If you’re a home gardener, you’ve probably experienced the dreaded Zucchini Syndrome. Over-producing squash plants make the zukes faster than your family can eat them. You try to give them away, but no one wants them because they’re now larger than your cat. Well, the same thing can happen to chile plants, which is why I wrote Too Many Chiles with Nancy and Jeff Gerlach. But at least you can dry the chile pods to preserve them—something you can’t do easily with zucchinis and large tomatoes.
The Scovies: Help Us, Help You
Now in their 18th year, the Scovie Awards have helped out a lot of fiery foods and barbecue companies gain the recognition they deserve. That’s never a bad thing when you’re trying to get the word out about your great products. Lusty Monk Mustard won the 2013 Grand Prize after 8 years of entering, and winning no awards at all …
Why NOT Eat the Easter Bunny?
Springtime is just around the corner, and fluffy, newborn animal babies are taking their first shaky steps. The last thing you’d want to do is eat one of them…right?
2013 Fiery Foods Show Frolics
For twenty-five years the National Fiery Foods & BBQ Show has been THE place to be if you are a chilehead or a BBQ fiend looking for the newest spicy fix.
The Burn’ed Christmas List, Part 2
When Burn! Blog editor Mark asked me to put together my version of a Christmas list, I decided to recap some of the products I’ve featured in past posts, all of which I personally love. I added a few new things too!
Dave DeWitt’s Chile Trivia Book Wins Award
This just in! Dave DeWitt’s Chile Trivia won the Best Gardening Book category at the 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards! If you haven’t ordered your copy yet, better get after it.
Reader Question: Growing Chiles as a Business
We received this message from a reader who wants to get into the business end of chile growing, and asked The Pope of Peppers for some advice. Here’s Brandon’s question and Dave’s answer.
