Category Archives: Growing Chili Peppers
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
Heat Waves Make Potent Chili Peppers
Are you noticing a difference in your chili pepper heat this year? It could be because of tough weather conditions. One thing we’ve always known about chili peppers is this – they love heat. Continue reading
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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.
An Interview with Butch Taylor, propagator of the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, World’s Hottest Chili Pepper
The growers also named the pepper the “Trinidad Scorpion Butch T”, after Butch, much to Butch’s surprise. This chili pepper is the possible cross between a Trinidad Scorpion and as as-yet-named chili pepper that Butch is holding close to his chest in hopes of creating even hotter peppers in the future.
