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Ok, so I'm not going to tell you every detail about how this works yet, because I'm unsure if it's something I want to try to market. However, I may have figured out a way to stop the #1 problem with pepper growing.   I believe that bacterial spotting as well as "sun scorch" damage are caused by...

Ok, so I bought this 12 foot by 8 foot 50% vinyl shade with the intention to hang it up so that half the day my peppers aren't broiling in the AZ sun, and now I have read the suggestion that 30% shade increases yields. Can I just, I dunno, cut some holes in various places and assume that will work?

So, today I was working on my garden, and while attempting to transplant a "Mexibelle" from a 14" pot into a 17" pot, I lost control of my hands and snapped the plant, right at the stem base. I automatically figured it was toast, so I broke it a few more times and threw it into my compost bin. ...

Very pleased with the progress of my Shishito plant. I've got peppers this size all over, do you think I could go ahead and fry these up? Or should I wait to see a bit of red before I pluck them? I know these are good green, so I don't want to wait too long.  

If I had my way 100% of the time, I would always start every plant from seed, but being human and impatient, I have a weakness for buying partially developed green babies from the Home Depot, primarily Bonnie brand. I am starting to see now that a large number of these plants end up having...

Happy birthday to my latest green kids, born on Cindo De Mayo! I have a dozen Numex "Heritage Big Jim", 3 "Heritage 6-4", both are New Mexico chile cultivars that claim to have 5x the flavor of other green chiles. Also have a couple of these heatless Habaneros called "Trick or Treat" that...