While it’s getting easier to find a variety of fresh and dried peppers at the grocery store, it’s much more fun and economical to grow your own. Start seeds indoors at least eight to 10 weeks before ...

Chili pepper plants benefit from being fertilized throughout the growing season. Providing the right nutrients can reward you with a fantastic yield of fruits, though some growers, especially ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station planted chili peppers in orbit. The project, NASA’s Plant Habitat-04, aims to gauge the possibilities of growing plants outside of the Earth’s ...

Plant-Based Chili contains pinto beans, plant-based crumbles, mixed bell peppers and onions simmered in a blend of tomatoes and spices.

Chili peppers grow on bushy plants about 1- to 3-feet high with glossy dark green leaves. The young plants are generally put out in the spring in a bright sunny location after danger of frost is past.

Vegetable plants can be either heirloom or hybrid. Plant hybridizing is the process of inventing new plants by combining the best qualities of other plants.

5. We sometimes forget that the plants on which bell and chili peppers grow are perennial. I have grown chili pepper plants that lasted three years.

Previously, the chili pepper’s origin was placed 15 million years ago in South America. But, new fossils may alter that story.

Fossilized plants can provide much information about plant diversification and the planet’s geography and evolution. Researchers have discovered an ancient chili pepper from Colorado that may ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Chile peppers could cost you more this season. Mauro Farm in Pueblo is charging $5 more per bushel than last year. Chile pepper plants didn't produce as many this season ...