How to Grow the Healthiest Pepper Plants in Containers: From Seed to Harvest

What if you could harvest hundreds or even thousands of peppers throughout the season by growing just a handful of plants in just a few containers? Well with the right pepper strategy, you can! Sweet pepper or hot pepper, it doesn’t matter because they both grow marvelously in pots. Let’s look at how to do just that, from seed to harvest. Select An Incredible Pepper Variety Start with a packet of seeds from a pepper variety you’re spectacularly excited to grow....

May 10, 2023 · 13 min · Nextdoor Homestead

Should You Prune Your Pepper Plants? The Answer May Surprise You!

To get right to the point, the truth is you probably don’t need to prune your pepper plants… at least not in the way commonly suggested. But there’s a little more to the story, so let’s take a closer look to understand why not pruning is the way to go most of the time and a few exceptions to that rule. Pepper Plant Structure As you can see in the image above, pepper plants have a really clear main stem as well as lots of peripheral stems growing out of the leaf nodes....

February 24, 2023 · 5 min · Nextdoor Homestead