Pepper Seeds Hit the Dirt Today!

[UserNotFound]

Going in today:

Prairie Spice
Jalapeño
Hinkelhatz
Rooster Spur

The "superhots" in another week...

Carolina Reaper
Magnum
Red Habanero
Purple Ghost
NOT Purple Ghost
Purple Fatalii
Scotch Bonnet
Trinidad Scorpion

I'm in Mississippi.

[MiHale]

1. Sounds yummy....

We’re the opposite ’M’ state way up north…Michigan…gotta wait a while yet to start pepper seeds.

[rampartd]

2. i'm in new orleans, user, and am thinking similarly

i do a few jalapenos and cayennes

but mostly thinking of early peas and a few tomato vines

my coliflower and collards survived the snow and should be good this week.

[niyad]

3. Sighhhhhhh. 15 degrees, 4 inches of snow, not even time yet to start

them indoors.

Have you seen some of the truly hot ones at Baker Creek?

[NJCher]

4. that's an interesting list

I grow green peppers and hope I get some red from them, as well as yellow and orange. Bell peppers.

I only grow one hot pepper, though. That's enough for me for the whole summer!

What do you do with all those hot peppers? Do you make hot sauce?

[Retrograde]

5. Indoor or outdoor dirt?

I'll be starting some seeds indoors south of San Francisco, since we'll be getting temperatures down to the high 30s this month. OTOH, I have 3 plants that have overwintered, although they're small.

[Emile]

6. Starting ours today. (INDIANA) We save seeds from Aldi's sweet peppers and

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cut clear plastic milk jugs in half, fill one end with potting soil and plant seeds. Tape the other end back on and it creates a small greenhouse. We set them outside alongside the warmest side of the house and check every once in awhile to see if they need water. We use this method on store bought seeds too.

[NJCher]

7. used to do that

known as winter sowing. I recall it gave me the biggest surprises. Some seeds I thought would never come up eventually did. It's a great way to have a hardy seedling.