Pepper Growing Mistakes - How to Avoid or Fix Them...How to Grow Peppers.

In this organic gardening video, Brian with California Garden TV 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, fertilizing peppers and so much more!

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[willtopper]

On the advice of an older central European woman I started planting my peppers about a foot apart rather than 18". She said the leaves of the plants should touch each other as flowering begins.Planting them a bit closer than 18 increased my fruit production A LOT. The Habaneros looked like fully decorated Christmas trees as the peppers ripened through their colors. Most people would say my plants looked crowded.... but man o man did they produce. All varieties, , , bells, habs, jalapeno, thai. Also I run my pole beans along the west garden fence which provides the semi shade in the afternoon

[kristagagean]

I wintered my peppers without realizing it a few years ago I had one in a potted plant from a season prior and I kept it in doors and kept it alive it was down to next to no leaves and I thought it was dead but it was sleeping and come the spring put it in the window and it bounced back fiercely and ended up giving me quite a few peppers so I definitely like that idea.

[charlesdavis]

I had no idea that pepper plants shouldn’t be dug up and discarded after growing season. Thanks Brian. I finally confessed to my neighbors the source of my new found gardening expertise.

[RWG]

Love this format, direct coverage of topic without too much fluff!

[robertbookwalter]

I'm over 70 and I remember my granddad telling me when I was very young and allowed to help in the garden to never plant tomatoes anywhere near a walnut tree and I always followed that rule. Glad to hear that you agree. Thank you.

[saraicg_]

1. Planted too early
2. Not enough sun or too much
3. Improper spacing
18 inches spacing preference
4. Improper watering
Water from below and gently
5. Using the wrong fertiliser
Very sensitive to nitrogen
6. Not pruning them
If you don't prune them it will be tall
and produce less growth points
7. Not staking them
8. Not continually harvesting
9. Not keeping on top of pests
Spray with neem oil or aspirin 60ml of uncoated aspirin in a cup of water in a blender add to a gallon of water then spray
10. Not over wintering

[PaullaWells]

I can’t wait to try to over winter my peppers. Love that thought because it’s free. 😂

[debiegordon]

That TIP on ASPRIN is GENIUS!! 💚💚💚🌼🌼🌼🌞🌞🌞

[Ahoz]

Wish there was a love button, did not know you could replant peppers from existing plants like that. Going to try the aspirin trick now

[NMWriterofWords]

One thing here in New Mexico we do is plant them extremely close together. They like to hold hands in our exceptionally hot weather in Southern New Mexico and helps protect them from sunburn. We had a surprise snow in October that took out a lot of my pepper plants and then we got an exceptionally deep snow with multiple days of freezing weather so I will be starting over. But my pepper bed has a lot of pods that have fallen so that's OK. When thing I did 2 years ago is cross a mad hatter pepper with a mild yellow banana pepper and last year I got some great results from that I'm hoping to repeat it this year. They were not only beautiful they tasted fantastic.

[nerdroom]

Great, Brazilian and Portuguese people are watching your videos, please make more! You are so directly to the point, that is great!

[meridenewoodson]

I moved from the gulf coast to zone 6b. Lots of differences in gardening between the two. Your video was so comprehensive that it covered most of my questions. Also great to learn peppers are perennials. Thanks a bunch!

[erikasweet]

Peppers have always been my least successful crop, probably because I've been very successful at making a number of the mistakes on your list! 🙄

[loveligon]

I definitely swear by your pruning technique. I’m so glad I watched the video just in time to prune. It produced so much more fruit than any other year I’ve grown them.

[silentthunder]

Sigh. Socially distancing my plants is so hard. I always want to pack things in cuz I have a small space. But i try 😁

[dogslobbergardens]

Over-wintering peppers indoors is great, just remember to harden them off to direct sunlight again in the spring before leaving them outside full-time. It may seem like not much is happening for a couple weeks, but once that small established rootball settles in and starts growing they'll take off nicely, either in containers or beds.

[jinafromwv]

Always great advice and as usual... learned some things that I didn’t know!! Should be a mandatory/core class in schools!! Everyone should know just how gratifying and actually easy planting your own garden can be!! I know, I was almost 50 before I planted mine, upon my brother’s insistence!! 😊 so glad he was hardheaded!!

[Katz]

I’m just starting veggie gardening and watching many of your videos over and over. Thank you for your helpful information. My sweet potato slips just popped up and I’m so excited! Can’t wait to plant! 🦋

[Supergenesia]

Always ALWAYS learn something new from you!! 👏🏼

[sheaholloway]

Thank you for taking the time to educate! This will be my first garden and, thus, first take on growing peppers. I'm grateful for those who impart wisdom so I can avoid mistakes.