Vegetable Gardening : How to Grow Green Peppers

00:14 Jarrett recommends starting with a well-tilled bed that is deep and has plenty of compost or manure. He also notes that peppers are frost intolerant, so it's important to plant them after the risk of frost has passed.

00:50 Most green pepper varieties need about 12 to 18 inches of space, so make holes in the garden bed at that spacing and plant one seed per hole.

01:10 After planting the seeds, cover them with about half an inch to an inch of soil and water them well. Keep the plants well-watered throughout the season, especially when they start to flower and produce peppers.

01:37 Green peppers are the unripe form of colored peppers like red, yellow, or orange. Once a pepper has reached the desired size, it is edible. If left on the plant too long, it will ripen into another color.

02:05 Green peppers will stay green on the plant for about three weeks before they start to ripen, so there is plenty of time to harvest them.