Welcome to ATP, Evoyageur -- there are lots of us here that love peppers -- some like crazy hot peppers, but I am more in your camp of peppers should add flavor. I always grow lots of jalapenos and hot banana peppers, pepperoncini, cayenne, serrano, Super Chili, things like that; I have some new varieties this year, thanks to a seed swap on the Cubits.org site -- but I can't remember the names at the moment
I grow about 30 pepper plants in total, which I mainly use for making and canning salsa and hot sauce, drying for chili powder and crushed red peppers, making and freezing "poppers," and pickling. You're going to have a LOT of peppers ... are you planning to sell them at market?
Gerry, you should easily be able to grow almost any kind of peppers... even last summer, which was exceptionally cool here (and our summers are probably always cool by many peoples' standards), my peppers grew and produced like crazy. I start my seeds about 10 weeks before I want to plant them outside (which is usually the first week in June), then around mid April I put them out in my greenhouse; I do have a ventless propane heater to use if the nighttime temp goes below 40 or so, but otherwise unheated. Then I usually cover the plants with Reemay for a couple of weeks after I first set them out, just to minimize setting them back from the transplant shock. You'll have to adjust the dates for your zone -- I consider our last frost date to be Memorial Day, although the planting calendars seem to put it a week or 2 before that, so just adjust your seed starting date, etc. depending on how different your last frost date would be. Peppers are honestly one of the easiest things to grow for me !
