The Garden of Apologies

The Garden of Apologies The Garden of Apologies is a small pepper farm in Mapleton, Ontario, Canada. We relaunched in Mapleton in 2017 just after harvest time.

We started in 2014 with a single ghost pepper plant grown in a backyard garden in Burlington, ON. Over the next few seasons, we expanded to the point that we had 150 pepper plants all grown in 5 gallon pails arranged around a swimming pool. The kids wouldn't let me fill in the pool, so when they went to college, we moved north to Mapleton, ON. Our new home base is a renovated brick church built in

1888 on a 3/4 acre plot of land. For the 2022 grow season, we'll have 7000 square feet of landscape fabric down and we're aiming to double last year's crop and grow 2000 plants. We grow a wide variety of peppers from mild to extreme heat, and we specialize in the rare, strange or unusual. In 2022, we have 70+ pepper cultivars as well as Amish paste tomatoes, Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes, and Aunt Molly's ground cherries. Seedlings are available from late March through to June, and limited seed supplies are available year round.

The rain let up long enough for me to do another episode of Pepper School. Zebrange, Purple Jalapeno, Dragon's Toe and F...
08/25/2026

The rain let up long enough for me to do another episode of Pepper School. Zebrange, Purple Jalapeno, Dragon's Toe and Fatahaba F3 this time.

We're back with Barmy Farmer Erik and Meowry Pawvich at the Garden ...

Episode 5 of this year's Pepper School is ready! I ate a bunch of really great peppers and the really nasty Thai Rawit.I...
08/04/2026

Episode 5 of this year's Pepper School is ready! I ate a bunch of really great peppers and the really nasty Thai Rawit.
I finished the Sugar Rush Peach inside. What an amazing pepper!

Welcome back to Pepper School with Barmy Farmer Erik at the Garden ...

I took another stroll through the pepper field snacking along the way. Today, it was a red and green Serrano, then Oran...
08/01/2026

I took another stroll through the pepper field snacking along the way. Today, it was a red and green Serrano, then Orange Anaheim, Lemon Spice Jalapeno, Orange Spice Jalapeno, Yellow Biquinho and Chernobyl Jalapeno peppers.

We're back at the with another exciting round of peppers! Please jo...

Back at it today! This time, it's a 5 pack of peppers with Black Hungarian, Pumpkin Spice Jalapeno, Peppapeach Stripey, ...
07/28/2026

Back at it today! This time, it's a 5 pack of peppers with Black Hungarian, Pumpkin Spice Jalapeno, Peppapeach Stripey, Kandi Sri Lanka and Buena Mulata Cayenne.

Peppapeach Stripey was a standout pepper. Very tasty.

Welcome back to the Garden of Apologies in Mapleton, Ontario, Canad...

We're starting to see a bit of activity out in the pepper field, so I did another Pepper School video after dinner.Today...
07/28/2026

We're starting to see a bit of activity out in the pepper field, so I did another Pepper School video after dinner.
Today's peppers are Short Yellow Tabasco, Tricolour, Sugar Drop Lemon and Peach Aji Charapita.
Sugar Drop Lemon was particularly tasty.

This is the second episode from the third season of Pepper School a...

I've had some people asking me how the Garden of Apologies is doing this year, so Meowry Pawvich and I did a walk around...
07/09/2026

I've had some people asking me how the Garden of Apologies is doing this year, so Meowry Pawvich and I did a walk around this morning to take some pictures for an update.

The Reapers were the first plants in the ground this season, so they're looking really good, and the lane of Serranos are getting quite tall.

The Greenhouse of Extremer Regret has some shoulder height tomatillos for the upcoming verde sauce, and the Greenhouse of Extreme Regret is exploding with the potted peppers. It looks like Golden Nugget is the next ripe pepper for me to try. Stay tuned for a video soon.

The caged seed plants are also looking great, so the Pepper Guru fundamentals method is paying off so far.

As a bonus, they're finally paving the road today so the dust fog will clear and I can finish the irrigation lines.

We're still early in the season, but progress is being made.




It's been a while since I've had time to do this, but I'm looking at doing shorter form videos so I can add some content...
06/14/2026

It's been a while since I've had time to do this, but I'm looking at doing shorter form videos so I can add some content to the Pepper School YouTube channel.
Here's the first video for this season featuring Botan Kosho and Tibetan Lhasa peppers.

Welcome back to Pepper School at the Garden of Apologies in Lebanon...

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8583 Concession Road 3
Lebanon, ON
N4W 3G8

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