Overwinter your pepper plants for an early harvest next season. Depending on your region, you can grow them as houseplants or store dormant plants in a cool garage.

Key Points Overwintering pepper plants indoors helps them survive winter and provides head start on spring harvest.Move ...

Earlier harvests. Peppers grown from seeds or transplants usually take at least a few months to fruit after spring planting. Overwintered peppers, on the other hand, have already had a lot of time to ...

As the warm weather of late spring arrives and we look around our landscapes, the mildness of last winter becomes apparent. Tropical plants on the south shore were barely touched by winter cold, and ...

This week's gardening column tackles "heeling in" plants for the winter, when to prune rosebushes and how to keep squirrels from eating tulip bulbs.

Q: I got a potted 'Purple Flash' ornamental pepper plant from a friend and the leaves are all dried up and falling off. I think it didn't get enough water and that a little TLC might restore it. Will ...

The weather took a wintry turn, but the calendar says it’s spring and that means gardening time has returned. You may have questions. For answers, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer ...

Q: What am I supposed to do with my perennial plants in my garden right now? One friend tells me that I supposed to cut everything to the ground and rake it clean to the ground and another friend says ...