On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week, we're sharing the best tomato & pepper tips from our archives. Listen to segments of past interviews for helpful tips and bountiful knowledge from our guest experts. Just in time for salsa season! These excerpts are from earlier in our podcast history, when we recorded most of them outside in the wild. The audio may not be as good as current episodes, but the information is just what you need…
Brush up on your homesteading skills with this new video on how to make your own homemade cayenne pepper powder.
As summer starts to wane it's time to preserve the harvest, and drying peppers is part of the process. Our guajillo chili peppers (really marisol when fresh, guajillo when dried) are turning red so
Are you a chili grower? Do you like your peppers hot? If that's true, then 101 Chilies to Try Before You Die by David Floyd is for you. Floyd is a chili expert (www.chilefoundry.co.uk) who has written about chili peppers and experimented with chilies for the last 20 years. He's dabbled in selling his own chili products (including chili ice cream) and reports in his introduction to the book that his career took him on many trips to California, "where…
Peppers are ready to harvest. Now if only there were a few good recipes...
Peppers Spice Up Summer Menus
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A fun question came in this week to Ask Gardenerd:
"I am growing a pretty decent size garden in Santa Monica, and I very much appreciate your tips and help! (i.e. Mulch Pit in Culver City). We are culinary people who have
found a true love in gardening. We had great success last year in most of our endeavors (38 tomato plants thanks to your fabulous cradle structures) but one category we fell short in was our
peppers. We tried to grow several types ...
Nature seems to be busting out all over this time of year, not only with flora, but fauna as well. I was over at my parents' house for Memorial Day and, while looking up on the hillside, witnessed a Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom style smack-down between a hawk and a little woodland creature who undoubtedly met his maker that afternoon. My mom has all of her citrus trees covered with strawberry netting in order to fend off the squirrels who…