Yesterday I started my crop of chile peppers. I have seven varieties of chile peppers currently sitting in some John Innes #1 seeding compost, in separate seed propagation chambers on an electric propagator. I’m growing:

• Anaheim
• Guajillo
• Jalapeno
• Numex Big Jim
• Serrano
• Tabasco
• Tepin

The Tabasco and Tepin chile seeds were a gift from my boss, who grew me a great crop of Scotch Bonnet Habanero chile peppers last summer, which I’m still using up. The Anaheim, Guajillo, Jalapeno and Serrano are specifically for my Mexican cooking. And lastly the Numex Big Jim seeds are for the Guinness World Record attempt competition over at TheChileMan.org.

Here’s a full detailed list of what I’m growing:

• http://www.thechileman.org/growing_list.php?list=1874,1517,3184,154,1318,3340,3312

And, if you know where to look, you can find me on the map:

• http://www.thechileman.org/worldmap.php

It should be a good year for growing chile peppers this year, if the predicted El Nino weather system comes to fruition, as chile peppers apparently love the sun. Fingers crossed. I still have to build the mini-greenhouse I have planned though. That’s assuming my seeds germinate. Someone pointed out today I might have planted too many. I planted about 15-20 seeds of 7 varieties. If they all germinate that’s about 100 seedlings. Each which may give 10-30 chile peppers depending on variety. That means a whole big harvest of chile peppers. Shocking, but potentially fantastic.

Only thing now is, that I’m completely impatient. Hurry up and grow already!