Peppers are an international favorite for home gardeners. They’re easy to grow and unparalleled in their range of types, flavors, shapes, sizes and nutritional value. Here’s a collection of our popular articles to help you succeed with planting and growing peppers in containers or in a vegetable garden.
Tips for Selecting and Growing Pepper Plants
care and planting solutions
Popular Types of Peppers
get to know the different kinds of peppers
 Bell Peppers |
 Hot Peppers |
 Banana Peppers |
 Chili Peppers |
 Sweet Peppers |
 Ornamental Peppers * |
*Be cautious about eating ornamental peppers from plants that are sold for decorative use. Nursery-grown plants, intended only for decoration, may have been treated with chemicals for ornamental – not edible – plants.
Our Favorite Pepper Recipes
tasty ways to enjoy your peppers
 Chile Pepper Cornbread |
 How to Make Your Own Hot Pepper Flakes |
 Slow Cooker Stuffed Bell Peppers |
 Triple Pepper Cheese Dip |
Expand your garden harvest with another easy-to-grow vegetable – tomatoes! Get started with our article collection about growing, preserving and preparing tomatoes.
More of a question about the peppers that are hybred and thoes which are not marked. The poblano doesnt say . How do i tell if its true to seed.
Hi Shannon,
If your poblano pepper isn’t identified with a specific hybrid name, such as ‘Trident’, ‘Ancho San Martin’, or ‘Ancho 101’ – just to name a few – then the only way to know what quality of peppers it will produce is to grow the plant and see. These days most poblano pepper plants sold commercially are hybrids. Hybrid peppers offer benefits such as improved disease resistance, better flavor, and higher fruit production. If your plant is just tagged “poblano”, it’s less likely that it’s a hybrid because retailers would normally want to promote a premium variety of a plant, but of course there is no way to know for sure other than to ask the seller.