From cool bell peppers to spicy jalapeños, peppers are a delight to grow and have a wide range of culinary uses. Peppers require a lot of sunshine and warm temperatures in order to thrive, but that ...

With a heavy heart, you've put your garden to bed for the season. The last of your produce is frozen and canned for later, but you're already missing the vibrant green leaves. But while spring may be ...

Maximize your harvest with these tips. Cayenne pepper is a heat- and drought-tolerant plant in the nightshade family. There are many varieties of this plant, including edible and ornamental types, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Row of Red Bell Pepper Plants Bell peppers are members of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, along with tomatoes and potatoes, ...

Ornamental peppers, a stunning plant with both decorative and edible qualities, showcase vibrant fruits and foliage in a variety of colors and shapes. These peppers flourish quickly and require little ...

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.

Depending on your hardiness zone, here's what you can start growing in January to get a jumpstart on your spring garden. Becca Lewis is home maintenance writer who aims to foster confidence in and ...

You can’t beat homegrown edible plants for high-impact flavor and nutrition. The longer they go from soil to fork, the weaker their content — from flavor-enhancing sugars to immune-system-boosting ...

For many vegetable gardeners, this is perhaps the best season of the year—seed catalog season! Since the first week of January, colorful seed catalogs have begun to appear in my mailbox just as links ...

You don’t need a greenhouse, a fancy store-bought contraption, or even special “grow lights” to start plants from seed. It’s easier than you might think to start a big chunk of your gardens inside on ...