The humble beginnings of our habanero plants.  These are but a few.  Meui started them in recycled tofu containers.  Needing warm soil to germinate presents a challenge in our cold climate (it was 24 degrees two morning ago!).  Our wonderful and most helpful neighbor Geba has a warm, propane fueled refrigerator that works nicely if you set your seeded containers on top.  We do have heating pads and we will use them when we seed many more peppers later on this week.  We use pre made organic potting soil from Foxfarm Soils.  To aid in germination and root growth we only use warm water to irrigate the seeds and the subsequent starts.

My cover crop seed has arrived from Peaceful Valley gardening supplies and my next few posts will highlight the cover cropping process and the germination of all the remaining peppers including the oh-so-desperately needed Golden Cayenne!