Pepper cultivars vary in both their immature and mature fruit color, but all peppers undergo a color change when their seeds ripen. The seeds of large-fruited peppers are easily extracted simply by ...

Q: Does sowing hot and sweet pepper seeds in the same patch affect the heat or sweetness of the peppers? A: Yes... in ensuing generations if you're saving the seed. These two types of peppers can ...

Question: I’m interested in growing some unusual peppers this season that I can’t get as transplants at the nursery. I’ll need to start my own seeds. I know peppers can take longer to grow from seed ...

If you love to eat peppers in salads, stir fries and more, give growing your own a go. Also known as bell peppers or capiscums, peppers can be grown from seed in spring, ready to crop the same summer.

I dried some seeds of sweet mini peppers that I bought at Costco. They came from Mexico. Will they grow in my garden here? A: If you can get the seeds to germinate, the plants will grow just fine here ...

QUESTION: 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 Carver ANSWER: I get variations ...

The National Garden Bureau has declared 2015 to be the Year of the Sweet Pepper! Sweet bell peppers are cultivars of Capsicum annuum. Sweet peppers are called sweet because they lack the gene that ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- Early August is a busy time at Mobile Botanical Gardens, but I can't let the week pass without noting what I had for supper, last night, the night before and pretty much all of last ...

Cutting bell peppers can be messy with the seeds spilling all over the place. Chef Gordon Ramsay has a method that makes the task easier and neater.