Every year there are two plants that worry me the most when I grow them from seeds - peppers and eggplants. They always seem to take the longest to grow. All of my other plants are popping up and putting on inches while not a bit of soil disturbance is seen over in the peppers and eggplants. It never fails that I start to worry - did I over water them? Under water them? Was it not warm enough? Too warm? Did I get bad seeds? Every day I worry about them until they finally start popping up.

This year it took a week longer for the peppers to begin popping up than the other plants. Needless to say I was so happy when I started seeing those little stems poke up through the dirt. I love bell peppers and I want a large variety of them in my garden.