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Heat!  Karl Foord  Photo 1: Sweet peppers  Karl Foord, UMN
Extension Educator  I traveled to Bagley, Minnesota to Ter-Lee
Gardens, the home and farm of Terry and Loralee Nennich. Ter-Lee
Gardens offers Pick-Your-Own strawberries at the farm and almost
every vegetable that you can think of, most of which is marketed
at the Bemidji Area Farmers' Market. I had heard that Loralee
was growing more than 50 varieties of peppers and was intrigued.
Terry is a colleague of mine and he persuaded Loralee to give me
a tour of the two high tunnels where she was growing her
peppers. You can see the peppers she showed me on photos 1 and
2.  Karl Foord  Photo 2: Hot peppers  Most pepper cultivars come
from the species Capsicum annuum, whose center of origin is
Mexico. The Habanero and Tabasco peppers come from C. chinense
and C. frutescens, respectively. The center of origin for these
species is the A