Most people think peppers grow just like tomatoes. They believe that both have the same planning time, require the same amount of sunlight and similar spacing. They may both be in your garden but they certainly have different requirements. Both peppers and tomatoes love warm soil. Plant your peppers just a little after spring has set in when the soil has tuned warmer and feels really good.

Keep the soil beds raised for faster warming and use black plastic mulch to protect the roots from heavy downpour, which could drown your newly planted seedlings. Epsom salts provide the required magnesium for the peppers to thrive well. For healthy roots, add some compost. You do not really require too many tools to grow peppers; at most you might need to use a rake like the Wolf-Garten DR-M30. Drip water irrigation is the ideal method to water peppers in the garden. This method of watering peppers not only helps prevents diseases but also helps keep water to a minimum. Sweet peppers require mulching, as their roots are shallow. The addition of fertilizers at regular intervals is important as proper nutrition is released to the peppers in a slow manner throughout the season.

Since most pepper plants grow to a height of 2 feet, you can vary the spacing. Top leaves of the plants can touch each other as this will provide a shade for the peppers and roots when the sun gets too hot in summer. Use stakes to protect your pepper plants from high winds. Day and night temperatures play a crucial role in the flowering of pepper plants. During extreme temperature fluctuations, the flowers are most likely to fall off. However when the temperatures become cooler flowering takes place once again.

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