small peppers

I wondered why my bell peppers were so small.

Just read Dan Gill:
Every home gardener who grows bell peppers complains about the size. There's not much I can tell you to do. The beautiful peppers you see in the supermarket were not grown locally. Really, all you can do is provide the best care you can -- which you and your neighbor have been doing. When selecting what varieties to grow, look for bell peppers that produce unusually large fruit. An example would be Big Bertha. Since you will not reliably be able to find large-fruited varieties at the local nurseries, you may have to order seeds and grow transplants yourself. One other important point: Bell peppers are always small from mid-June to October because of the extreme heat here. Our largest bell peppers are harvested in May and early June and in October, November and early December.

But since my goal isn't to stuff them, doesn't matter to me - small is just fine!

By the way, if you don't grow them yourself, bell peppers are one of those things most important to buy organic because they're one of five vegetables most likely to expose us to pesticides. (The others are celery, kale, lettuce, and carrots - all very easy to grow organically in New Orleans!)