Sometimes it’s best to plant straight to the ground-stuff can acclimate gradually that way. It’s part of the winter sown method to plant seeds in the winter, put them outdoors and let it go. Stuff tends to come up when it’s time.
Yeah, they hit about 2 inches - a couple-three late bloomers - stayed stuck for 6-8 weeks - Sun killed them.
I’m gonna try a few seeds of Beefsteak (80d) that I got tonight - see if I can get 3-5 plants going. The 3x6ft spot is going to be mostly peppers. I must have 150 pepper plants (young) plus some California Wonder Green (about 15 or so).
I was looking for Bush Early Girl seeds but didn’t find them at WM. So I went with the Beefsteak. If the Roma comes up, I’ll have 3-4 varieties of tomato. Squash seeds came up - have nice broad leaves - like 50-cent pieces. I’ve got a few more seeds in reserve. I’m gonna have trouble thinning all this out.
Put radish seeds in, gonna start chives, got some small pepper plant (forgot what), got 3 Sweet Basil going, got 5 Rosemary (SB and Rose WM plants), got Sweet Snacking Pepper going (about 10-15 plants), Jalapeno plants (about 6-10).
Most all that is looking strong. Don’t know if any carrots are surviving (a few thin plants). Plus I do have some other tomato from the grocery store - must have 20 sprung up and looking healthy (NOT going to put them in the Sun). Not much at first, anyways. Bought those tomatoes at Sprout’s. Maybe 3-5 Roma lasting - maybe 3.
And about another 3 dozen pepper plant seedlings - hey the seeds were free outta the peppers. I’ll bet I have 500+ seeds in reserve.
The branch I broke on my Bush Early Girl plant (oops) I taped up with black electrical tape (that’s how a guy fixes things). Branch is still green and going after a couple weeks of my doctoring. And the girl is producing tomatoes like crazy. Most are small, but about 3 are well on their way - the other 20 are trying to play catch up.