Ahh I see that you, too have a rock farm XD I'm currently working on clearing the gravel from the top layers of the ground. It's a very long and back breaking process and I'm still trying to figure out where the hell it all came from. All I know is that it was somewhere under the ground as it wasn't there when we moved in and then we got chickens and a few generations later they've dug up a whole lot of nonsense.
Good luck with the sweet pepper plants, hope they all survive and thrive and produce lots of peppers :D
RE: I'm now in the final stage of planting my sweet pepper plants; I've started with four, and the rest will follow in a few days