{"id":2024,"date":"2012-02-14T18:56:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2012-02-14T18:56:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:56:21","slug":"even-though-its-going-to-be-twenty-below-tonight-im-starting-peppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/02\/14\/even-though-its-going-to-be-twenty-below-tonight-im-starting-peppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Even though it&#8217;s going to be twenty below tonight, I&#8217;m starting peppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Peppers-in-tray.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2025\" title=\"Peppers-in-tray\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Peppers-in-tray.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>February weather in northern Minnesota can be huge swings between thawing and sunny, to blustery and sub zero. Tonight and tomorrow night, they&#8217;re calling for the latter, dipping down to twenty below. Brrrrrrr. But I&#8217;m still starting to plant peppers, a few containers at a time, so I can set out nice stocky plants in our hoop house in May. I&#8217;m growing some of our old standbys such as Giant Marconi &#8212; which I couldn&#8217;t buy seed for this year &#8212; and trying some new ones too. As always. I start my seeds in peat pellets in deep recycled plastic containers. I water them well and stick the whole works in a plastic bag to hold in the moisture, then they go up on the bookshelf next to our living room stove so they&#8217;re cozy and plenty warm (75-80 degrees). They germinate very quickly and come up extremely strong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Jackie-peppers.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2026\" title=\"Jackie-peppers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Jackie-peppers.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have our teen-kitten, Mittens &#8220;the Monster,&#8221; so I&#8217;m going to have to protect the plants by putting them in our huge parrot cage. Unfortunately, our parrot was very old and passed on from a heart attack. If Mittens can get into that to destroy plants, I&#8217;ll be very surprised!<\/p>\n<p>Getting my fingers into warm soil and smelling the moist earth makes me itch to get gardening&#8230;.even if it is snowy and icy outdoors. And it makes winter pass so much faster too! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February weather in northern Minnesota can be huge swings between thawing and sunny, to blustery and sub zero. Tonight and tomorrow night, they&#8217;re calling for the latter, dipping down to twenty below. Brrrrrrr. But I&#8217;m still starting to plant peppers, a few containers at a time, so I can set out nice stocky plants in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}