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.

Most people consider peppers (Capsicum annuum) as an easy plant to grow, as long as the soil and sunlight are ideal. This is helpful because, in colder climates, they're annuals that can't survive ...

I started seeds of three kinds of onions and six of peppers last weekend. The onions will be ready to plant out in early to mid-April and the peppers at the end of May. Peppers can take several weeks ...

Hot pepper plants are the most suitable for overwintering indoors due to their small size. In Zone 9 and above, overwinter peppers outdoors with protection if needed. Indoors, pepper plants can be ...

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

Dear Master Gardener: I am interested in growing hot peppers so this year I purchased vegetable grow bags with handles, planted various types of hot peppers and placed the grow bags on my parent’s ...