For best results, individual pepper plants should be kept in pots or grow bags that are at least 12 inches in diameter, although larger pots are even better. Ensure the growing containers have plenty ...

Bell peppers are members of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, along with tomatoes and potatoes, and are native to Central and South America. Of all the pepper varieties, bell peppers are among the ...

The weather took a wintry turn, but the calendar says it’s spring and that means gardening time has returned. You may have questions. For answers, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer ...

With a heavy heart, you've put your garden to bed for the season. The last of your produce is frozen and canned for later, but you're already missing the vibrant green leaves. But while spring may be ...

I kindly propose you consider the sweet end of the pepper family, in which flavor and body take precedence over burn. When most people think of growing peppers, they become devilish fiends for heat, ...

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.

Time lapse of growing sweet red bell pepper from seed to harvest over 118 days. The seed was extracted from grocery-bought pepper and planted inside a 10-inch pot with soil and regular watering.

If you've planted this piquant vegetable in the spring, you may have found that it needed longer to ripen than anticipated.

Ezequiel Lopez-Reyes will never forget the taste of fresh fruit and vegetables brought straight from his father’s farm field when he was a child in Mexico. In honor of that memory, he established a ...