Determining when to pick bell peppers depends on which variety you grew, but expect to wait 60-90 days to harvest. If you start the peppers from seed, they can take closer to 90-150 days to harvest.

A question for Dan Gill: I planted yellow, red and green bell peppers. The green are making out well. The red and yellow flower and make very small peppers, but the stems turn yellow, and they ...

Late summer and early fall are the hottest months of the year in most of California. The extreme heat, often topping 100 degrees, is tough to garden in, but good for both bell and hot peppers.

Few summer vegetables are as taken-for-granted as the humble bell pepper. It gets used in meager salads, as bedding for sausages and, if lucky, stuffed and baked. The bell pepper has become a utili… ...

Pepper plants will tell you when to harvest them. "Good signs of readiness for harvesting peppers is that they look glossy and have reached their mature size and deep color," says Johnsen.

But bell peppers benefit from roasting, too. Roast over an open flame, directly on the burner grate of a gas stove or grill, or under the broiler about 6 inches from the heating element.

Green peppers offer a sharper bite than their sweeter cousins. Their more bracing bitterness plays well in spicy foods, such as fajitas, or rich ones, such as pizza.