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I'm hoping to get some landraces from Peru soon.

I use a digital pH tester. Grab some soil; some water of a known pH; mix the soil and water well and then test.

The words "crap" and "bunnings" are two I often associate with each other...

Hahaha, I was thinking something totally different when I saw "slowly building heat" I was thinking of how my other half can now eat habaneros and not even know it when she claims black pepper is too hot for her.

I like The Chilli Factory's rating system, Jolokia - 14/10

Just cover the ground with wire mesh, most digging things don't like to dig metal. You can lose the wire once they're established.

Yeah, I don't notice any advantage with topping peppers. I only remove some top coverage (mainly leaves) on my mature plants to get more light into the centre of the plant, which I find makes the plants grow like mad.

Old fashioned sun should take care of it, letting the surface dry out, that is, if you're in an area that gets useful sun.

You should be able to find a fair bit of info from the health department of your state. Here in QLD, Queensland Health has a lot on their website. Edit: (In QLD) it looks like you don't need any licences related to food if you're just doing powders, raw spices etc. You should only need an ABN...

Death - Bit sus tho. I can't really find any legislation which might apply to the sale of superhots for human consumption (Australia anyway). As far as I can tell, as long as it's disclosed that it's "spicy", then you should be OK in court (besides legal costs).

In a bag with a very ripe banana, ripens nice and quick.

Did the eWood cost you $1152 or did you find somewhere cheaper? We're looking to do the same but didn't know of a supplier until I read your thread.

Man that sucks, at least mine aren't that bad yet. Had pretty good success using pyrethrum, and moving the plants well away from any vegetation until they recovered.

We have lots of real snakes and owls, so I don't think that's scaring them away (does a good job on the human visitors tho). Most are only pythons so they're not too bad. Diatomite hey, might have to give it a go. I might even have to buy some predators for the bugs but they're expensive. I'll...

HAHA, classic. About as useful too :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Brush-turkey Whilst they have the same conservation status as humans, they are protected. Something about them being heritage listed.

Now that the rains have come and it's warming up in Queensland, I was wondering what everyone is doing to keep pests away. I am really struggling to keep the aphids, thrips, spider mites, birds, possums, bush turkeys and who knows what else, away from my plants. I'm going through pyrethrum...

I have one of these amazing tassie oak end-grain butcher blocks. The natural antibacterial properties of wood means I don't need multiple, knife dulling plastic boards. The end-grain means it's kind on my knives.

I prefer the simple old seed tray, good seed raising mix and controlled temps. Wasted too many seeds trying alternate methods.

Very jealous. I wish I had soil like that. I just have clay and big rocks.

Should spread the love and share some seeds with THP community :P