I should have dried our ornamental peppers. We had three varieties this year: Medusa (look like your red/cream ones), Black Pearl, and Marbles, which really did look just like red and yellow marbles. My two boys, 9 and 12, bought them at a farmer's market and planted them, and just had such a blast watching them grow and set fruit this year. They are buried under 3" of snow at the moment.
For someone who used to be a die-hard seed saver, I didn't collect any at all this year. My kids saved more seeds than I did, and unfortunately, they saved the pole beans that none of us liked to eat. LOL I'd always grown bush beans before, and decided to venture into pole beans, since my sons seemed intrigued with them. The firmer texture just wasn't a hit with my guys. The last batch never got picked, and dried on the vine. Now they've got half a coffee can full of seeds for beans that no one liked.
Ah, well. Lessons learned.
