Whether sugary sweet or hot as blue blazes, pepper plants bring zest to your garden and your meals. The good news is that it takes little effort to produce basketloads of these colorful treats. The ...

This is a 133 days time-lapse of growing a jalapeno pepper/chili plant from a seed to blooming flowers and bearing fruits. We ...

Question: I’m interested in growing some unusual peppers this season that I can’t get as transplants at the nursery. I’ll need to start my own seeds. I know peppers can take longer to grow from seed ...

Growing peppers in your garden is rather easy, says Contra Costa Master Gardener Bonnie Dwyer, but you have to remember that the peppers can be both temperamental and finicky. The dividends, however, ...

Ready to start harvesting your very own red, green, and yellow beauties? Keep scrolling to learn the when and where of planting these hydrating, vitamin C-rich fruits, and the steps you need to set ...

There are thousands of varieties of peppers to choose from to grow in your garden, from mild to burn-your-face-off hot. Before buying pepper seeds or starts, decide what type of peppers you want and ...

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 ...

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.

Growing peppers will add color to your garden and present some of your garden’s biggest flavors. There are many varieties of peppers from sweet and mellow to fiery hot. The “heat” in a pepper is from ...

The first half of the weekend was gorgeous. I hope you got to get outside to at least ponder what you’re going to grow and where you’re going to grow it. This week, we really need to get our seeds ...