In a world where nothing comes free...

This assumes that gardening is free. Which it is not. Still better to grow your own though.

Yes, garden, then you can spend $5 on a pepper once you've factored in cost of all the supplies

Green peppers are unripe and so the seeds generally don't grow into anything

Me, who has no space to plant anything:

"Thanks bud"

Cool, so all I gotta do is own a house?

That pepper at the grocers is an F1 hybrid. It's offspring won't be very prolific and may actually have a different shape and flavor.

Some plants can become toxic enough to kill you if it cross pollinates with similar other plants. I think watermelon and zucchini do this. Be careful, do your research, and always share some of your crop with neighbors you don't like to see what happens first.

How is this a meme?

We garden and mostly what we get are 78943749832 zucchinis and 1 spinach leaf. I think maybe I'm not cut out for it.

Do you have rights to use and distribute product based on those patented seeds, though?

Intellectual property is a scam!

Just make sure your seeds aren't copyrighted or greedy corporations like Monstanto will sue you.

I reckon most peppers in the store don't have viable seeds.

As long as you can afford a garden

Substinence farming fucking sucks, you're going to be on the field all day long in the summer in order to have enough food to get you through the winter. Hobbyist gardening gives you best of both worlds - you have a nice patch of land to play in, and at the end you get a handful of produce to show off to friends and family.

Every time I've tried gardening all I've accomplished is feeding the local squirrels.

Since I see a lot about second generation peppers not being as good as first, does that go for tomatoes too? There are those really tasty grocery store cherry tomatoes that come in different varieties in one box. They cost like 4x the others but I get them when they're discounted before they throw them away. Can I save the seeds and grow them in my containers?

We grew some cherries in containers this year before they got invaded by stinkbugs. But those that survived were the tastiest tomatoes I've had in my life.