I grow pole beans, but not on poles. Mine climb up a six-foot-tall chainlink fence and the foliage is dense, making it difficult to see the beans I’m trying to pick. But I’m not picking the actual beans, but rather the pods that contain the seeds of the bean plant. The seeds are also called beans, but only in their … Read More
Byproducts from Chile Pepper Processing Make Cows Happy
Supplementing livestock diets with chile peppers could reduce traditional anti-inflammatory drug use and increase the market for culled chile peppers by $10 million annually, a win-win situation for the chile pepper and livestock industries.
Preparing the 2016 Pepper Garden: Selecting Seeds
Catalogs are also the most dependable source of new varieties…
Did We Humans Coevolve with Chile Peppers and Marijuana?
Humans have receptors that detect the presence of both capsaicin and THC and send those signals to the brain via the nervous system
Free Birdseed (If There’s a Trumpet Vine in Your Neighborhood)
Hummingbirds pollinate these flowers with their long tongues, and soon the seed pods start forming…