For those of you in Northern Ohio that didn’t grow anything this year should check out Rock’s Farm and Garden (located at 10935 Route 306, Kirkland, Ohio 44026) every Saturday and Sunday from 10AM to 5PM. Kevin Malon is once again having his open fields for the pepper section of the farm (you can read [...]

Well, it’s that time of year again for chili-heads (well, those of us in certain climates that is). It’s time to start planting seeds and ordering pepper plants for this year’s crop. I’ve just been told that Kevin, who runs the pepper section at Rock’s Farm and Garden (I’ve done a few write ups on [...]

A little bit ago I visited Kevin Malon’s field of peppers at Rock’s Farm and Garden (located at 10935 Route 306, Kirkland, Ohio 44026, did you know the 90 East has an exit for Route 306? I sure as heck didn’t). I promised to have an update for when his Open Fields would be and [...]

It was a dark and stormy night…well, not really. I’ve just always wanted to start something out like that. Actually, it was a hot, bright, and sunny day and I was driving out to a local farm in Kirkland, Ohio. After a 45 minute drive with the A/C on full blast I had arrived at [...]

This year’s growing season is truly off and running, and we couldn’t be more pleased with how the container garden is coming along with their growth. This wasn’t without a few hiccups, though. We’ve had a couple of casualties, which we hadn’t had in years past. As has been our tradition, we [...]

It’s been a little bit since my last installment so I thought I might update you all with a new article.

Well, our shipment of pepper plants finally arrived today from Cross Country Nurseries. For several years now, we’ve made the decision to grow our peppers in containers. Part of that stems from not having a decent garden space to grow them in actual soil in the ground. For one thing, the soil [...]

Well, I admit, I slacked off this week on the reviews, sorry folks. Now I didn’t slack of on sampling sauces, just writing. Another thing I didn’t slack off on though was prepping this years crop!

Mark McMullan has been a supporter of this blog for quite some time, and we use his pepper database often, particularly around growing season when we need information about different kinds of chile peppers. Mark’s site, thechileman.org, is an amazing compilation of online information. Check out the latest update from Mark about his [...]

One of our very first contributors to this blog has made a triumphant return to the blogosphere…if only with his homemade hot sauces. Chuk Hell…musician, baker, rock star-in-training, raconteur, and hot sauce maker extraordinaire has sent us a tetralogy of unique homemade sauces to delight our palates and torture our taste buds. To [...]