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When the forecast predicts several days above 100°F, many vegetable gardeners worry their pepper plants won’t survive. The good news is that peppers are among the most heat-tolerant vegetables you can grow. The challenge isn’t keeping pepper plants alive—it’s keeping them productive. I’ve grown sweet and hot peppers for decades in California, Florida, Iowa, and…
Sunscald is one of the most frustrating problems in the summer vegetable garden. A healthy tomato or pepper can look perfect one day and develop pale, leathery, or burned patches the next. In severe cases, the affected tissue turns white, yellow, or papery and becomes unusable. Unlike many plant diseases, sunscald is not caused by…
Choose the Right Pot for Strong Growth, High Yields, and Fewer Problems Peppers and cucumbers thrive in containers—but only if you give them the right setup. The wrong container leads to stunted plants, poor fruiting, and constant watering headaches. After 30+ years of growing warm-season crops in California (from the Central Valley to raised beds…
Few things are more frustrating than a healthy-looking pepper plant that grows leaves like crazy—but never sets fruit. You’re watering, feeding, and caring for it, yet still getting flowers that drop or plants that stall completely. If this is happening in your garden, you’re not alone. Pepper production problems are extremely common in both in-ground…
Peppers are one of the most rewarding container crops you can grow—but only if they’re fed correctly. If your pepper plants look healthy but produce few flowers, drop blossoms, or stay small, the problem is often simple: 👉 They’re not getting the right fertilizer at the right time. In containers, peppers depend entirely on you…
Growing peppers in containers is one of the easiest ways to get a reliable harvest—even if you’re brand new to gardening. I’ve grown peppers in raised beds and containers for many years in Sonoma Valley, and I can tell you this: peppers actually perform extremely well in pots when you give them warmth, steady water,…
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