Most tomato helmet heads extract themselves in a few days if you just leave them alone. Peppers are another story. Lots of the time I have to get the tweezers out and help the peppers.
You get less helmet heads by planting deeper, as the friction of coming through the soil pull off the seed coat. But you also must wait longer for seeds to sprout and sometimes get less germination too. It's a trade off.
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Scott
AKA The Redbaron
"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system."
Bill Mollison
co-founder of permaculture
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