Well it all starts here, my garden! In mid- February of each year I start my seedlings off. I grow a variety of vegetables, my favourite being hot peppers! No surprise there! My pepper’s range from the tiny Birds Eye to Big Jim. During mid-April I use a cold frame, which my husband built. It’s important to harden off plants before transplanting outside.

Starting around the end of May I start to plant. I now dust the vegetables to protect them from the bugs. I learned the first year that I tried gardening, that bugs quickly ate my plants. I was devastated to see such damage, especially after all the work I put into the plants.

I enjoy gardening very much and I take great pride as well as care into my garden. I work at it daily to maintain a weed free garden! I have tested almost every gardening technique. I have tried to perfect the easiest and most rewarding techniques to growing a healthy productive crop! I use a wide row method with raised beds, I spend less time, thinning and weeding, this way I can thoroughly enjoy my garden!

In my opinion peppers are the prettiest plants in my garden, especially when they’re loaded with dozens of green, red, yellow, brown, orange, purple and just a multitude of colours!

Peppers are the easiest to grow, but having said that, I see people that have trouble with them, because, they push them too hard. What do I mean? People fertilize them too much! I give them a small tsp. Of complete fertilizer 5-10-10 at planting time, and no more than two tsp. at blossom time.

Bad weather can also contribute to plant damage; cold spells can cause blossoms to falls off. There’s nothing in this case where you can do anything about it, you just have to be patient, and wait for new blossoms to appear. I try 1 tsp. Of Epsom salts when the blossoms first start to appear. This is a great source of magnesium, a plant food that pepper plants need to set fruit.

I just love peppers! My garden is a treat for the curious pepper lover!!  I look forward to harvest time, and I enjoy sampling them, before I add them to a recipe that I’ve created! I will blanch my peppers, and into the food processor they go to make my hot sauces for the winter!

I can honestly tell you this since being a chilihead lover, I rarely get a cold, and when I do I always clear it up with a dash of my hot sauce, I kid you not!

These photos document the work of Mother Nature! More will be added as the Summer progresses.I already have plants with pepper’s.They are looking GREAT!!  I am always amazed at the end result.

Here's a sample of what can result........

From left to right Yellow Habanero, Purple Serano, Jamaican Hot Chocolate, Birdseye, Firecracker and Red Mushroom.