Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are scarce in your area or you're growing fruit-bearing plants indoors, hand-pollinating is ...

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Growing peppers indoors is a bit more complicated than growing peppers in a vegetable garden, but it is doable. Pepper plants are native to Central and South America and thrive in hot, sunny, and ...

We are finally getting the right weather to ripen tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, basil and a whole host of other warm-season crops. We will get a bump into the 90s for a few days and then another ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at gnogardening@agcenter.lsu.edu. Is it true that if you plant hot peppers on the same row as sweet ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...