It was not too long, middle of april or so, before I was needing to stake some of my peppers still in their 3″ pots because they were getting so tall.  I could already see evidence of many of them having roots growing through the sides and bottom of the pots that they were in.

I was getting ancy.  Knowing it was not warm enough outside yet, and knowing I was not about to transplant to bigger pots I think I got ahead of my self.

the 5th of May came along and it was 80 deg. outside… I knew the reports were not calling for the warm weather to stick around and that it was going to get cold again, but I planted them anyway.  some of them had as much as a foot of root growing out the bottom of the pot and I knew I needed to get them in the ground.

it was a good day in the garden, I got a sunburn, and all the plants seemed to be happy.  It was the comming cold weather that would change their outlook.

Matt