Blog entries

Official Opening of new Farm Shop and Cafe - 21st September 2011

Steve Waters — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:32:39 +0100

South Devon Chilli Farm Press Release, 5th September 2011.

South Devon Chilli Farm are holding the official opening of their new chilli-themed Farm Shop and Café on the 21st of September, 2011 (from 9.00am to 10.30am). David Fitzgerald from BBC Radio Devon will be in attendance to cut the ribbon.

The directors of South Devon Chilli Farm, Jason Nickels and Steve Waters, are very pleased to announce the official opening of the new building on the farm: “The vi...

New Products - Ready-to-Go Chopped Chilli

Steve Waters — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:19:53 +0100

This product saves time when you need a fresh-chilli taste on your nachos or pizza - also great just stirred into a cooking meal. Medium heat Jalapeno chillies grown on our farm preserved in wine vinegar.

Product page here.

Chilli Record goes again - where will it end?

Steve Waters — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:48:53 +0100

The hottest-chilli crown has changed hands again - we're up to 1.5M Scoville units now.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1643932.php/Taiwan-man-claims-to-have-grown-world-s-hottest-chilli

It would be interesting to know how many of these recent varieties are stable, i.e. not hybrids that will revert and need the F1 treatment each year (provided the parent plants are known).

Wed - June 8th update - some pictures, b...

Extreme Chilli Chocolate

Steve Waters — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:46:15 +0100

Tweet

Extreme Chilli Chocolate - coming very soon.

We have been working to perfect the Bhut Jolokia chilli chocolate and have had a lot of very good feedback from the tasters we enrolled via twitter (www.twitter.sdcf.co.uk). Thank you to everyone that helped and all the supportive comments. We made the first 50kg batch this week and we are now just waiting for the two labels we need to package the product.

The Extreme range products all carry the skull-and-crossbones...

SDCF 2011 Season on Flickr

Steve Waters — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:16:49 +0100

We have just opened a Flickr account to share pictures of the 2011 season at the South Devon Chilli Farm: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37056247@N08

We'll add many more photos here as the season progresses.

We are also posting them on twitter via http://twitter.com/#!/SDCF_CO_UK

Kind Regards, Steve

Last day for May competitions

Steve Waters — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:47:00 +0100

Last chance for the two competitions we've been running in May:

1/ www.twitter.sdcf.co.uk - just follow us and tweet/reply #sdcfMay11 to enter - last day today.

2/ Our Forum Competition A few simple questions to enter - last day today.

Good luck.

Events this summer.

Steve Waters — Mon, 30 May 2011 19:22:36 +0100

I hope everyone had a great time at the Dartington Food Fair. What a great event. If you missed it, here's the link for next year: http://www.dartington.org/food-fair

Other events this year:

27th July Yealmpton Show: http://www.yealmptonshow.com/ Love the count-down on this page!

31st of July Totnes Show: http://www.totnesshow.com/

19th-21st August Plymouth Flavour Fest http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/flavourfest

More ...

Growing Chillies from seed - Part 3

Steve Waters — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:33:29 +0100

Growing Chillies from seed - part 3

Potting-on, flowering and fruiting.

I hope your seedlings have done well this year - you may be thinking about potting-on about now, so here's a few tips we have found helpful.

Re-potting. Once your seedlings have out-grown their initial pots, they will need re-potting. Chilli plants benefit from being po...

Growing Chillies from seed - part 2

Steve Waters — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:13:13 +0100

Growing Chillies from Seed: Part 2

Pricking-out

Once you have some seedlings to pot-on (see picture below), it is time to separate them and pot them in individual pots. We tend to pot-on gradually, so we use 3” pots first. Using very loose seedling compost will help this stage. We like to use vermiculite on the surface and perlite in the mix.

chilli seedlings We have been working with our friends at THE SEED Co. on a Chilli Oil using their wonderfully flavoursome cold pressed Rapeseed Oil. I have tried a few Rapeseed oils now, and the one from THE SEED Co. is the best I have found for flavour. Find our Rapeseed Chilli Oil in our online shop from today. Some good bread and a small bowl of this oil is a great start to a meal.

Getting Ready for 2010

Administrator — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Growing Chillies From Seed. If you are thinking of having a go at growing chillies next year, here is a shopping list to get you off to a flying start.

Shopping List. A heated propagator or warming mat is a valuable tool for germinating chilli seeds - they like it hot! At the farm, we sow the seeds thickly in a soil-based seed compost and place the pots in heated propagators - we expect to see an erruption of shoots between 6 and 10 days later - some do take longer. A Jonh Innes s...

Drying Chillies - a rough guide.

Administrator — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

What do I do with all these chillies? This is the time of year when you may be wondering what to do with bushes and bushes of chillies: eat them all, give them away/sell them, preserve them (vinegar and/or sugar), freeze or dry them. This entry is about drying them - dried chillies are really marvelous for all sorts of reasons.

Flavour and smell: A chilli can conjure flavours from thin air when they are dried. The most common flavour that develops from a 'large red' chilli is that of r...

Peanut Butter & Chilli Jelly – PB&J

Administrator — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Peanut butter that doesn’t glue your mouth shut: Mix some jelly (I used our chilli jelly of course) with peanut butter – I went for about 3-parts peanut butter to 1-part chilli jelly - mix together well with a fork, and spread on some toast or in a sandwich.

The PB&J combination is big in the USA or course – on Wikipedia, a 2002 survey is mentioned which claims that the average American will have eaten 1,500 PB&J sandwiches before graduating from high school &...