In this organic gardening video, Brian with Next Level Gardening covers 10 mistakes you might be making and how to avoid them or fix them to grow a ton of peppers. Whether you are growing peppers in pots on a balcony, growing peppers in raised beds, or you have a homestead, these tips will help you with planting peppers, pruning peppers, pepper pests and diseases, watering peppers and so much more!
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00:14 – When do you plant pepper plants?
01:21 – How much sun do pepper plants need?
02:53 – How far do you space pepper plants?
05:49 – How much water do pepper plants need?
06:27 – What is the best fertilizer for peppers?
08:30 – Should you prune or pinch back your pepper plants?
10:23 – Should you stake pepper plants?
10:49 – Harvesting peppers
11:33 – Pepper plant pests and disease
15:05 – Can you overwinter peppers?
28 Comments
Can’t wait for the saving seeds video!
This year I’m digging my peppers up and overwintering them. I live in Zone 6 in Montana. I’ll bring them in early and put them under my grow lights. Then put them in greenhouse. I grew them in greenhouse this year and they’ve done much better than out in open garden.
Wow, I didn't know about partner plants. I bought two habanero pots at the garden shop, and each pot had 2 plants growing. I stupidly separated them. They seem to be doing fine, but I haven't seen any fruit yet.
Thanks, i thought all vegetables needed full sun. Im hoping now, Ill be able to eat one
I would like a followup on saving pepper seeds
Does anyone know if the aspirin spray will help or harm other plants? I find that if I need to treat only some plants, some of the time, I either forget or can’t be bothered. If it’s something that I can treat the whole bed with, I’m more likely to keep up with it and it has the added benefit of not having to remember all the details of why I’m even doing it. Yes it sounds lazy, because it is. Even if it doesn’t have any positive effect on the rest of the bed, I will actually keep up with it. I’m in hot and humid central FL so maybe it would help with bacteria issues that Brian mentioned, even if it doesn’t help with increased production on non nightshade plants?
I started the late Spring season this year, with 1 about 8 inches tall from last year, cut it back like you taught and it's now 4 ft tall- getting tons of bells, and so tasty! Thank You Brian for sharing you knowledge and experience's with us. I really appreciate you. Have a wonderful vacation!
Thank you Brian 👍always helpful info
All my pep seem to be doing pretty good ECEPT my plablanos still trying to
Get them to produce a bigger quantity and a bigger size 🤔. If you have any thoughts, let me know.
This year I put large tomato cages around my pepper plants while they were still pretty young. It’s working great!
Also, hot tip. I have a rosemary bush right in the center of my pepper bed. It got huge so I had to trim it back a ton. Instead of putting the extra cuttings in the compost, I spread them out to dry all over the flower beds. Squirrels etc completely stopped bothering them! Zero holes and no pests. 😲
I can’t find Brussel sprouts on the Gardening guide and the first frost date is wrong. I’m zone 10a coastal central Ca. First frost late December, last frost mid March approximately I don’t see dates for fall gardening.For example I can plant peas in spring and fall but the guide doesn’t indicate that.
Brian, Just where is this great garden guide?? When I go to the garden guide all I get are ads for commercial items not the watering guide I was looking for???
Does any of this apply to okra?
I enjoy your content but I have to make this comment. there is NO heat in seeds, especially this years cross Polonization. the heat with seeds comes from the pepper surrounding it. seeds from the hottest peppers in the world have no heat if you wash off the outside. there is a bitterness with seeds that I suppose could be mistaken for heat. I agree however about next years crop from saved seeds. thanks for the vid.
Peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, and potatoes are in the nightshade family – and they are warm-soil plants. Thus, late(r) planting of seeds and seedlings is better than early and stunting the plants. Nightshade family are fertilizer vampires. Proper massive fertilization, composting, of the garden bed is almost mandatory. Proper fertilization of planned nightshade plants needs to happen in the Fall, Winter, and EARLY Spring, … and minimal fertilization in Spring and Summer. You want plant growth in Spring, and fruiting in Summer. Follow the proper fertilization protocol.
Spray the aspirin solution upwards, getting all the under-leaf surface portions all covered – where all the bugs hide out. Spraying top-down only covers the leaf top surface where the bugs are NOT ! Also definitely spray the main trunk and the larger branches of the plants keeping other virus, and other diseases off the plant.
I'm in VT. Have potted up my peppers this year (the last pot was 12") and put them out a bit late. They are enormous and full of big, heavy peppers. They're in a raised bed, 32" tall with a cover to protect them from pests. They are now beginning to turn red. But, alas, they are much too big to bring inside in the fall. I have them staked up with 1by 6s. I did not pinch them back due to our short growing season.
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Why Tomato Veg 2-4-2 and not Rose & Flowering 2-6-4? Per your advice I only use Rose & Flowering when my veggies are ready to produce fruit.
Peppers were done in Tucson mid June. First they quit flowering and then they just melted
Last year here in 6b planted to early plants didn't make it. This year planted sweet red bell and everything fine. However didn't realize these bell peppers only give 5-8 peppers per plant. Only 1 person here to fed so glad I at least got a couple and I have to use grow bags. No disease no pest so that's great. And hopefully looks like I am gonna get 5 per plant. Lots of flowers and young fruit fell tho also. Hope they mature to full size still got time so keeping fingers crossed. Lousy weather this year for gardeners here.
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Great tips – I plan to be better about implementing them next year (and overwintering my peppers this year). The one pest no one mentions for peppers is the hornworm. I had a plant decimated overnight by hornworms. I couldn't believe it until I remembered peppers are nightshades just like tomatoes! And your Garden Guide has been so helpful for me figuring out how long to water with my drip system – I couldn't translate 1" per week into how long to run the drip. Thanks so much for that great, FREE tool.
I got a question for you i live in cebu philippines can i leave my peppers in the ground all year and will they come back on their own after harvest will they continue to produce for three or four years i'm mainly talking about bell peppers and jalapeños
Great video! I mean the one thing i might disagree with you on is temperature. Peppers do need warm weather to really mature. But… they are way way more cold tolerant than tomato's. And tomatos can tolerate a light frost.
Peppers are hardy down to almost 25f or so. And be fine. Mine are still producing peppers with light snow on the ground. Serrano. Jalapeño. Thai, bells.
Im not saying you should plant them intentionally to expose them to cold. Just out where im at. Late spring can be 15f-90f. Any given day. I don't need to protect my peppers except for extreme cooler weather and they perform fine.
I'm in San Diego, it's taking forever for my bell peppers to turn red or yellow this year. The peppers are huge and are getting plenty of morning and midday sun. But they just don't seem to want to change color. Any ideas?
Why are orange bell peppers to hard to grow? Mine never look like the store ones – not even close.
So cute ….it’s little…….piercer .💓