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  • in Fruit Vegetables, Prepare

    Five Ways to Cook and Serve Chili Peppers

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    Chilies or hot peppers can be eaten raw or they can be roasted, grilled, pan-seared, toasted, or stuffed. Chilies can also be added to other cooked dishes; they contain natural chemicals that enhance the flavor of other foods during cooking. Often small, hot chilies—such as the jalapeño, Serrano, poblano, Anaheim, and banana–are used fresh. But […] More

  • in Harvest and Storage

    How to Harvest and Store Peppers

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    Peppers can be harvested as soon as they are large enough to eat. Most mild and hot peppers take at least 70 days from transplanting to reach edible size and another 3 to 4 weeks to reach maturity. Some hot peppers take longer. Related articles: If you know the variety of pepper you are growing […] More

  • in Fruit Vegetables, How to Grow, Plant

    How to Plant and Grow Hot Peppers

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    Hot peppers are distinguished from sweet peppers simply by their pungency or hotness of flavor. There are thousands of hot pepper varieties in the world. (This is the case because peppers easily cross-pollinate to produce new kinds.) The hotness of a pepper is determined by a number of blister-like sacs of capsaicinoids on the interior […] More

  • in Gardening Tips, How to Grow, Prepare

    How to Grow Salsa

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    Salsa is a delicious and versatile condiment, dip that can be enjoyed with a wide variety of foods. Although it’s most commonly paired with chips, salsa can also be used as a topping for tacos, eggs, grilled meats, or salads. If you’re a fan of this tasty dip, why not try growing your salsa ingredients? […] More

  • in How to Grow

    Six Tips to Grow Peppers for Flavor

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    Temperature, watering, feeding, and, in the end, patience are the keys to growing flavorful peppers. If you lack one of these, your peppers will be less tasty than they could be. From the beginning of the season through harvest, you can grow more flavorful peppers if you give peppers what they need. Here are six […] More

  • in Preserve

    Beginner’s Guide to Canning Peppers

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    Can sweet bell peppers and chile peppers—which can be sweet or hot–preserve your summer harvest? Can peppers after deciding if you want to preserve sweet or heat or a combination of the two? Sweet green, yellow, orange, or red bell peppers are large and thick-fleshed. They have a sweet, crisp flavor. Chile peppers—such as Anaheim, […] More

  • in Fruit Vegetables, How to Grow, Plant

    10 Steps to Grow a Bumper Pepper Crop

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    To get a bumper crop from your pepper plants, you must dedicate yourself to helping the plants thrive. Pepper plants are more temperamental than tomatoes—they demand warm temperatures, even soil moisture, feeding, and support—literally. Here are 10 steps that will all but guarantee sweet and hot pepper growing success. (But don’t turn your back on […] More

  • in Diseases, Fruit Vegetables, Pests, Problems

    Mid-Season Pepper Problem Cures

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    Peppers are tropical plants and can be temperamental–especially the further they grow away from the tropics. They demand warm temperatures—not too cool and not too hot, organically rich soil, and even soil moisture—not too little and not too much. Give peppers these optimal conditions and they will produce until the first frost in autumn. Good […] More