By Harald Zoschke, CHILI-BARBECUE.DE Chile Hack # 1 Here’s an idea for an “el cheapo” mini-greenhouse for young pepper plants: Cut off the lower third of a large water bottle, poke a small hole in the bottom, insert soil and your small plant, and water it. Make a 5 cm vertical cut in the upper part so you can …
Chile Translation Guide
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Cheating Mother Nature!
Story and Photos by Steve Foster I’m soon to be 58 years old and have been enamored with growing chile peppers for a number of years! Living here in the farmland of central New York, Cortland actually. I discovered a long time ago that in order to have enough time to bring in a decent crop of chiles in my …
Baccatum Bacchanalia! Growing and Cooking with Ají Chiles
By Dave DeWitt Chile Pepper Bedding Plants… over 500 varieties from Cross Country Nurseries, shipping April to early June. Fresh pods ship September and early October. Go here Chile Pepper Seeds… from all over the world from the Chile Pepper Institute. Go here (Editor’s Note: This is a flashback to my 1994 chile pepper garden.) Sometimes it’s difficult being a …
My Love of Chiltepíns
By Dr. Gerald Schmidt Even among true chileheads, domesticated varieties are the most popular and only a small minority are enthusiastic about wild species. The chiltepin and related bird peppers, the wild forms of the cultivated species, are known to chileheads, but their variations in pod shape and size are not readily apparent. I am enamored of the bird peppers, …
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