Pepper Corking – What is it?
This time of year in Zone 9 peppers are one of the most popular and most prolific crops. Many growers run into what is known as Pepper Corking and incorrectly think there are problems and often give up on the pepper plant.
Congo Peppers – What are They?
One of the most popular hot peppers to grow in the Zone 9 Garden is the Habanero and for years it stood alone as the hottest peppers in the world. While is has long since lost its standing as the hottest, it is still one of the most popular. The Congo Pepper is a verity of the Habanero Pepper that is a little bit larger and a little bit hotter.
How to make Cayenne Powder
Cayenne Peppers are one of the most prolific peppers in the Zone 9 Garden. They grow fast, grow large and produce many peppers. 2 favorite uses from Cayenne Peppers are Crushed Red Pepper and Cayenne Powder. This is how to make the powder.
How to Grow Congo Peppers
The Congo Pepper is a hot pepper that is quickly growing in popularity. It is basically a large red habanaro pepper from Trinidad. Its care requirements are very similar to any hot peppers and here are the basics!
Make Hot Peppers Hotter
A very popular crop to grow during the heat of a Zone 9 summer is hot peppers. Hot Peppers can range in heat from a mild warmth to melt your face off on fire, but while there is quite a bit of variation is pepper variation the techniques to get the most heat out of any particular pepper are the same.
Jalapeno Peppers are Back!
After a long hot summer here in Zone 9, the temperatures are stating to cool just a little bit. This has seemed to spur my Jalapeno Peppers back into production! Fall Bell Peppers Setting Fruit
One of the few things that survives the summer heat from my spring garden are my peppers
How-to Propagate Bell Peppers
Pepper pants are often grown as annuals, but here in zone 9 we can grow them as perennials and propagate them via cutting, learn how here… Step-by-step [...]
Record Rainfall for May
I live, and garden, in a city known as Deltona, FL. Deltona is located just out side of Orlando in Central Florida. Normmaly in the month of May Deltona would see only about 3.5” of rain. There was nothing normal about this month.
May 2009 rainfall for Deltona, FL was over 20”. We saw record numbers for many days strait. In the span of 7 days, May 18-24 Deltona received 13.43” inches of rain! That much rain was harmful to the garden to say the least!
