Dave:Is the desert a good place to grow peppers.. I will be moving to Nevada and not sure if my peppers will grow in such heat.Thanks,Frances Frances:Yes, as long as they are well irrigated, you can grow peppers in the desert. Mine grow fine here in Albuquerque.–Dave
Dry Spice Suppliers needed
Hi Dave,Thanks to you for answering the questions in "Ask Dave!" I am starting a brick and mortar Hot Sauce and Spice store in the next year. I have done well (I think) in hammering out suppliers for the sauce side of the business (many heartfelt thanks to you for some of the leads your site provided) I am having …
Recipe Conversion Help needed
Dave-I have a question for you. My little sauce business is picking up and right now my recipe roughly makes 4 bottles per batch. I want to increase my batches, I’ve been experimenting with the amount of ingredients that is going into my batches to get a large output. But the taste isn’t exactly the same. Do you know of …
Salsa Maker seeking Pepper Destemmers
Hello!I am trying to help some friends of mine take their very delicious hot pepper salsa to market and one thing that we need is some way to mechanically stem the peppers (the peppers are small – Thai peppers I believe). Are there pepper destemmers out there? Or is this something that has to happen at harvest time? In other …
Chiles and Tomatoes interbreeding?
Hi Dave,Years ago I grew tomatoes and peppers in the same garden, side by side. One of the tomato plants’ fruit seemed to acquire all of the properties of the bell pepper–hollow inside, with the seed cluster in the middle, towards the top–but it was still a tomato. I thought it was just a fluke, so I took the seeds …