[CH] RE: Soil (was re: chocolate habs)

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Scott wrote:
> Subject: RE: [CH] chocolate habs
>
> > I have also heard the Chocolate Habs are bitter. 
> > Crossed them off my to grow list accordingly.
> 
>  You might try a chocolate hab before you decide
> one way or the other.  I've never heard that choco
> habs were bitter.  More to the point, I've never
> tasted a bitter choco hab.  I've grown them myself
> since I never find them at the store/farmer's mkt.
> Maybe it's the soil in Wyandotte County... Is there
> such a concept of "terroire" for chiles?
> 
> Scott... growing choco habs this year... KCK

I'm not familiar with the term "terroire," but my father swears that sandy soil mixed with a compost made from pine needles, chicken manure, and powdered oyster shells is the magical elixir for nightshades suffering in flavor.



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