When pepper plant leaves turn yellow it's called chlorosis. The leaves aren't able to efficiently make chlorophyll - the substance that keeps them a uniform green color. The purpose of leaves is to ...

Earlier harvests. Peppers grown from seeds or transplants usually take at least a few months to fruit after spring planting.

Overwinter your pepper plants for an early harvest next season. Depending on your region, you can grow them as houseplants or store dormant plants in a cool garage.

I started tomato and pepper plants from seed indoors and planted them outdoors right after Memorial Day. All of the plants did relatively well, and the tomato plants grew quite large. Then all of a ...

Verticillium and Fusarium wilt are two common diseases effecting tomatoes and plants in the tomato family such as pepper, eggplant and potato. Both diseases overwinter as fungal spores in garden soil ...

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.

Q: My squash plants and other vegetables have suddenly developed brown edges around some of the larger leaves. Is this a disease? Is there anything I can do to prevent this from spreading to the whole ...

The weather doesn’t seem to want to give gardeners a break this year. After going from cool, wet soil temperatures in May, plants are now baking in hot, above-normal temperatures in dry, cracked soil.

Q: I have a small garden in my backyard where I plant tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers. For the past three years - even with new soil - I have experienced blight on all three. My immediate problem ...

Q. I am having problems with some of my tomato plants. I planted them in early spring and had large, healthy plants and a good crop of tomatoes. Then, the plants started wilting back, and now they ...