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I know this is kinda political and thus off topic for this forum. But it hits us chileheads and gardeners to the core. So I ask the mods to allow it. The European Union wants to ban heirloom seeds for farm and even private garden use. There will be a penalty if you use saved, shared or...

I haven't been here for a while. I had three bad pepper years because of the bad weather. This year I started a new attempt. I planted a few hundred seeds of Uganda red habaneros I had from an Asia-shop, some bishop's crown, T-scorpion, cayenne, Nepali orange, Dorset naga, Prik hinou and a few...

It's been a busy year and it's been a bad pepper year so I haven't been around for a while. And I'm starting a new hobby: forging and knife making. At the moment I'm still collecting the tools, searching for an anvil, constructing a smith's hearth. I hope to be forging the first projects in a...

Today I started planting on my new field. There is an organic farmer less than two miles away who offers little lots of land to organic hobby gardeners. My neighbor has two lots of about 1000 square feet each this year and needs only 1500 square feet so I took the rest. The lots are handed out...

Hey guys! My times at Lake Constance are coming to an end. I will quit working as a self employed GP and start a new career in psychosomatic medicine in Bavaria. All these changes have absorbed a lot of my time. Thus I haven't been online too much recently. I hope to be back more oftenly in...

Type illuminati backwards into your browser, add .com and watch out for what you get! You'll be surprised!

I was watching the news and the Australian flood was shown again. Are all Aussies here and especially the Queenslanders fine? How are your families? Your pets? Your peppers? Any crocodiles or poisonous snakes in your yard?

This time I decided to cook a multi citrus hot sauce. I had grapefruit, lemon, tangerine and orange. Pepperwise I used yellow habs and bishops crown. I blended them down, added ginger, salt, black pepper and mustard. For better texture and to keep homogeneity I added brown sugar, honey and...

I wish this was my harvest but it ain't! Well, a long picturesque prologue for a little story. One of my patients is fond of hot stuff too and he told me that there is a farm in our area where they grow various kinds of fruit and produce in the greenhouse all year long. They are local heroes...

Again I bought a hand full of cactus figs and I had some orange chinenses left. So I decided to cook some hot sauce again. I had some oranges and some tangerines and I had the idea to use them instead of the lemon juice for some acidity. In two days there will be the first Sunday of the Advent...

A few months ago I started my worm farm to produce my own fertilizer. The farm consists of a few plastic containers. One as a base. One with a valve for collecting the drain liquid, called "worm tea", a good fertilizer used in a 1:10 dilution for watering. One or two with a lot of holes drilled...

My Nopales- / Opuntia-Cactus had about 20 Tunas / Cactus figs. And I had a good handful of baccatum pods: Lemon drop and Inca red drop. All those fruits had to be used and I decided to cook a hot sauce. I carefully removed the prickles, peeled the figs, deseeded them and purreed them with the...

We shall never forget. My 8 years old son has already been ringing the bell. And he knows what it is all about.

Yesterday me, my wife, my daughter and my youngest son had touch down in Atlanta. We will have a 10 hours road trip to Sarasota, FL tomorrow, stay there for a week. Then we will travel to my brother in law in northern Alabama.

A happy Independence Day to all my U.S. friends from extraterritorial ground at Lake Constance, Germany!

My wife gave me a new hammock stand and finally the weather is great so here's a pic of junior in MY hammock. WTF? I should be in there! ;) Can you imagine why my wife calls the hammock stand "Kontiki"?

Has anyone ever used cactus figs as base or ingredient of a hot sauce? What did you add to or combine with?

I'm a bit late this year but now most of my seedlings are little plants. I hope to have them big enough next week to bring them out in the yard.

Hey guys! This year I will plant most of my peppers into soil, not into pots. And if all the seedlings survive there will be a lot of plants and not so much space in the yard. So according to your experience what is the minimum distance between the pepper plants?

Here's a sample of my leather craft hobby. Six years ago I hand sewed a doctors bag for my home visits. It served me well and suffered a lot. The leather has one crack I will have to fix and I planned to reinforce the bottom. So I took the bag apart completely. Unfortunately I didn't take a pic...