Whether sugary sweet or hot as blue blazes, pepper plants bring zest to your garden and your meals. The good news is that it takes little effort to produce basketloads of these colorful treats. The ...

Overwinter your pepper plants for an early harvest next season. Depending on your region, you can grow them as houseplants or store dormant plants in a cool garage.

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.

This is a 133 days time-lapse of growing a jalapeno pepper/chili plant from a seed to blooming flowers and bearing fruits. We ...

The weather took a wintry turn, but the calendar says it’s spring and that means gardening time has returned. You may have questions. For answers, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer ...

Growing peppers in your garden is rather easy, says Contra Costa Master Gardener Bonnie Dwyer, but you have to remember that the peppers can be both temperamental and finicky. The dividends, however, ...

Corn is a great bet for a quick and rewarding summer harvest. This fast-growing crop performs well in USDA hardiness zones ...

Bell Pepper in Grow a Garden was added as part of the summer update in June 2025. Bell Pepper is a multiple harvest plant in Grow a Garden, which is always a good thing for a seed to be, but this ...