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Gardening

Aerows

(39,961 posts) Sun Mar 23, 2014, 07:12 PM Mar 2014

I got some of the peat cups and started my plants! [View all]

I have started the following - Heirloom Tabasco Peppers, Beefsteak Tomatoes and Brandywine Tomatoes.

I'm probably going to mother hen them to death, but I'd REALLY like for them to be successful. Right now they are inside in the little compartments. I also have lettuce to put out, too.

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I got some of the peat cups and started my plants! [View all] Aerows Mar 2014 OP

You won't mother hen them to death. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #1

I haven't put the lettuce out yet Aerows Mar 2014 #2

Lettuce will do fine with those temps. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #3

Oh! I thought it needed to be warmer Aerows Mar 2014 #4

I read online that butter lettuce might just do better in buckets Aerows Mar 2014 #5

I have not grown butter lettuce, so don't know. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #6

See, I'm in a climate that is about like Houston, but more humid Aerows Mar 2014 #7

But more humid?????? Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #8

I'm already growing alfalfa sprouts inside Aerows Mar 2014 #9

I'm so thrilled I could just about burst Aerows Apr 2014 #10