On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:55:09 -0400, E Gregory
wrote:

My experience with planting tomatos and peppers before the ground is
good and warm is that they seem to go into a dormant stage and actually
take longer to grow and produce fruit than plants put in the ground
after it has warmed up. I've done this several times, put some of my
tomatos and peppers in early, put plants started from same seeds at same
time in much later after the ground is warm, and the ones put in later
produce much earlier than the ones put in first. You may wonder why I'd
do it more than once. I like to experiment. Of course this is my
experience, yours certainly may be different.
Eileen

I have plenty of seedlings, so a few days ago I put in 3 tomatoes.
It'll be fun to try your experiment, Eileen, when I put in the rest,
later.
Here is another experiment. Summer of 2003 I had an extra Cuban
yellow pepper plant (longish, bell pepper sized, fleshy) and just kept
it in the pot in the house all year. Summer of 2004 I planted it in
the garden. It became a huge bush packed with leaves. Finally it
produced tiny, bright red peppers, size of almonds, with little flesh.
For the heck of it I kept seeds and now have five "Bizarro Peppers"
coming up. It is going to be fun to see what these plants produce.
Kira