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Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 65. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the morning.

Peas are going in the ground this morning. Been bringing them out for a few hours a day to harden them off. Lost two komatsuma seedlings. The mix in those two cells just doesn't suck up or retain water. Must be mostly coir fibers or something. I did notice some chunks of nothing but fiber in the mix and tried to crumble and mix in with the rest. Guess I'll just pull them out from now on.

I have a 7 foot gate I made that I'm not using so I stuck two t-posts in the ground and wired the gate to it. Both type of peas are bush, 2-3 foot tall but I still like having something for them to cling to so they don't get knocked down in a heavy rain with gusty wind.

Planting the peas out will open up 30 cells for something else. Maters are next in line but I don't need 30 so I'll do some peppers too since those are next in line. Johnny's seed starting date calculator gave me Mar 18th - Apr 8th for maters and Mar 25th for peppers. Thought it was weird that they didn't give a date range for peppers. Oh well, three days early on maters and ten on peppers. Calculator gave me transplanting out date of May 13-20th for maters and May 20th for peppers. Will play that by ear depending on weather.

Started out with a piece of 3/4" PVC and just shoving it into the ground, wiggling to make the hole tapered like the seed tray cell and using smaller PVC to pop soil plug out but I was having to push hard and worried about soil compaction.

So I swapped to an auger bit in the cordless drill and then followed with the 3/4" PVC wiggle which also pulled out any soil that fell in the soil and didn't require pushing down hard on the PVC. Worked out well and was less than 30 seconds per seedling.

Had three seedlings that didn't look too hot so I ended up with 27 planted with a little more than half being Lincoln and the rest Sugar(snap) Daddy. Most likely, all will be eaten straight off the vine. 30 mater/pepper seeds will go in the empty cells tonight.