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Peppers are one of our most popular garden crops. And not only that but also one of our most productive and most bountiful. The unripe, tasteless peppers at the grocery store, pale in comparison to the beauties that we can grow right at home. And even better than that, peppers are easy to grow, they transplant well, and are fairly resistant to pests and disease. And that's what makes them ideal candidates to grow in pots or containers. Let me show you how I grow mine in pots right from seed, and it starts right now. How To Grow Peppers In Pots or Container Seeding and Germination :  To grow the best container peppers this summer, we must first ensure that we have top-notch starter plans. We begin with a quality organic SR potting mixture. For peppers, I tend to use the 72 cell trays ( you can buy it from amazon  ), even for the smaller varieties like habaneros and cons. Feel that trade of the top and compress each cell by about one third. fill those depressions back in and le...

Vegetable farmers have debated for years about whether they should prune tomato plants. Many gardeners are so careful about their pruning tomatoes, while others could care less. So who is right? Generally pruning your tomato plants promotes the health of the plants and the quality of the fruit they produce. I have had prosperous tomato crops when I pruned it, and also when I didn’t prune my tomato plants. Here are some  advantages  and  disadvantages  of pruning the tomato plants: Some Tomato Plants Pruning Advantages: Cut off the “suckers” from a tomato plant will support the plant to focus its strength on the growing fruit instead of the leaves, producing better, healthier fruit. This is a method clearly called “Pinching off”. It is arranged by pinching off the short branches that form in the like alphabetic “Y” among the central stalk and a branch. Pruning each branching off from the base of the tomato plant that is reaching the ground serves to ward...