If you're growing peppers in the garden, adding kitchen scraps can be a great way to add needed nutrients to the soil, and ...

Hopefully you have most of your garden planted, or will have it planted in this next week. Now it's time to feed those plants the right way, without going broke.

Pruning pepper plants improves branching, root health, and fruit ripening. Early-season pruning focuses on developing strong ...

Pepper plants do not always respond well to heavy pruning, especially early in the season when strong roots and healthy stems ...

Bell peppers are one of the most popular vegetables to grow. Unlike their small, spicy relatives, bell peppers lack the high amount of capsaicin that makes chilli peppers eye-wateringly hot. Whether ...

Good care early in the growing season will produce the leafy growth that fuels good fruit growth and a nice harvest later in the season. There are hundreds of pepper varieties to choose from, and most ...

In the Pacific Northwest, pepper planting success starts with selecting varieties that have been bred for a short season and ...

In temperate zone locations like ours where it freezes in winter, pepper plants are grown outdoors as an annual crop. That means we grow them for one season and harvest the fruit as well as the seeds.

Question: I have seen many pepper plants for sale in nurseries and big box stores since March. Is it too late to add a few pepper plants to my garden? Or should I consider growing peppers at all?

Gardening expert Ciscoe Morris loves hot peppers and wants to dispel a popular myth about growing them in the Pacific Northwest. “A lot of people say you can't grow hot peppers because we don't give ...