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Growing Hot Peppers in 6B in Nova Scotia

Here's one of our seed customer's recent question:

Pepper Growing Question:
I live in the South shore of Nova Scotia and my husband wants me to grow jalapeno peppers or habanaros. I am a zone 6b. what would you suggest?

Answer:
We'd recommend any of our short season peppers, such as our Early Jalapeno or our pretty Yellow Jalapeno

Find lots more of our top picks for
peppers to grow in shorter growing seasons here: 

Short Season Peppers

Here are some of our top tips for Growing Peppers Faster:

1. Grow Early Season Peppers
2. Start seeds EARLY indoors!

Read more tips on How to Grow Chilli Plants Faster »

Grow Peppers Faster

Let us know how they do for you! Happy growing!
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