I'm only growing 4 peppers at the moment. I might pick up more plants next month because I am not having any luck with pepper seeds. Might need to try a different method, but I don't know of any others than sticking them in seed starting medium. Although I've also tried potting mix on the bottom and seed starting mix on the top. Fail every time, but I can get other seeds to grow, so I really need to learn this eventually. The perfectionist in me can't take so many failures, especially with my FOOD. (Not counting the burnt pot of beans and slightly overbaked muffins last night.)
Two sweet peppers are a snacking pepper - those little ones I love for salads. And yellow peppers. I don't ever buy or grow regular green bell peppers because they have a bitterness I don't like. Probably should try some other varieties before fully committing to disliking them. I do have room in my garden for a few more plants, or seeds.
With fierce determination I am stating, I WILL learn to make rellenos this year. It is one of my favorite foods and I've never made them. I got a Anaheim pepper plant and a Sorrano pepper plant just yesterday when I had to go to the pharmacy and the car decided we needed to go to Walmart. So the car made me do it. Honest. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
I will still keep trying to grow peppers from seed because I need more than the few plants I have will produce. Maybe having older plants to tell the scared seeds what to do will help. My seeds always seem to do better with other like plants, just as I usually have better luck growing more than one plant. My theory has no basis in fact, but I'm sticking to it because it makes me feel better and my plants really do grow well, even if it is just coincidence. Shhhh. Don't tell the plants.
Maybe I should trade some of my seeds for some other varieties. Having another mild pepper would make the roommate happy. I am bored with jalepenos but wouldn't mind a couple more hot peppers. I hope the wind dies down enough this afternoon to plant my new peppers. It was already dark by the time I returned home with them last night. So, I spent a little time explaining to them what will happen while tucking them in for their night in the living room. Waiting for it to warm up to introduce them to the gang and tucking them into their new home.
