Peppers and chillies add color and flavor, ranging from sweet to fiery hot. Learn about the simple steps to encourage growth and maximize yield in your garden.
If you’re a vegetable gardener, I’m sure you’ve tried growing peppers in your garden at least once. Believe it or not, I actually had to plant peppers and throw away destroyed crops several times before I got the hang of it. The main issue: pest infestations every single time. In today’s article, I’m going to…
Leaf yellowing and discoloration is fairly common in mature pepper plants. While it can occur in younger plants, most cases are reported after a few harvests or during the growth phase of the peppers. If you’re dealing with yellowing leaves in your pepper plant, this article will walk you through some possible causes as well…
In this article, we will take a deep look into the several long-term storage methods for garden-fresh peppers. I will teach you how to sustain and preserve the vibrant flavor, crisp texture and nutritional value of your peppers long after the harvest season. You can have a bountiful harvest of peppers and lose them all…
We’ve all been there, we go out of town for a couple of days thinking that our garden will be fine only to return and find that everything has shriveled up. So what happened? Well, our plants probably went too long without getting water. Mature peppers can last up to a week without water but…
When pepper plants start to drop their flowers before setting fruit, it can be a bit alarming. And it can be difficult to figure out why your peppers are dropping their flowers in the first place. But, I’m here to tell you why. The most common reasons that peppers drop their flowers are because of…
Growing bell peppers can be a real test of patience for even the seasoned gardener. Sometimes it feels like we wait all season for the fruits to appear. Understandably, it’s quite discouraging when our plants only produce small bell peppers. So, how can we fix this? The best way to get big bell peppers is…