Murphy’s Creek Chilli Festival 2017 We will be at this years Murphy’s Creek Chilli Festival 2017 and we will be selling live chilli plants including the “Reaper!” What you need to know The Murphy’s Creek Chilli Festival is the place…
Life skills for kids – teach your kids to grow their own food. Children gardening skills Should gardening be taught in schools? I have read many articles claiming it should be the responsibility of schools to teach our children gardening…
Growing chillies in winter Well we have just entered winter and the chili plants are starting to feel the cold. I’m not sure what everyone else does over winter but this is basically my approach to growing chillies over winter….
Chillies over winter Are you concerned about keeping your chillies alive throughout the winter? It is possible and something worth doing. By keeping your chillies alive you will have an advantage the following year. You will not have to just…
Wilting Chillies Concerned about wilting chillies? Are you giving your chillies enough water? How often should you water your chillies? What causes chili plants to suddenly wilt? These are some of the questions I’ll attempt to answer in this post….
Harvesting Chilli Seeds I’m not sure if this is something that needs to be explained and I’m sure everyone has got their own way of harvesting chilli seeds. Anyway this is how I do it and I seem to have…
Chilli Seeds Stubborn Reaper Seeds So how long does it take for Carolina Reaper chilli seeds to sprout? I have had mixed results, most seeds sprout within a week but I have had seeds take months. Actually the reason I…
Carolina Reaper Chilli Chocolate Well yesterday was our first outing selling chilli chocolate. We went to the Jimboomba markets and set up a small temporary site. So how did we go? It was fun watching the reaction of people as…
The Hottest Pepper In the World The Carolina Reaper The Carolina Reaper, now famously known as the world’s hottest chili pepper, averages 1,569,300 SHU on the Scoville Scale with levels that even peak over 2,200,000 SHU. In other words, it’s…