Companion planting is a term with multiple meanings. Companion plants for ornamentals such as hydrangeas are selected for aesthetic purposes. In fruit and vegetable gardens, we select companion plants ...

Growing certain plants with your peppers has benefits, from pest and disease control to soil improvement. Peppers are a wonderful addition to any vegetable garden, and a key ingredient in a wide range ...

There's no need to start from scratch each year. Pepper plants are grown as annuals since they don’t survive the cold in many areas. They’re actually perennials, but they can’t handle freezing ...

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.

Baby, it's cold outside. So naturally, we're thinking about ways to stay warm - dressing in layers, tossing fleece throws over our laps as we watch TV, cooking up pots of hot soup, baking loaves of ...

Biologists working in the Andes mountains of Ecuador have described a new plant species, a wild relative of black pepper, that is the sole home of an estimated 40-50 insect species, most of which are ...