From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   T wrote:   
   > Hi Songbird,   
   >   
   > I painstakingly collected seeds from my Anaheim (California)   
   > peppers last fall.  I followed collection your directions.   
   >   
   > It is getting close to planting.  I have to risk the   
   > freezes and the hatching earwigs. Too soon the get   
   > frostbite; too late they get eaten.   
   >   
   > How many seeds would you plant per hole?  I do five with zucchini, but   
   > how many for hot peppers?   
      
     i'm not a pepper expert.  :)  they are warm weather plants   
   so you can't plant them outside into cold ground or chances of   
   cold weather at all.   
      
     start them early in pots indoors in a place where the soil   
   will be kept warm.  that is about all i know about starting   
   them aside from the common sense that you don't want them   
   to be completely dried out.   
      
      
   > Would you add a bit of organic fertilizer, or wait for   
   > them to grow a bit first?   
      
     organic fertilizer is usually weak so perhaps ok but to   
   my habits i never fertilize anything until it is actively   
   growing unless i'm amending the garden for some specific   
   plants like tomatoes and onions which don't mind more   
   nutrients.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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