These tips will ensure your pantry is filled with fresh peppercorns. A popular spice used in cooking, peppercorns come from a climbing vine that thrives in warm, humid climates and can reach a height ...

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.

Watch Exactly What to Do When Your Pepper Plant Starts to Set Fruit originally appeared on Dengarden. When it comes to gardening, people have a lot of different ideas. Some are intuitive, others are ...

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 ...

Years ago on a trip to Frankie’s Nursery on Oahu, I was charmed by their black pepper plants. I recently acquired one and am reviewing information on best practices to be able to harvest my own ...

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 ...

There are two kinds of gardeners. First we have the laissez-faire growers who prize plants that thrive when ignored. These are succulent people, well-adjusted and simple. Then there are the gardeners ...

Wood ash can be used to fertilize various vegetables and flowers, including pepper plants. It's full of nutrients that ...

Q: I am growing peppers from seed and the plants are starting to flower when they are very small. Can I remove the flowers and let them get larger and then let them flower? A: Yes, removing the ...