My problem I have with starting the peppers early is I have no place to go with them. Last year it got so cold after I put them outside, nights down to 40, and before they went in the ground the peppers and eggplants got sickly and started dropping leaves. The peppers lost about three leaves from each plant middle; I planted deeply but they still looked pretty sad. They produced at the normal time, but I have to think a moderated/heated greenhouse would allow them to fair better during that in between period and maybe bump the production or make it earlier. I've been thinking maybe this is the year for one of those $200 HF greenhouses. It would be a big investment in space, though, for my back yard.
I think some years it wouldn't matter, but a warm, pleasant spring combined with a plant with a head start might combine for sooner production.
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