Chile Peppers - Seeds and Growing

Planting and growing chile peppers is both fun and rewarding because you get to eat "the fruits of your labor." Peppers are easy to grow if you get the right kind for your climate.

You can start peppers from seed, or you can buy seedlings from your local garden center in the spring. Buying seedlings can give you a good start on the growing season, but typically there are fewer choices of pepper varieties.

When you start from seeds, you should check the date on the packet to make sure the seeds are fresh. Purchasing seeds at a local garden center or by mail will give you the opportunity to try more different varieties.

You will need to consider the length of the growing season and the humidity where you live when choosing which peppers to grow. If you live in a cooler northern climate, you might choose to grow a Hungarian Wax Yellow pepper. In the desert southwest, jalapeno peppers grow well. In humid areas, try habaneros.

Seed catalogs come out in the middle of winter. Seed catalogs are an excellent source of information on each pepper variety. Take time to read about all the varieties and make plans for your spring garden.

Pepper plants come in many different sizes. Thai peppers are usually very small, while aji amarillo pepper plants grow to be quite tall.

Carefully follow the directions that come with your seedlings or seeds concerning how far apart to plant your peppers. Peppers need lots of sun and good air flow around them to be very healthy.

The heat of a chile pepper can be measured in Scoville Heat Units, which is a scale developed by a pharmacist named Wilber Scoville, in 1912. Testing was originally done by special people who tasted the pepper diluted with water, but testing is now done in a lab with high tech equipment.

Fun,, informative, and easy, this Chile Pepper Unit Study is great in the classroom or for homeschoolers. Available as an instant download through Payloadz, it requires no preparation on the part of the teacher the way some unit studies do. Worksheets are built in and easily reproduced. Written by yours truly [AKA Alma Friddle-Ponder or Natalie Schorr] for my own children when I was homeschooling them. Elementary level.

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