Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red and green bell peppers growing in a garden. - Helen Camacaro/Getty Images Growing Capsicum annuum, like bell, green, or sweet ...

Late summer and early fall are the hottest months of the year in Southern California. The extreme heat (often over 100 degrees) is tough to garden in, but good for both bell and hot peppers. Every ...

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 ...

A question for Dan Gill: I planted yellow, red and green bell peppers. The green are making out well. The red and yellow flower and make very small peppers, but the stems turn yellow, and they fall ...

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 ...

Different types of peppers need different spacing to thrive. Figuring out how far apart to plant peppers is a balancing act. If you plant peppers too far apart, you waste valuable garden space, but if ...

Very hot: Chiltepin (Birds-eye), Thai, Habanero, Scotch Bonnet. Sweet bell peppers are commonly planted in the home garden. They are blocky in shape, with three or four lobes on the bottom of the ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! This first week of June finds us pretty dry and in need of rain. Luckily, temperatures have been mild but we definitely could use some precipitation.