By the end of May, my mistake has fully set in.  maybe 10 percent of the plants I put outside at the beginning of the month will make it.  the rest are gonners.  quite withered, and leaveless.  it is really kind of sad.
I realized this about a week after I planted and already started seeds […]

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It was not too long, middle of april or so, before I was needing to stake some of my peppers still in their 3″ pots because they were getting so tall.  I could already see evidence of many of them having roots growing through the sides and bottom of the pots that they were in.
I […]

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it was not too far into march, although I can’t remember exactly when, that my pepperlings were needing bigger homes.
I transplanted every one of them to 3″ pots, the kind that you can plant… I think they are made out of recycled paper or something like that.
after about a week of watering them every day, […]

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wow, it is may… somehow since my last post, a lot has happened. 
The First week in Feb, I started my seeds.  I used those seed starting green houses with the little pucks of dirt that expand when you add water.  they worked great.  I had two seeds in each puck, and 12 pucks per type […]

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I am hoping and praying all these seeds take, and I can go nuts harvesting with rubber gloves this summer.  But here is the Lineup for my 2008 garden: NuMex Mirasol De Arbol Chile Pepper, Mesilla Cayenne, NuMex Pinata, Serrano, NuMex Sandia, NuMex Espanoia Improved, Tabasco, Omnicolor, Aji Limon, Orange Habanero, and Last but not […]

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Here I am, many years later, much out of practice as far as my ability to eat something hot.  But even more entrigued and in desire of regaining all those talents and abilities.
Last year, I planted my first Garden, in which I had a 3’wide by 15’ long raised bed of several kinds of peppers.  […]

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My dad was an electrical engineer, he worked with electrical engineers.  It is my opinion that engineers (in a stereotypical world) all think alike.  Anyway, he and his co-workers began growing their own peppers at the office.  Numbering plants and branches, and then grafting hotter branches to hotter plants… I’m sure it was all very […]

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A few years after the Mustard beginnings, when I was in High School, my dad began bringing home Jalapeno peppers.  We sliced them up, and ate them on Waverly Wafers with sharp cheddar cheese. 
I think it was something about where we lived, but the Jalapeno’s we got from our grocery store were much hotter than […]

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When I was younger, maybe 10 or 11 years old, my dad gave me some mustard on a piece of pork at a Chinese Restaurant.  It was clear your sinuses hot mustard and I had a difficult time maintaining my composure.  However, when the meal was over, I still had not finished my glass of […]

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Bringing your chile plants indoors for the winter
It’s that time of year again, when I look outside at all those wonderful chile pods that have yet to ripen on the plants, and watch the weather report looking for the big freezes. I can’t save all of them, but I am able to keep a small […]

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