Just because you don’t have a garden to grow peppers doesn’t mean that you can’t grow them. Growing peppers in planters is easy. Peppers, especially chili peppers, hold a special place in many gardens. These vibrant and delicious vegetables are fun to grow and can also be decorative
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Growing Peppers in Containers


The Basic Understanding:
Container garden peppers need two important things: water and light. These two things will determine where you will grow pepper plants in a container.

-First, your peppers will need five or more hours of direct sunlight. The more light they can get, the better they will grow.

-Second, your pepper plant is entirely dependent on you for water, so make sure that your container growing pepper plant is located somewhere that you will be able to easily get water to it on a daily basis.

PLANTING
When planting your pepper plant into the container, use organic, rich potting soil; don’t use regular garden soil. Regular garden soil can compact and harm the roots while potting soil will stay aerated, giving the roots room to grow well.

WATERING
As mentioned, a pepper plant will need to get nearly all of its water from you. Because the roots of a pepper plant cannot spread out into the soil to look for water (like they would if they were in the ground), it needs to be watered frequently.

Container garden peppers can be fertilized with compost tea or a slow release fertilizer once a month. Growing peppers in containers can be fun and makes these tasty vegetables available to many gardeners who don’t have a traditional, in-the-ground garden.