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Me and my wife received a copy of Jamie Oliver’s Jamie at Home, book for Christmas. Been looking through it and it looks really good; lots of recipes (as you’d expect) and lots of straight forward info for growing a lot of the ingredients.

Anyway, on page 258 he tells you how to grow Chillies and Peppers, so I’m going to give it a go.

I’m not sure whether I should use seeds from Chillies I’ve dried myself or if I should use seeds from fresh chillies.

Jamie’s book suggests you use seeds from a dried Chile but over at The Chileman I get the feeling you can use either; so, I’ve decided to try both.

(The third option is to buy seeds in from a supplier - but hey, I like a challenge!)

I’ve got one Chile in the airing cupboard drying out and another in the fridge. I’m told it should take about 2 weeks to dry the Chile out after which I’ll start planting.

We’ve all heard of the Carbon Foot Print, well now there’s another eco-related buzzword doing the rounds; the Food Print.

This article at TimesOnline discusses it in more detail but essentially your Food Print is the impression on the Earth’s resources that’s made in providing you with the food you eat in a year.

It’s not just the area of a farmers field you might take up though; we have to consider all the other resources used to get the food from the ground to the supermarket shelf - I’m talking packaging, conditioned storage and transportation (to name a few).

Time we all thought about using our own gardens for producing some of our veg.

Yes, Hello indeed. Seems rude to delete the automatic 1st post or mail, so I’m not going to; I’ll just personalise it a little. So, better click on Write > Post and get started.