The Trusty Gardener-Starting Pepper Seeds
Looking Forward to Sweet and Hot Peppers
By now I’m sure that many of my fellow gardeners out there have started seeds. Spring has sprung. It’s gardening time. Well at least indoors. What have you started? Tomatoes? Peppers? Onions?
Every season I have my go-to vegetables that I start from seed. Always tomatoes. Tomatoes galore. Always Sweet Spanish onions. And sometimes peppers. Some years I just buy my pepper plants. Sometimes I experiment with starting my own. This year I decided to give it a try again.
Recently I planted pepper seeds, hot and sweet. Starting with the hot, this year I found an interesting hot pepper mix to try. 12 varieties. Plant and see what happens. To me this is fun, to see which ones you end up with. The big surprise.
Are you ready? For the long list? Well here goes. This mix contains Caloro, Cayenne Thick, Cayenne Purple, Cayenne Yellow, Firecracker, Hungarian Hot Wax, Jalapeno Mild, College 64, Red Cherry Large Hot, Serrano Tam, Small Red Cherry, and Pretty Purple.
These vary in hotness, the hottest being the Pretty Purple, Firecracker, and College 64. A large range of Scoville Units. Depending on how adventurous you want to be.
I planted these using the Jiffy© 10 mini-greenhouse, a favorite of mine for starting seeds…
