Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spicy red and green pepper plants. Companion planting—the practice of growing compatible plants near each other—can benefit the ...

Companion planting is a term with multiple meanings. Companion plants for ornamentals such as hydrangeas are selected for aesthetic purposes. In fruit and vegetable gardens, we select companion plants ...

Just like for other garden crops, companion planting benefits peppers, both bell peppers and hot peppers. With the right neighbors, plants grow healthier, thanks to fewer disease and pest issues.

Peppers (Capsicum annuum) are easily one of the most popular veggies to grow at home — and while they can do well both indoors and outdoors (USDA Zones: 4-11), growing them indoors is often better.

Do you have a favorite pepper plant that you don’t want to lose to the cold, or do you just want to harvest peppers a little earlier next year? It might have never occurred to you that peppers are ...

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.

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 ...

Peppers are one of the most diverse summer vegetable crops grown in local gardens. If I were to ask 10 people what pepper they like the most in their garden, I would probably get 10 different answers.