Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weiquan Lin / Getty Images Snipping and pruning pepper plants seems like a small action, but it's more important to their health ...

Bell peppers are members of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, along with tomatoes and potatoes, and are native to Central and South America. Of all the pepper varieties, bell peppers are among the ...

Hot peppers add spicy flavor to dishes, taking a recipe from bland to “boy that’s hot!” The amount of capsaicin in a pepper determines the heat level, which is measured by the Scoville scale, a handy ...

When is the best time to cut back roses? Is there is difference between pruning cultivated roses and roses native to Missouri? Roses that bloom only once should be pruned after blooming, since they ...

When pepper plants stall, drop blossoms, or sit stubbornly green, the problem rarely starts with the fruit. It usually begins in the soil, the weather, or the way the plants are managed long before ...

Dear Master Gardener: I am interested in growing hot peppers so this year I purchased vegetable grow bags with handles, planted various types of hot peppers and placed the grow bags on my parent’s ...

Different types of leafy vegetables growing in a garden - Aimintang/Getty Images Not many people associate pruning with annual vegetables. After all, they don't require any shaping and being annuals, ...