Hot peppers add spicy flavor to dishes, taking a recipe from bland to “boy that’s hot!” The amount of capsaicin in a pepper determines the heat level, which is measured by the Scoville scale, a handy ...

Missing your garden already? Worry not - you can easily grow hot peppers indoors. All you need is to choose the right variety ...

Companion planting—the practice of growing compatible plants near each other—can benefit the pepper plants in your garden in several ways. Some drive off destructive pests, attract beneficial insects ...

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 ...

Hot peppers are members of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, which means they are a not-so-distant relative of tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants (and, of course, other types of peppers). That might ...

I’ve been told that if you plant hot peppers near your sweet peppers, it will make the sweet peppers hot. How far apart do I need to plant them to prevent this from happening? — Tom Caulfield The ...

Earlier harvests. Peppers grown from seeds or transplants usually take at least a few months to fruit after spring planting.

Is it true that if you plant hot peppers on the same row as sweet peppers, the sweet pepper plants will cross with the hot peppers and become hot? — William I get variations on this question all the ...