What's in your garden?

[cletus1]

I have at least a couple hundred pepper seeds planted in trays. I also planted a tray of 48 long eggplants. I hope to plant a few more trays today. So, if most of the plants come up, I'll have plenty of extra plants. I will still buy tomatoes and bell peppers from green leaf because I am saving some room in my greenhouse for flowers.

In all seriousness, I haven't had a garden in over 20 years. I want to plant some Jalepenos and Habeneros that I bought seeds for. Walk me through this cleters. I need to get them started soon.

Sometimes its easier to just buy starts in May, especially if you are not planting a lot. Seed starter planting mix, seed trays and inserts are not too expensive, but it all adds up. However, since you have seeds you will now need to get a seed starter plant mix and some 4 cell inserts or just some 4 inch pots. All available at the Grange or Walmart.

All you do with pepper seeds is to plant 1 or 2 seeds a quarter inch deep in each cell and water them in. Keep the soil moist, not wet for 12 days and see what pops up. If you don't have a light, you can get a seed tray with a clear humidity dome and put them on a table very close to a window. If both seeds in a cell sprout, cut one of them off in around 10 days or so. Peppers never get too big to outgrow their containers in my experience, so you can plant them directly outside in late May or when the danger of frost is over. The starter mix typically has everything in it, so you don't need to fertilize, but you can apply a half strength solution after a month of growth.

Alrighty then. I have 36 Jalepeno and 36 Habeneros in the starter kit. We'll see if they take. Thanks for the advise.

So some of them have sprouted in the last couple days. Do I take the lid off the "greenhouse" now? I have it in a north/east garden bay window.

Yeah you can take the lid off, especially when the sun makes it too hot inside the dome. You will see condensation on the clear lid when it gets warm. I would just take the lid off.

The average last frost day is May 12th. So you are going to grow them indoors for around 6 more weeks.