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With the right know-how, you’ll be able to work through these obstacles and watch your garden grow towards a successful harvest.

Miniature bell peppers like these can be easily used in a single serving. Peppers, peppers, peppers – in summertime, I can eat my weight in peppers! From fresh salmon roasted with sweet peppers and onions, to jalapeño-spiced quesadillas, there’s always a way to use fresh peppers in my kitchen. Peppers are easy to grow, even in small spaces, and they’re a great veggie for beginning gardeners. Here’s what you need to know to grow your own peppers in your garden. The heat in chili peppers comes from the presence of capsaicin. About Peppers Native to the Americas and Asia, peppers come i...

ATHENS — Home gardeners and commercial farmers alike can attest to the disappointment of seeing a beautiful tomato ripening on a vine, only to discover that the fruit has dark, sunken pits at the blossom end of the fruit. Called blossom-end rot (BER), this physiological disorder is prevalent in fruit and vegetable crops, including tomatoes, and can cause severe economic losses. Through a $475,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, University of Georgia researchers are looking for the genetic and developmental factors of BER wi...