Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red and green bell peppers growing in a garden. - Helen Camacaro/Getty Images Growing Capsicum annuum, like bell, green, or sweet ...

This guide explains how to grow bell peppers in containers on a balcony. It covers pot size, soil, sunlight, and watering.

Beginner vegetable gardeners love this low-cost hack.

Ideally, peppers should be grown in well-drained soils that contain a high level of organic matter, but they can also thrive in moderately fertile soil. Soils low in organic matter can be amended by ...

Late summer and early fall are the hottest months of the year in Southern California. The extreme heat (often over 100 degrees) is tough to garden in, but good for both bell and hot peppers. Every ...

A question for Dan Gill: I planted yellow, red and green bell peppers. The green are making out well. The red and yellow flower and make very small peppers, but the stems turn yellow, and they fall ...

Experienced gardeners are dismayed at people on social media extolling bell peppers as the only sweet peppers. Those people apparently don’t know about the many tapered and wedge-shaped sweet peppers ...

I’ve got some exciting garden news to share, and I’ll try not to be too boastful. In the past week, I harvested more peppers than I ever have for a whole summer! I picked six Anaheim, five chilaca ...

Very hot: Chiltepin (Birds-eye), Thai, Habanero, Scotch Bonnet. Sweet bell peppers are commonly planted in the home garden. They are blocky in shape, with three or four lobes on the bottom of the ...