Q: What kind of tree has these giant thorns (see picture)? One person told me locust and another said that’s not it. Can one trim them off with a chainsaw? A: This tree trunk is a honey locust ...

Bell peppers are members of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, along with tomatoes and potatoes, and are native to Central and South America. Of all the pepper varieties, bell peppers are among the ...

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Sweet bell peppers, or Capsicum annum, have a deceiving name because although they are peppers, they have zero SHU, or Scoville Heat Units. So you can see that a bell pepper, coming in at zero SHU, is ...

Dr. Natalie Bumgarner plants peppers, and Dr. Frank Hale discusses wood-boring insects. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, UT Extension Residential and Consumer Horticulture ...