>>Today I am gonna show you how to grow Korean chili peppers.

Now, these are actually started in the greenhouse with the seed and then when they're about this tall seedlings in about mid April to at the end of April, you take it out, you plant it in your garden.

They are prolific producers and they're absolutely delicious.

Now, when they're green, I use it to pickle, I saute them, I actually make it into pepper chips.

And also you can grill nice piece of steak and peppers grilled, you're gonna be in heaven.

When they're red, you harvest them.

And what I do is I sun dry them basically using a mat that's made out of straw.

And that way, the air circulates from the bottom to top and, of course sun at the top.

Drying.

Now, sun drying to me is what I grew up with.

My grandmother, when I was growing up in Korea, she would harvest these hand harvested, of course everything is grown naturally.

She sun dries them and she takes out the stem and cut the pepper in half and take all the seeds out and she'll take them to water mill in Korea.

And I used to just absolutely love it.

It's because the water mill is just to me, it is just so beautiful and it's natural.

So, my grandmother would take it there and milk them and then bring it home and she keeps them for the wintertime and also to make him chew with.

Now when they're green, they're very, very crunchy and some are kind of sweet and mild, some are very spicy.

But anyway, they're absolutely wonderful.

Now, when they're the small and if it gets really hot quickly, what happens is that it could start to bloom.

Now, what I need you to do is take that bloom off the plant and go ahead and discard that.

If you leave it on there, what it does, it'll stunt the growth of the actual plant.

So, it's not gonna get as big is because all that energy goes to making that pepper.

Now, this will get up to about three to four feet tall and you'll have tons of Korean chili peppers.

I grind these in a coffee grinder.

I don't have the water mill.

And also, you can grind and grind it to very fine powder and you can make Gochujang, which is a Korean chili paste.

Very, very tasty.

But anyway, I hope you'll be able to go and grow your own Korean chili peppers and sun dry them, experiment and grind them, coffee grinder works for me.

Try making kimchi or any other dishes.

I just absolutely love cooking with Korean chili peppers.