Growing Chiles — Advice on selecting the right kinds of chiles to suit both your taste and your growing environment. Tricks to getting your chile seeds to germinate. Nurturing your seedlings to full grown plants. Tips on getting your plants to pollinate. Advice on how to maximize your chile harvest. How to deal with pests & insects when they show up (and they will...).
Harvesting & Preserving Chiles — You’ve got a bumper crop of chiles: now what? Knowing when the time is right to harvest your chile pods. How to make chile oils, vinegars, and powders. Advice on buying and using the right food dehydrator for drying your chiles.
Cooking with chiles — Think past just chili and salsa… We offer recommended recipes that use the chiles you’ve grown. Recipes for hot sauces, BBQ sauces, marinades, and other condiments. Tips on how to handle chiles when you’re cooking with them and more tips on how to clean up afterwards. Reviews on some chile related cookbooks.
What is urbanChile doing these days? — Who we are, where we've been, and where we're going. The latest comings and goings of the folks at urbanChiles. Anecdotes and miscellaneous tales from the Wonderful World of Chile Container Gardening and the Chile Culinary Arts.
