This page is dedicated to the love and cultivation of successful chile gardens
"CULTIVATION": To prepare soil and promote the growth of a plant, crop, etc.– by Labor and Attention.
"CULTIVATION": To prepare soil and promote the growth of a plant, crop, etc.– by Labor and Attention.
Hardening-Off and Transplanting Seedlings
Prepare pepper seedlings for the rigors of the early spring garden.
To read the complete story > Link to Dave DeWitt's website
Prepare pepper seedlings for the rigors of the early spring garden.
To read the complete story > Link to Dave DeWitt's website
Latest News from Dave DeWitt 5/31/16
The Pepper Growing Season Maximizing Your Pepper Pod Yield Don't miss this detailed article on pepper cultivation. It contains important information on Flowering and Pollination and Cross Pollination, Weeds and Fruiting. To read the complete story > Link to Dave DeWitt's website |
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Helpful Links for Chile Gardeners
Seven Hacks for Chile Gardeners By Harald Zoschke, CHILI-BARBECUE.DE
Pepper Gardening 101 Thanks to Dave DeWitt. Lots of photos and links plus all the info you'll need for a great
pepper garden.
Cross Country Nurseries This Web site offers 500 varieties of chiles and sweet pepper plants. Plus beautiful color photos of all of their peppers with detailed information. When in season, they sell fresh chile pods, including the Super Hots. My go-to source for good seedlings for my chile patch.
Chile Pepper Institute The Chile Pepper Institute is devoted to education and research related to Capsicum or chile peppers. Located on the New Mexico State University campus, Las Cruces, NM.
Christopher Phillips Rare Seed Collection Smokin' Ed Currie, PuckerButt Pepper Company and Christopher Phillips are partnering to present this rare seed collection for an ever-expanding pepper loving and growing community. Christopher has grown exotic varieties for well over 10 years. Pepper types in this exceptional collection range from Mild to Stupid Hot and originate from around
the world. I have grown many of Christopher's chiles.
Reimer Seeds Pepper Store Over 1,500 varieties of seeds including the Red Savina Habanero and the Super Hots. Check out their Hotness test program. Great web site.
Devil'sChili Pepper Seeds An Italian grower and seed dealer featuring hot exotics and hybrids. Secure payments through PayPal and delivery by post, about 2 weeks to the US. Check them out.
The Chile Woman Specializing in an extensive collection of quality, organic chile plants & seeds.
Native Seed Search A great nonprofit organization that is worthy of public support, preserving Native American heirloom crop seeds. They also offer chile powders, dried pods, beans, corn products and much more.
Redwood City Seed Co. A longtime S.F. Bay Area seed company. See his Hot Pepper Growing Tips and Special Collections of peppers.
Trade Winds Fruit A huge selection of tropical fruit, ornamental and temperate plant seeds. Also a extensive selection of heirloom and rare tomato, hot pepper, herb and vegetable plant seeds. LOTS OF CHILE SEEDS!.
Peaceful Valley Farm & Garden Supply State-of-the-art, organic growing supplies, information and tools to apply them. A great selection of quality products for frost protection with row covers for a backyard garden to a large farm. All the supplies needed to keep things firmly in place through winter weather and shady in the summer. They sell "Cow Pots" & "Smart Pots" for starting plants.
Fatalii.net A prolific chile grower in Finland, offering Chile products, seeds, growing guides, articles.
If you open his browser and it is not in English, open in Google to translate to English.
Bonsai Chile Plants He calls them "Bonchis" – Fatillii is friggn incredible and someone that I have admired for a long time. He is is very skilled at what he's doing. Visit his site and see what he has accomplished.
http://www.fatalii.net/Bonsai_Chiles_Bonchi
Bugs Put The Heat In Chili Peppers
ScienceDaily (Aug. 11, 2008) —New research shows they are the ones responsible for the heat in chili peppers.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080811195315.htm
To Turn Up the Heat in Chilies, Just Add Water
ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2011) — Biologists have learned in recent years that wild chilies develop their trademark pungency, or heat, as a defense against a fungus
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221091924.htm
Need a source or information? Let me help you find it.
Click on the "Contact" page.
Keep'n It Hot
Peppahead
Seven Hacks for Chile Gardeners By Harald Zoschke, CHILI-BARBECUE.DE
Pepper Gardening 101 Thanks to Dave DeWitt. Lots of photos and links plus all the info you'll need for a great
pepper garden.
Cross Country Nurseries This Web site offers 500 varieties of chiles and sweet pepper plants. Plus beautiful color photos of all of their peppers with detailed information. When in season, they sell fresh chile pods, including the Super Hots. My go-to source for good seedlings for my chile patch.
Chile Pepper Institute The Chile Pepper Institute is devoted to education and research related to Capsicum or chile peppers. Located on the New Mexico State University campus, Las Cruces, NM.
Christopher Phillips Rare Seed Collection Smokin' Ed Currie, PuckerButt Pepper Company and Christopher Phillips are partnering to present this rare seed collection for an ever-expanding pepper loving and growing community. Christopher has grown exotic varieties for well over 10 years. Pepper types in this exceptional collection range from Mild to Stupid Hot and originate from around
the world. I have grown many of Christopher's chiles.
Reimer Seeds Pepper Store Over 1,500 varieties of seeds including the Red Savina Habanero and the Super Hots. Check out their Hotness test program. Great web site.
Devil'sChili Pepper Seeds An Italian grower and seed dealer featuring hot exotics and hybrids. Secure payments through PayPal and delivery by post, about 2 weeks to the US. Check them out.
The Chile Woman Specializing in an extensive collection of quality, organic chile plants & seeds.
Native Seed Search A great nonprofit organization that is worthy of public support, preserving Native American heirloom crop seeds. They also offer chile powders, dried pods, beans, corn products and much more.
Redwood City Seed Co. A longtime S.F. Bay Area seed company. See his Hot Pepper Growing Tips and Special Collections of peppers.
Trade Winds Fruit A huge selection of tropical fruit, ornamental and temperate plant seeds. Also a extensive selection of heirloom and rare tomato, hot pepper, herb and vegetable plant seeds. LOTS OF CHILE SEEDS!.
Peaceful Valley Farm & Garden Supply State-of-the-art, organic growing supplies, information and tools to apply them. A great selection of quality products for frost protection with row covers for a backyard garden to a large farm. All the supplies needed to keep things firmly in place through winter weather and shady in the summer. They sell "Cow Pots" & "Smart Pots" for starting plants.
Fatalii.net A prolific chile grower in Finland, offering Chile products, seeds, growing guides, articles.
If you open his browser and it is not in English, open in Google to translate to English.
Bonsai Chile Plants He calls them "Bonchis" – Fatillii is friggn incredible and someone that I have admired for a long time. He is is very skilled at what he's doing. Visit his site and see what he has accomplished.
http://www.fatalii.net/Bonsai_Chiles_Bonchi
Bugs Put The Heat In Chili Peppers
ScienceDaily (Aug. 11, 2008) —New research shows they are the ones responsible for the heat in chili peppers.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080811195315.htm
To Turn Up the Heat in Chilies, Just Add Water
ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2011) — Biologists have learned in recent years that wild chilies develop their trademark pungency, or heat, as a defense against a fungus
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221091924.htm
Need a source or information? Let me help you find it.
Click on the "Contact" page.
Keep'n It Hot
Peppahead