The Rusted Garden Blog — Growing Peppers

Starting garden plants indoors is rewarding on so many levels. It gives you something to do during the cold months and opens the door to  transplants of 1000s of varieties of plants you would never find at nurseries or your big box stores.  Not only that, it will save you a lot of money.  Even with the initial start up costs of buying lights, shelves and starting supplies, you save money. You can get a good 10 years out of lights now-a-days. The money you save starting you own plants will pay for itself in the first year. Instead of...

By Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) This video will show you how to oven dry hot peppers. I dry Red Cayenne, Facing Heaven and Jalapeno peppers. The general setting for the oven is 180 degrees F or less. It will take 4 - 8 hours to dry your peppers depending on several factors. I found this method to be the best way to quickly process and dry your peppers. If you want more flavor and less oil evaporation... drop the temperature down. Visit my YouTube Channel with over 800 gardening videos: The Rusted Garden Cayenne and Facing Heaven peppers are...

  By Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden)  There are several reasons you may want to prune peppers. One reason is to help the pepper plants develop stronger sturdier stems. Another reason is to force or create a bushier plant with more side shoots which leads to more flowers and potentially more peppers. Visit my YouTube Channel with over 800 gardening videos: The Rusted Garden     I want to be clear, you do not have to do this. If you haven't pruned peppers before, take the middle ground. Prune a couple plants and see how they respond. One of the...

by Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) Every year I create new garden videos and often make video series that focus on a specific topic. Last year, I shot a 9 part video series on growing tomatoes and peppers from start to finish and all the steps in between. They are short focused videos that start with well...starting seeds. I cover all the starting basic, transitioning your plants to the outdoors, planting, feeding, tending, pruning, staking and managing pest and diseases. I also add in tomato and pepper tips here and there, like pinching off the tops of your young peppers...