Most home gardeners, myself included, are so focused the culinary aspect of chile peppers that we forget about their ornamental qualities and how the mostly upright pods change colors over the entire summer and into the early fall.
Hot News
Happy Labor Day Weekend, everybody. This week’s Hot News covers grilling with lava, Toby Keith, and Chicago’s invasion of Texas. Here we go…
Four Great Recipe Articles to Fire Up Your Labor Day Grilling
There are a ton of great Labor Day grill recipe ideas on the SuperSite. Here’s a four course list of a few of them to take you from spicy appetizers into a barbecued dessert coma for the finish.
More Prizes for Scovie Winners
Columbine Label, one of our sponsors of the 2015 Scovie Awards, has announced that the two Grand Prize Winners will each receive 1,000 product labels (with winners’ art work), and all other Scovie winners will receive a $25 voucher to use towards their next order of labels from Columbine.
The Compost Pile Volunteers
From the dirt pile comes the HEAT!
Scovie Awards: 11 Days Left to Enter
The Scovie deadline of September 5th is now a tropical storm, but it’s building fast into hurricane strength. Don’t be left out–enter today.
Can Chiles Prevent Colon Cancer?
If your ego ever shoved a chile in your maw that was hotter than your mouth could handle, you learned something very fast: capsaicin loves to piss off pain receptors. Some of us have even learned this lesson twice; once on eating the chile, again when it says good bye on the way out. What you may not know is that capsaicin keeps up the shenanigans all the way through your digestive system, all the way from point A to B. That pain is the basis of research suggesting that chile peppers may prevent colon cancer.