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Ciao all- It's almost time for American Thanksgiving and since all of you love your spicy food, I thought I'd ask for some inspirational spicy twisted Thanksgiving recipes instead of the normal English-based tradition, which lacks any spice at all. What are your favourites?

Ciao all- The season is rapidly winding down, but Duane still has quite a number of different peppers on his plants. There are some particular varieties of his that are quite popular and in demand, but I'm at a bit of a loss for what to make with them: Purira, Pimienta de Neyde, Siling...

Ciao all- I'm hoping to find a few seeds of each of these varieties ASAP for this year. Duane's searched his seed box and he can't find them. I'm sure many of us can relate to that feeling. I can do an SASE (I have some American stamps) or a trade for tomato seeds - I have an extensive...

Ciao all- I'm sort of late to the party for this, but I've expanded my own growing responsibilities significantly and I'm now playing catch-up for Duane's stuff. Round 1 - Sown 30 Jan 11, potted up 27 Feb 11: Chinense Zavory - no heat 2/13 5/6 Cappuccino Habanero 2/8 1/3 Peach Habanero 2/9...

Ciao all- The list is smaller this year. Duane is after these peppers and there are a couple of tomatoes I'm looking for as well. If there are particular tomato varieties that you're looking for but don't see here and have the pepper varieties on this list, contact me anyway. I may just have...

Ciao all- Duane spent a lot of the recent Ontario Civic Holiday babysitting his smoker. He wanted to do something big with it and settled on a large pork shoulder for pulled pork. Not wanting to devote a lot of fuel to one thing, he also smoked 2 racks of pork ribs we had in the freezer...

Ciao all- Since there was some interest in the early tomatoes I grew last year, I thought I'd devote a little thread to it and post my progress. I'm only growing 2 earlies this year: Ditmarsher, an OP tumbling pink cherry and Tigerette Cherry Gold, a gold version of a normally red striped...

Ciao all- This looks to be the list for this year. Some are not commercial varieties and some are being grown out for friends to replentish seed stock and some are experimental. The question marks are undecided or ones I haven't obtained yet. Edited 3 April 10: question marks have now been...

Ciao all- Here's what Duane's got growing on this year. Flat #1: Mostly all germinated now and some have been transplanted already. More transplanting is to happen today (famous last husband words): Large White Habanero Yellow Habanero Red Rocoto Hot Paper Lantern Cubanelle Sweet Pickle...

Ciao all- I've put together my trade list for this year. These are the varieties of tomatoes I'll be offering for 2010: Tomatoes 2009 Marianna's Peace Gezahnthe Aunt Ruby's German Cherry Moonglow Bali Cherokee Chocolate Tomatoes 2008 Uncle Charlie's Giant Italian Pear Manitoba...

Ciao all- After a few years of growing White Bullet Habaneros, Duane would really like to grow a larger-fruited one primarily for drying and making powders. If any of you have a strain of White Habanero that gets to "regular" habanero size, between 1.5-2", I'd be very interested in trading...

Ciao all- Duane's got about a zillion Naga Jolokia Purple pods and really has no clue what to do with them. They're pretty small, but they're also very ornamental. He's thinking about making them into a ristra. Have any of you done this or know how to do it? It seems simple enough, just run...

Ciao all- Duane's now buried in ripe peppers and I've been very busy making use of them, but I have no idea what to do with this one. What is it traditionally used in and where does it come from originally? What do you all use it in?

Ciao all- My basil is starting to look more interesting these days. Therer are 2 cells of each variety except Genovese. From left to right and top to bottom: Anise Cinnamon Purple Russian Blue Spice Napolitano Purple Delight Lime Mrs. Burns Lemon Red Rubin Genovese x 4 Purple Ruffles Siam...

Ciao all- Here's what's going on with my eggplants so far. I sowed my seeds on 20 Feb in pro-mix with bottom heat: Caspers + Tigerette Cherry micro-dwarf tomatoes Rosa Biancas + Red Robin & Florida Petite micro-dwarf tomatoes The Caspers always out-perform other varieties in the...

Ciao all- This is a very basic sauce. I make this when my life is overflowing in fresh tomatoes. It's not cooked down very long at all so if you want a thicker sauce, you can adapt it. For lasagna sauce, you'll want to add tomato paste to make it yet thicker, but you can do that very easily...

Ciao all- I've been looking at your plant photos and I'm noticing how large your plants get plus the production per plant is quite impressive. What are your secrets to this? Especially container growers, please speak up. Duane tries very hard, but he's never had plants get much over 3 ft...

Ciao all- Tomatoes and peppers go together famously. Since all of you here grow amazing peppers, I thought I'd offer to share some of my tomatoes because that's my thing. My husband, Duane, is the pepperhead, but he's just getting started and hasn't really gotten the hang of isolating and...

Ciao all- I won't be sowing these for another 26 days, but I've known what I want to grow for some time. Normally, 5 or so don't germinate, but I do have back-ups planned. Here's hoping this season will be much better than the cool, wet summer we had last year! You'll notice doubles of my...

Ciao all- It's been a while since I posted anything here. Last year was not the best, due to record rain and cooler than normal temperatures. Duane had many setbacks with his peppers, primarily due to having small transplants from the start. This year, based on some feedback that I shared...