Home made Chilli sauce
This is a nice sweet mild chilli sauce, you will get sweet, salty and some gentle spice with this one. Perfect chilli sauce for a typical bacon and eggs breakfast. Or you could put in on almost any meal. chillies…
Candied Chillies
Candied Chillies Candying is one of the most ancient forms of preserving the harvest. When chillies are placed into a syrup and the sugar content is gradually increased, the pods cell liquid gets replaced by sugar. This migration through semipermeable…
Storing chilli seeds
Storing chilli seeds Save seed only from mature pods, never the green ones. Regardless of whether the seeds are produced through self-pollination or cross-pollination, they must be preserved until the next growing season or even later. On the average chilli…
Freezing Chillies
Storing and freezing chillies at home Chillies have unbelievable benefits for health. Chillies can improve your digestive system and lower the level of blood sugar in the body. Apart from those healthy reasons, chillies simply spice up your meals. People…
Growing chillies in greenhouses
Greenhouses and window greenhouses Heated greenhouses are probably best for starting seeds indoors. Chilli-heads fortunate enough to have a greenhouse enjoy plenty of diffused sunlight, heat from both solar gain and heaters, humidity created from other plants, and air circulation…
What Chilli Pepper is that?
What Chilli pepper is that? There is thousands of different chilli peppers to choose from when making a spicy dish for dinner. So what is the best chilli pepper to use? Below we have singled out some of the common...
Organic Farming vs Conventional Farming
Conventional farming Vs Organic farming Growing chillies organically is great for the hobby farmer but is organic farming methods better than conventional farming methods? In this article we will look at each farming method. What is Organic farming? Organic...
chillies in Australia
Common chillies in Australia "Chillies really are an incredible lift not just for the food you’re eating but for your body itself, with all the endorphins that it kicks off." The chemical in chillies that makes them taste hot, capsaicin,...
Growing Chillies
Growing Chillies Growing Chillies for the first time can be tricky. There are many things that can go wrong when sprouting from seed. We have put this easy to follow step by step process to help you be a champion...
Measuring the heat of chillies
Scoville scale (SHU) So what does SHU mean? The Scoville scale is a measurement of the pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers, such as the jalapeño, the ghost pepper, and the world’s current hottest pepper—the Carolina Reaper, or other spicy…