I’ve been told that if you plant hot peppers near your sweet peppers, it will make the sweet peppers hot. How far apart do I need to plant them to prevent this from happening? — Tom Caulfield The ...

Peppers (Capsicum annuum) make a popular addition to home gardens due to being easy to grow and offering a wide variety of sweet and spicy peppers for your garden. Sweet peppers add crunch and mild ...

Red and green bell peppers growing in a garden. - Helen Camacaro/Getty Images Growing Capsicum annuum, like bell, green, or sweet peppers, can be incredibly satisfying, but it's not always the easiest ...

Experienced gardeners are dismayed at people on social media extolling bell peppers as the only sweet peppers. Those people apparently don’t know about the many tapered and wedge-shaped sweet peppers ...

Ideally, peppers should be grown in well-drained soils that contain a high level of organic matter, but they can also thrive in moderately fertile soil. Soils low in organic matter can be amended by ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. Is it true that if you plant hot peppers on the same row as sweet ...

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.

In the gardening world, peppers are hot this year. At the herb festivals and farmers markets, farmers report that pepper plants are selling nearly as well as tomatoes and herbs. Backyard gardeners who ...

Matthew Watters planted just peppers in his garden this year. He planned to grow a full crop of jalapenos that would be canned to spice up meals throughout the winter. After burying the seeds in dirt, ...

Come summer, gardeners will feel the heat, and not just in degrees, but also in Scoville units. Even though it’s February, it’s a good time to either begin pepper seeds or start planning which ...

Enjoy the spicy heat hot peppers add to your meals without concern for the many myths surrounding these garden vegetables. Here are a few you may have heard but are not true. Enjoy the spicy heat hot ...