How To Grow Peppers

Growing peppers is fairly easy.

Make sure they get as much light as possible. Select an area in your garden or green house that receives full sun. Normal preparation of your soil, add plenty of compost, manure, and a general fertilizer.

Peppers like the weather hot. Transplant young seedlings outdoors after the last chance of frost. If the weather is still cool, delay transplanting a few days, and keep them in a coldframe, indoors or next to the house.

Pepper plants prefer moist soil. Avoid wet soil. Water regularly in the hot, dry summer months.
Add mulch around the peppers to keep down weeds, and to retain moisture. As the peppers develop, switch over to a fertilizer higher in Phosphorous and Potassium. Don’t use too much nitrogen. You will have a great looking bushy, green plant, but few fruit.

Tip: Peppers are self pollinators. Don’t plant hot and sweet peppers too close together because they can cross pollinate. It won’t affect the fruit of this year’s crop, but will show up if you save the seeds.

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