I’m having a hard time with peppers germinating….any ideas? Nice fresh seed from Botanical Interest, 2 varieties – a green and a yellow, California Wonder and Canary Bell to be exact. Only a 50% success rate and the few that have come up are crooked and very slow. Is this normal? Don’t always see your reply here, GJ, but I’ll try to remember to come back and check it out later today. =)
Thanks!!

last year i did a sweet potatoe and grew some slips –then later planted some the slips in the ground —didnt do so well –nor my reg. potatoes —i havent started any again yet this year -the motivation-i need to get started maybe ill have better luck second time around lol still need to try ginger –looks like this next week will be as good as any thnks gj for

Of all the seeds I started Beth, the peppers are taking the longest. I would think this may be common, since it is happening to you as well. From what I have read, tomato and pepper seeds in particular need more warmth than many other plants, and less water. Perhaps this is part of the problems we are seeing?

Cheryl I found I did better last year with planting whole sweet potatoes, rather than the homegrown slips. This year I am buying some new slips as well as using home started sweet potatoes, to see which does better. It may have been a weather thing.