From: T@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 4/15/21 4:45 PM, songbird wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
      
   Thank you!   
      
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