The Garden Bug: Pepper plants spread

Advice & Tips
Written By The Weekly Bean

By Brenda Weaver

Pepper plants are perennials, propagated by seeding directly in the soil or by transplanting seedlings started in greenhouses. Pepper fruits come in many shapes and sizes. Traces of them have been found in prehistoric ruins in Peru and Mexico, and the plants were widely grown in Central and South America by pre-Columbian civilizations. Its seeds were carried to Spain in 1493, and spread rapidly throughout Europe.

Source: www.britannica.com

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