One of the most commonly asked questions about Capsicum cultivation is, Can I save seed? The answer is yes, but of course there are qualifications to that statement.
Pepper Growing Season 101
Having transplanted your chile pepper plants into an actual garden, it’s time to think about the warmer months ahead.
What to Grow with Chile Peppers
What grows well with chile peppers in a garden? Jose’s stories of Milpas conjured forth that question into my mind last week.
A Pepper Garden Design We Dig
After years of growing peppers in small plots in the Southwest, we have developed a system that works well because it allows us to grow peppers with most of the other vegetables and herbs in the garden.
An Excellent Way to Grow Pepper Seedlings
We use the following technique to grow seedlings for transplanting with excellent results. Although we use it in semi-arid New Mexico, it should work equally well in other parts of the country.
Fatalii Pepper 101
Fatalii peppers and their brethren fall into the capsicum chinense family. Those brethren would be the habanero, Scotch Bonnet, and Red Savina.
How to Irrigate A Pepper Garden
Watering a pepper garden may sound as easy as busting out a watering can or a garden hose but if your garden is larger than a couple of 4×4-ft raised boxes from Home Depot, well, you might want something more advanced, like the garden irrigation setups we’re going to discuss.