Container Gardening with Hot Peppers – REWIND

Show Notes

 

What is the ideal plant for a small yard?

The ideal plant for someone wanting something ornamental – yet edible too?

And, just to complicate things, it has to be good for a garden where there are lots of squirrels.

Claus Nader found that hot peppers were that ideal plant.

Nader was gardening in a small yard that was frequented by marauding squirrels. While the squirrels sampled many of the things he grew, they didn’t eat his hot peppers.

So Nader made hot peppers the focus of his garden, growing them in pots on his balcony, deck, and dotted around his small yard.

Along with a passion for growing peppers in containers, Nader is also interested in unusual varieties and culinary uses and traditions. (His “Tummy Torch” sauce is magic on a piece of barbecued chicken.)

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Host Steven Biggs was recognized by Garden Making magazine as one of the “green gang” making a difference in Canadian horticulture. His home-garden experiments span driveway straw-bale gardens, a rooftop kitchen garden, fruit plantings, and an edible-themed front yard. He's a horticulturist, award-winning broadcaster and author, and former horticulture instructor with George Brown and Durham Colleges in Ontario, Canada.

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