Free Guide for Kitchen Gardeners

Free Guide for Kitchen Gardeners

I haven’t looked at it yet, but it seems impossible to go wrong: Burpee is giving away an electronic version of “Garden Fresh” a guide to vegetable gardening. Click on over to the web site, fill in a short questionnaire, and you have instant access:

http://www.burpeehomegardens.com/BurpeeHomeGardens/GardeningGuide.aspx
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For all kinds of information you won’t find in Burpee’s guide, also visit Your Small Kitchen Garden and Your Home Kitchen Garden. On these blogs, you’ll find information about designing produce gardens, prepping soil, planting, increasing yield, increasing the quality of your homegrown produce, harvesting, preserving, and preparing food for your table.

Collect Seeds from Chili Peppers

Found a short video about collecting seeds from chili peppers for next year’s planting. Collecting seeds from fresh produce saves money and reduces your carbon footprint. This video confirms that collecting pepper seeds is as simple as it sounds… but I offer a caution: oils from the peppers will adhere to your fingers. Even after you wash your hands, the heat can build and your fingers might feel very hot. Worse: if you rub your eyes, your nose, or other sensitive body parts, they can really burn.

So, try to handle only the skin sides of peppers, and scrape out seeds using the edge of a knife. Or, get a box of latex or rubber gloves and wear some while you work.

Read more about saving seeds at http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/start-seeds-in-pots-for-your-small-kitchen-garden