just got back from sams club. green bell peppers 1$ each. guess I'll try planting some of those. do you test the ph of your soil? to see if it really needs lime?
At times bell peppers and tomatoes can get expensive. Bell peppers and tomatoes were the two items that were recommended to start in small planters before moving outdoors, most everything else was recommended to just throw in the ground. My luck with the bell peppers has been hit and miss, some years I have a bumper crop and the plants are falling over from the weight. Some years I am lucky if I can keep the plants alive.
I got my 28x3 down the back of the house, 21x3 down one side, 12x4 raised bed, 8x4 raised bed in the back yard, and on the other side of the house I'm going to put some watermelon seeds out and mow around them. 
I can grow just about anything, and do it well...but maters are one plant I have serious trouble with. They simply frustrate the crap out of me. I bought 2 mater plants at Wally the other day for 94c each. I will transplant them and that will be the extent of my mater experience for the year. I give up on them
My wife picked up a few mater transplants at the farmers market two weeks ago. The old farmer she bought them from told her to plant the entire mater halfway in the ground. I have never planted one that deep before but he told her that all of the small hairs coming off the main stalk were roots waiting to take hold and sure enough that plant took off, its 4 times the size after just a couple of weeks.
Yeah, maters(and peppers) can form roots from the stem. I always bury 80% of the plant when I transplant them
