Hot Peppers

Penner Pumpkins sells 20 varieties of hot peppers and 2 ornamental varieties. Pots are 3.3″ by 3.3″, contain 1 plant and range from $2.75-$3.50 each. For more information. Peppers Information Scoville Heat Units Non-hot Jalapeno Perfect for stuffing, no heat. Jalapeno flavor 0 Padron 1 in 20 is hot, green, 2 “ long. 500-2500 Garden…

How to Grow Peppers

There is so many uses for peppers: stuff them, stir fry them, eat them raw, make a dish so hot you won’t have taste buds left, and so much more. Peppers are a rather challenging crop to grow in Manitoba because peppers don’t like it cold and they don’t like it hot. If your up…

Veggie Roll

Found this recipe in an old Mennonite cookbook. A perfect snack or have it for faspa. Growing up faspa was for Sunday supper and including buns, jam, pickles, cheese, and deli meat. Instead of buns, have some veggie rolls. Ingredients: Tbsp spreadable Cream Cheese 1 Tbsp ranch dressing (either powder form or liquid) 1 ten…

Deep Fried Garden Vegetables

You can basically deep fry any vegetables.  Put a little bit of batter on them and throw them in a fryer.  Frying stuff is so much safer than in by gone years as you can get fryers that you can plug in and you don’t have to heat up oil on the stove, you still…

Parsnips, Peas, and Peppers

 I love growing hot peppers, but I don’t like eating hot peppers!  The hottest pepper is the Carolina Reaper at 1.5-2.2 million scoville units.  Pepper spray has 5.3 million scoville units.  When looking at the scoville scale you’ll find that peppers tend to vary in their heat units.  My theory is because of the ripeness…