The same friendly environment that promotes seedling growth also provides perfect breeding conditions for common greenhouse pests such as aphids, white flies, mealy bugs, and spider mites.
Choosing Chile Pepper Seeds for Gardening
To produce seed that is true to type, individual varieties must be pollinated only by their own pollen.
Culinary Herbs for Mexican Cuisines
Mexico is considered a “Megadiverse” country, since it contains 70% of the animal and vegetable species known to man, and it is home to more than 5,000 different endemic plants.
Bell Pepper 101
The bell pepper is a pod type of the annuum species.
How to Cross-breed Peppers Yourself
Pepper breeders make controlled crosses between plants in order to combine genes of interest, and with a little practice you too can make your own crosses.
What is the African Birdseye Pepper?
The African birdseye chile is both wild and domesticated and is also known in English as African devil chile.
How to Make Chipotle Peppers
The most commonly smoked is the jalapeno, which is generally considered too fleshy to be dried. Smoked Jalapenos are called chipotles.