Get Your Chili Pepper Gardens Ready!

We know you're excited. Who isn't excited and anxious for chili pepper gardening? With so many pepper choices and so many recipes begging and pleading for peppers, not to mention taste buds, this is the time of year to begin your garden planning. Winter is mostly behind us and Spring is on the way.

Now is the time to start sowing your pepper seeds for your garden. We at Chili Pepper Madness are in zone 5 and it is now about 10 weeks prior to the last frost. You need to start your seeds between 6-10 weeks prior to the last frost. Be sure to check your seed packets to determine the best time for that particular pepper.

We place 2-3 seeds into the peat pellets in a tray. There are plenty of ways to start seeds but we find this the easiest since the seed starting tray has a lid. The lid holds in the moisture and the heat to help the seeds germinate.

Peppers in particular need a lot of heat to germinate. They germinate slower than other vegetables so the environment they are in is important or they may not germinate. If you are behind schedule, soak the seeds for a day or two in plain water or salt water to speed the germination.

Today we started our poblano peppers. After placing the seed into the peat tray, we watered it until it grew to full height. You'll want to remove the netting from the top of the pellet and space the seeds out.

Cover the seeds with a very tiny amount of seed starting soil or peat. Watering from underneath will help the pellet grow and the seeds stay in place. Once the pellet has grown to
it's full height, dump the remaining water out of the tray.

Then placed the lid on the tray and place the tray in a warm location with indirect sunlight. Keep the soil slightly moist without overwatering for the weeks following. Poblanos take 10-25 days to emerge. Once they've sprouted, remove the cover from the tray and place the tray in full sunlight. Once the first two full sets of leaves have formed, transplant to a small pot.

Stay tuned next month for more chili pepper growing progress! You can always visit our Pepper Growing Pages online as well.

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Theme Month at MyKitchenMadness.com

We're trying something new at the Madness series of web sites - theme months! Each month we'll focus on recipes and information related to a specific theme, centered around each web site theme as well, of course.

March Theme: Spicy Mustard Recipes!

Jalapeno Miss recently stopped at the Mustard Museum in Madison, Wisconsin and couldn't help herself. She came home with a boat load of spicy mustard jars! So, we've decided to focus some of our recipes this month on spicy mustard. We aren't huge fans of your typical yellow mustard, but give us a good spicy jalapeno or habanero mustard any day! Keep an eye on the web sites for recipes coming soon.

We'll be posting information on our mother site, www.MyKitchenMadness.com as well.

New Recipe!

We're always working up new chili pepper recipes! Here is one of our latest, in honor of Spicy Mustard Month.

Interesting Chili Peppers in the News

Top 10 Hot Chili Reactions

Here's a fun post over at ecollegetimes.com. This blogger posted his top 10 list of people eating extremely hot peppers. Quite the funny list. You'll find a lot of these at YouTube.com.

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Air Drying Characteristics of Chili Pepper

If you really want to get down to the scientific facts behind drying chili peppers, you'll need to get on the train and read this post by the International Journal of Food Engineering. I didn't even know they existed until today, but I'm glad they're studying chili peppers!

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NM food producers prep for Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show

The Fiery Foods and Barbecue show is this weekend in New Mexico! Who went?

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Celebrity Chili: Make Dr. Oz's Spicy Chili at Home

Posted at People.com, we thought you might like to make some celebrity chili!

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Students show off their experiments at regional science fair

Here is some cool news. A scientific minded young student won the 6th Grade Science Fair studying chili peppers! What a great subject! Using chromatography, she tested whether the pigment of the chili peppers was related to their spiciness and found that the milder the color, the hotter the pepper. Nice!

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Hottest Chili Pepper In The World Used In Hand Grenades

Did you know this? Now you do! So many uses for chili peppers.

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Chili Pepper Designs

We've got several new designs available through CafePress.com for all you chili pepper lovers out there.

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