Pepper seedlings in our #petalumademogarden nursery. We usually plant tomatoes in all of our clients' gardens first, then go around and plant peppers, chiles, eggplants, cucumbers, squash, and melons. Tomatoes can handle our cold spring nights better than all the other summer vegetables. Peppers, chiles, and other summer vegetables languish in the cold. They just sit there and hardly grow at all. If planted too early, snails or slugs eat the new growth, deforming the plants. This doesn't happen with tomatoes. Once the nights are warmer, peppers and chiles grow faster than the pests can eat and it isn't a problem anymore. So we start our peppers and chiles later, and leave them in the nursery longer. These will be ready to plant in a week or two. • • • To find out how we start our tomato, pepper, and eggplant seedlings, click the link in my bio, then this photo to go to http://www.grow-it-organically.com/starting-tomatoes-from-seed.html.
















