Well, preparations are being made for the 2007 version of Joe & Linda’s chile pepper garden. We’ve finally picked out our hallowed dozen peppers, and are awaiting the mid-May shipping date to get those here to start them on their journey of growth. For all to view, here are the peppers we will grow this year. Since we have a dozen, we will name this year’s peppers from the dwarves from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. We simply aren’t patient enough, or have the time to mess with, germinating peppers from seed. That’s why you should get some pepper plants from Chileplants.com. More about that later….

Please Note: All pictures, except the Bhut Jolokia, are copyrighted and reprinted with permission from Chileplants.com. The Bhut Jolokia picture is courtesy of the Wikipedia, and the exact listing can be found HERE.

It will be the latest craze this year and we couldn’t resist…but we ordered a pair of Bhut Jolokia plants. Not sure if we’ll do a hot sauce or what with them, but this is what Janie from Chileplants.com told us about them:

Those Bhut Jolokia are indeed going to be hot. One of the guys who seeds for us had a “burn spot” on his hand after sowing them…for 2 days! Couldn’t see anything but it really bothered him. Meanwhile he has sown every other variety for years without an issue. So watch out!

Keep those away from pets and kids, folks! Can’t wait to see how these grow.

Described as more disease resistant than some of the other species of Cayenne peppers, we chose these as our first foray into growing cayennes. In plants we’ve seen before, they’re usually fairly prolific, so we hope to have a bunch this year. And yes, we’ll have two of these as well.

This is a Capsicum chinense that rated towards the top of the heat scale, these just looked so unique that we had to order some. We expect these to rival the chocolate habanero for sheer heat potential. With two of these, we’ll have no shortage of capsaicin at our house.

The Sandia is a medium-heat large chile pepper in the same family as the New Mexican/Anaheim pepper. Besides making some bitchin’ chile rellenos, these will likely end up in some salsa that we make. This one will also be new for us to grow this year, and yes we’ll have two of them.

Our recent tasting of The Legacy hot sauce gave us a yen for some Lemon Drop peppers, so we picked up two of these from the Capsicum baccatum family. We’ve grown these once before with good success.

Our last, but not least, choice was the Rocoto Red from Capsicum frutescens. A neat pepper because they have black seeds and can tolerate cooler temps than most peppers, we wanted to grow these last year but couldn’t get any. Like the rest, we got two of these also.

Another shameless plug for Chileplants.com, folks. There simply isn’t a better resource on the web if you want chile plants rather than seeds. Some people like growing them from seed, but not us! The selection is amazing and the prices are decent as well. Tell Janie that Joe & Linda referred you!!

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