I've always frozen my extra peppers from the garden. I stoppped planting a vegetable garden a few years ago and sometimes I do miss it but there are a few farmers markets around I go to once or twice a week, but it is no where near as handy as going outside to just pick what I need. The thing I miss the most is cucumbers, I love just eating those as snacks and the ones in the stores around here are not good. I never had any extra cucumbers because we all like them here, we always had extra tomatoes, squash, zucchini and peppers. I just grew a few tomato and pepper plants in pots this year and the tomatoes seem to be doing good, but the peppers are kind of at a standstill.