The Secret To Growing Abundant Peppers in Your Kitchen Garden
- Cultivate Simple Delights
- 16 hours ago
- 3 min read
Growing peppers in your kitchen garden is a staple when it comes to home gardening and I'm going to share two easy tips that will allow you to grow a ton of peppers easily even if you are brand new to gardening.
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What Kind Of Peppers Should I Grow In My Garden
To decide on what kind of peppers you should grow in your garden start by selecting types that suit your taste and growing conditions.
There is no point in growing peppers that you don't enjoy eating.
Bell peppers and jalapenos are common kitchen ingredients that can be used in a variety of dishes making them a top choice for home cooks.
If you have a small growing space consider selecting dwarf pepper varieties, but also know that most peppers do well in container gardens making them fun to grow even if you only have a small space to work with.
Some popular options include:
Bell peppers for mild flavor and crunch
Jalapeños for moderate heat
Habaneros for intense spice
Cayenne for drying and powdering
What Seeds Should I Start Early Indoors?
Some seeds are just not worth starting indoors, but peppers are totally worth it every time.
With this one simple tip you have a greater chance of success.
Starting peppers early expands your growing season by several weeks giving you larger harvest yields throughout the season.
Sow pepper seeds indoors 8 to 10 weeks before the last expected frost.
Keep seeds warm (around 75°F) and moist until they sprout.
Provide plenty of light using a sunny window or grow lights.
How To Grow Peppers In My Kitchen Garden
Once your last frost has past, you can transplant your seedlings into the garden selecting a sunny location and spacing them about 18 inches apart.
This gives your plants plenty of air circulation and room to grow, which can reduce issues with diseases and pests.
By starting your plants early you are going to be able to greatly improve your harvest yields because peppers take time to grow, but once they start setting in fruit you can harvest an abundance.
The more you pick, the more will grow, which is pretty awesome when you're interested in growing your own food at home.
That is why I suggest every home gardener has a least two pepper plants in their garden that will give you a good start on harvesting fresh peppers at home.
But here's the best part and the secret to getting even more peppers fresh from your backyard!
At the end of the season you're going to over winterize your peppers.
What's that you may ask?
And I'm happy you did because it's a total game changer for growing fresh peppers at home.
Most pepper plants actually have a two year life cycle, so at the end of the season you can bring them indoors.
That means you can have mature plants ready to go by Spring, instead of seedlings and that is a total game changer if you are trying to grow a ton of peppers at home.
To over winter your pepper plants just simply bring them indoors, prune them, and water sparingly to keep the root ball hydrated.
These plants can be kept in a dry cool dark location until Spring.
Then transplanted them back into the garden for round two.
Isn't that pretty cool?
If you want to grow an abundance of pepper plants in your kitchen garden this year it's time to start now by sowing a few seedlings and then remembering at the end of the season to grab a couple of plants to overwinter, so you can stay ahead of the game growing more food at home the easy way.
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