Yeh and I’m going with your advice to grow extras as backups.
My Serrano peppers last year I got them in the ground a bit late in May. After the ‘mid hades’ days of summer here in DFW area finally in October got some small peppers on the Fall rebound. Going with an earlier start this season.
Ditto, here. I hardly got any peppers or tomatoes last year. I don’t like dealing with so many transplants (about 125 so far and more to come) but after the last 2-3 years being so hot and nothing producing, I don’t know what else to do. I still got late starts on the tomato seeds because I couldn’t get starting mix.
I’m going to pot up some squash for the first time because I NEVER get zukes and maybe get only 3-4 crook neck (0 last year) because of the vine bores. I found that June is SVB’s season in MN but couldn’t find info for TX though I’ve seen them all summer and into fall. By getting summer squash seeds started inside, hopefully they’ll get a head start. The summer squash are going to get the few peat pots I have because they don’t like to be transplanted. Winter squash is supposed to be a bit more resistant to bores (as is supposedly tatume and tromboncino which are on the wish list but need to use what I have) so they’ll have to be content with whatever transplant containers. This year’s squash is also getting moved outside the garden to less of the hot sun.