If pollen from a hot pepper fertilizes the flower of a sweet pepper, all the hot pepper genes from the father plant go into the embryo in the seed. The genes from the male parent do not play a part in ...

The pepper companion plants featured here play various roles in the garden community, enhancing pepper yields through pest ...

Has there been a spell of hot weather? Did you just transplant peppers outside? When was the last time you fertilized and ...

Let the plants’ growth and fertilizer directions be your guide. Peppers grow and produce best when day temperatures are 70 to ...

Instead of waiting all summer for one or two peppers to ripen, each snacking pepper plant can produce as many as fifty ...

eaten as food, or gifted to Villagers to further relationships. Each crop has its season. The Hot Pepper crop, in particular, can be grown in the Summer.

Joshua Tewksbury and colleagues study whether the hot stuff in chili fruit ... membranes (it puts the sting in pepper spray). But its function in wild chili plants has been mysterious.

Some of the best companion plants for peppers will repel common ... Cold-weather varieties will bolt once it's hot. Peppers like well-draining soil. If your garden soil is heavy and prone to ...

Here are a few trap crops to plant with peppers: Hot cherry peppers are planted as a trap crop around the perimeter of bell pepper plants to draw pepper maggots away from the main crop.