I admit it, I am a sucker for a crude joke, a bit of innuendo or some banter with my male friends. I am also a dedicated gardener, with my preferred plant being vegetables of any kind. Therefore can you imagine my delight when I discovered a website that told me I could grow a variety of chili pepper (or chilli pepper in the UK), called a Peter (Penis) Pepper. This pepper plant was apparently voted ‘Most Pornographic Vegetable’ by an Organic Gardening Magazine, and once I saw the pictures of it, it was easy to see why. Peter Penis Peppers can be grown in red, green or yellow, and the majority of them come out looking distinctly like a penis in shape, so much so it is scary. They are also extremely hot in flavour, and are apparently 10 times hotter than a jalapeno chili pepper according to the scoville scale that measures the heat levels of chilli peppers. The site I discovered this article on was a mine of information on growing vegetables at home, and I have bookmarked it for future use. I have also followed the advice on the article How to Grow Yourself a Hot Peter (Penis) Pepper, and managed to achieve a good degree of success. I also gave away a number of my plants to friends who were fascinated by the idea of growing a penis shaped chili pepper. The seeds for the Peter (Penis) Pepper are now increasingly rare and hard to get hold of!! I found my seeds on a specialist site for heirloom vegetables, and I shall definitely grow more of these next year. I reckon there could be quite a market for selling these plants at local car boot sales and fetes, as people are clearly highly amused by the idea of growing a pepper that looks distinctly pornographic in nature. This is definitely one good reason why you should grow vegetables at home 
