All chile peppers vary in heat. On the Scoville heat scale, the jalapeño is rated 2,500 to 5,000 units—a “medium-hot” pepper. If you’re interested in growing other hot peppers, you can follow this same guide. It’s fun to grow a variety, especially if you yearn for the burn!
The zoo's annual Valentine's Day tradition helps raise funds to support the zoo's "vision of securing a future for wildlife in Texas and around the world." For a donation of $5–25, you can name a cockroach after your ex-partner and receive a digital Valentine's Day card – your ex...
If you are starting from seeds, we recommend you first plant those seeds indoors, grow seedlings, and then replant them in the ground. The easiest way to raise tomato seedlings is to usetrays like these. Fill these trays with potting soil and sow the seeds 1/2 inch deep in the soil 6...
Suckers, or side shoots, grow in the “v” of the stem and branch. You can pinch them off or leave them. Leaving the suckers on produces more tomatoes. But these will be smaller tomatoes. If you have a large tomato plant, like the indeterminates, you might want to prune the side sh...
What makes them good: These bugs prey on garden pests such as grubs, gypsy moth caterpillars, the larvae of beetles such as the Colorado potato beetle and the Mexican bean beetle, hornworms, imported cabbage looper, imported cabbage worm (also known as "broccoli worms"), webworms and army...
Silkworms are revered for their ability to produce fine silk thread, but many people also raise silkworms as pets. They're easy to care for, but they need plenty of food. Silkworms will only eat fresh mulberry leaves or silkworm chow (made...