Growing Jalapenos: Raising Your Organic Vegetable Seed
Jalapeño peppers are medium hot chillies that are commonly used in main dishes and salads, salsas, guacamole and even bloody marys. Containing vitamin A, vitamin C, fiber, potassium and folic acid, growing jalapenos is an ideal pepper to plant from an organic vegetable seed because they produce 25 to 35 peppers a season if given the right start. Planting Jalapenos Indoors Begin growing these hot pepper plants indoors so that the seedlings get the nutrients they need without threat from [...]
Jalapeno Pepper Basics: Growing Jalapenos 101
Growing jalapeno peppers can be done by starting them from seed or by purchasing from a nursery. Of all the hot pepper varieties, jalapeno peppers are most popular. The seeds are named after their place of origin in Mexico and are one of the most important cash crops in this country. Hotness of these peppers lies anywhere between 2,500 to 10,000 Scoville units. For comparison, the heat index of common sweet green peppers is zero, while the hottest peppers measure [...]
