found your way to my little 
patch of paradise. It’s a glorious morning and I’m extremely excited today, you know why?? It’s 
harvest time This is my very first vegetable garden harvest and I’m as excited as a toddler is 
when they cut their first birthday cake… Super excited!! So grab your baskets and come with me. 
Today we are going to harvest some crispy peppers. Usually mornings are the best time to harvest most 
fruits vegetables and flowers and peppers are no exception. I have eight varieties of peppers 
growing in my yard; some are mild and some are hot. So the mild varieties include Italian 
Longhorn peppers, Bell peppers, Biquinho peppers. On the middle side, I have Anaheim peppers and 
on the hotter side, I have Serrano peppers, Jalapinos, Habaneros, and Fresno Chile peppers. 
So are you ready??? Let’s begin. Here we have a tomato plant and a pepper plant growing in 15 
gallon grow bags. For those who don’t know tomato plants and peppers are companion plants, so I had 
planted them together. Tomato plants grow very big and they give shade to the pepper plants which 
is very good for the pepper plants so that they don’t get directly scorched by sun. And you will 
see one of my peppers has been scorched by sun, so it’s always good to plant tomatoes with 
peppers. Now let’s begin harvesting. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Look at our gorgeous peppers. These are called 
Anaheim peppers and they are named after a city in California. They are usually sweet and smoky 
to taste but if grown in heated conditions they can be really spicy. So the same peppers 
grown in one garden might taste different in another garden. Isn’t that fascinating! 
Now let’s move to the next patch where Bell peppers are growing. One thing you’ll notice is 
I have to hop on from one section of the garden to another to harvest my crops because all my 
vegetable beds are spread across the yard. We live on a rolling hill the land is not flat 
and I had to make best use of whatever land was available to me. So I have utilized 
slopes, I have utilized flat lands I have utilized shaded areas under the under the 
redwoods. I have planted crops everywhere and the peppers are in the sunny spot. So let’s 
go back and harvest some bell peppers. [Music] This is my bell pepper patch and some of 
those bell peppers are ready to harvest. It’s an 8×3 ft bed and I have planted 
tons of crops in this. There are, I think, seven tomato plants four or five bell pepper 
plants some sunflowers some squashes some melons I went a little nuts with this bed. This is my first 
year of vegetable gardening, so I was practicing intensive gardening and it’s working out fine, 
you will see. So let’s harvest some peppers. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] So this is the harvest just from two places – 
the growing bags and this vegetable garden bed. We have four big Bell peppers and many Anaheim 
peppers and fun fact about Bell peppers is they are very low on Scoville scale. Scoville scale is 
basically the measurement of capsisin compound in your peppers, the compound that gives burning 
sensation and peppers are very low on Scoville scale. That’s why they are not spicy. Did you also 
know all the colored peppers that you get in the grocery store are basically green when they are 
young? So if you harvest them young they are green but if you let them mature on the wine they change 
the color and natural sugars get added in peppers and that’s how they become sweet. The variety 
of peppers that I was growing was actually green peppers. They were not going to turn colored, so I 
harvested them today. Now let’s go to the Italian long pepper patch. This is another pepper patch 
where I’m growing a variety of peppers. So we have Italian long peppers we have Serrano peppers we 
have more Bell peppers we have Bequinto peppers, that my neighbor had gifted me, a ton of pepper 
plants. Some of those pepper plants are really small and that’s because this is my first year 
of vegetable gardening and I had over-sowed seeds and I got an unexpectedly high germination 
rate. So a lot of my seedlings actually made it, but I didn’t have a heart to thin them out so I 
kept those seedlings growing and I had to find a new patch of land where I could plant those 
peppers, so here we are! The good news is I’ve heard that you can actually overwinter peppers. 
That means if you can protect your crop during the winter season they can come back to life next 
year. So I’m hoping this can be a permanent pepper patch and all these pepper plants come back next 
year. We’ll see I’ll try to protect it. So now let’s talk about this Italian long pepper. This 
is a closer look at the Italian long pepper plant, it’s also known as Bullhorn pepper because of 
its distinct bull horn-like shape. It’s a red and green variety and when fully ripened the 
red ones taste almost candy sweet. They have sweet mild flavor and have thin skin making 
them perfect for frying and roasting [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Lastly Italian long peppers are very low 
on Scoville scale. That means they are not really hot. So now, let’s talk about Serrano 
peppers. Serrano literally means “from the mountains”. So Serrano peppers are actually 
native to mountainous regions. They are hotter than Jalapenos which means they are very high on 
Scoville scale. They’re usually harvested green when they’re young but if you let the peppers 
mature on the plant they can turn red, yellow, brown, and slightly sweeter to taste. So let’s 
take a closer look at the plant. So these are Serrano peppers. I don’t think a lot of them are 
ready to harvest especially because I still see the flower the leftover flowers on them So 
I’m not going to harvest them today. Maybe I’ll harvest one pepper. This looks like the 
biggest pepper so let me harvest that [Music] So while recording this video, I noticed that 
one of my other smaller pepper plants is actually producing a small bell pepper. So let me show 
you how cute it looks. You see how tiny this bell pepper plant is? It’s actually making a fruit. Not 
sure if I should harvest it. Maybe I should. They say the more you harvest the more fruit your 
plant produces So let me harvest them [Music] [Music] These are my Jalapeno peppers. They’re not ready 
to harvest yet so we’ll talk about them the next time. This is my tiny Bequinho pepper plant, I 
think it was attacked by an animal last night I need to protect it. But Bequinho are snackable 
peppers. They are really tiny cute bright red in color and Bequinho actually means “little beak” 
in Portuguese. So once this grows, it’s going to be fun to eat. So now let’s go to other hot 
peppers are Fresno Chile peppers and Habanero. [Music] So this is a Fresno Chile pepper 
plant, as you can see it has a beautiful glow on it today. The peppers start green in 
color and as they mature they become bright red These are slightly hotter than Jalapeno 
peppers so slightly higher in Scoville scale than Jalapeno peppers. I wish I had some 
fruit to show you maybe next time. So now let’s move to the greenhouse where we have 
our last hot pepper plant Habanero peppers We are in my greenhouse now and let’s 
take a look at our Habanero peppers. [Music] This is the Habanero pepper plant and we have 
started getting some fruit These fruits grow to be orange bright orange in color so they 
are not mature yet but I’m glad I have some fruit here. I see some three peppers growing 
on this plant. Habanero peppers are hotter than Serrano peppers and significantly hotter 
than Jalapenos so be very careful when you eat them. I have a few more bell peppers at the 
back of my greenhouse, so let’s harvest them and I want to surprise my family with a bell 
pepper dish. So I hope you stay tuned [Music] Now we are going to bake some stuffed 
peppers and enjoy this beautiful day [Music] Thank you for staying along and walking with me 
through my first vegetable garden harvest I hope it was as much fun for you as it was for me and 
I hope you learned something. So if you like my video hit a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel 
for more gardening adventures Bye [Music] [Music]