Category Archives: Chili Pepper Gardening
Plant Chili Peppers for Earth Day
Happy Earth Day, everyone! We know that most of you will be encouraged to plant a tree in honor of Earth Day. While you’re at it, try your hand at gardening as well. A garden is a wonderful way to support the Earth and also for eating fresh and healthy. Chili peppers are a perfect garden choice, delivering a huge variety, numerous health benefits of chili peppers, idea flavors and addictive spice. Plant your chili peppers today for Earth Day! Continue reading
Help I married a Chilihead – Spice Blends
Being married to a Chilihead for nearly 17 years, I have noticed a major transformation. I have not just become a chilihead myself, but I find that I really need spice. And I mean on everything. I add spice to food before Mike sometimes. I can’t stand bland food anymore. Everything Mike cooks has bold flavors and 95% of the time is spicy. I am so into doctoring up meals when dining out at restaurants that even my friends know I have the spices in my purse and I’ll likely be pulling them out. Continue reading
How to Pickle Chili Peppers
I’ve been asked many times about how to pickle chili peppers. It is actually a rather simple process and one of my favorite ways to preserve chili peppers. While there are a number of recipes you can use, this is one of my favorites for its ease of execution, and also for the resulting flavor.
Growing Chili Peppers
It’s that time of year! We hope your chili pepper garden has been planted outside and are taking proper root. Pretty much no matter where you live in the US, you should have already started your chili peppers from seeds unless you’ll be buying seedlings for your garden. We are in the Chicago area (zone 5) and have our chili pepper plants transplanted. We’re growing about a dozen types again this year. Continue reading
A Chili Pepper Gardening Question
Chili peppers are very slow to germinate so it’s always good to wait. Continue reading
Chili Pepper Gardening – May
May is upon us and as the aphorism goes, “April showers bring May flowers”, which means it’s time to be thinking about the garden. Pretty much no matter where you live in the US, you should have already started your chili peppers from seeds unless you’ll be buying seedlings for your garden. We are in the Chicago area (zone 5) and still have several weeks prior to transplanting but we have plenty going on inside with about a dozen different types of chili peppers going.
