peppers!

Just when I began to wonder if they would ever sprout, the Bell Peppers began to poke out of the soil. It had been warm for a few days so we'd turned off the furnace, and then the weather got colder again- not enough that I felt like turning the heat back on, but too cold for seedlings. So I warmed the seed trays by sticking them in the oven! Turned on the lowest heat, then shut it off and put them inside for a few hours. After that stuck them under lamps. I don't know if it was the heat that did the trick, or they were ready to sprout anyway, but the very next morning saw the green elbows of bent stems pushing up out of the soil. 12 days after planting.