The first “superhot” peppers I planted in my garden were some Ghost Pepper seedlings I impulsively bought from a little nursery down the road. Ghost Peppers were once considered the world’s hottest pepper by many, until some new, hotter varieties emerged in fairly recent years. I had no clue what I’d actually do with Ghost…
Summer is a challenging season for growing, since it’s prime time for just about every living organism that wants to trash your garden. Thankfully, pepper plants are more resilient than other crops against the different things that can go wrong during heat wave and bug invasion season. There are, however, a handful of problems that…
Peppers were one of the several things I planted in my very first garden, when I had no idea what I was doing. We tilled up a little plot in our red clay soil, mixed in a couple bags of $4 mushroom compost (not nearly enough), and called it good. I never fertilized. In retrospect,…
