Doris wrote:For the seedlings of peppers and aubergines I advise you all the same to find a solution indoors, as long as possible, because these plants are very sensitive to temperatures below 10 ° C. I'll give you my example at home last year, with a much milder climate than yours: I sowed my peppers, peppers and eggplants at the end of February in a warm place, they got off to a good start and are growing well.
After a while it got a little too folklore at home, I got used to them outside in transparent plastic boxes with lids. When there was no risk of frost, I left them outside. This has already calmed their development. I put them in the ground in May, at the beginning it went well, and then from mid-June, a long period of cool nights, one of the last was July 10 with only 4 ° C in the early morning. And the peppers, peppers and eggplants were very late, we ate very little, and late.
Well, cool nights so late are very rare at home, and it's difficult to predict that, on the other hand the nights outside, at the start of their growth, I could have done otherwise, and I would have had much more plants. strong and advanced to put in the ground. For eggplants, it did not really bother us, we are not big consumers, but for peppers and peppers I regretted. That said, in your strategies also take into account your preferences: if the peppers are not important for you, you can try in an outside frame, if it goes well it's good, if it breaks, it doesn't bother much; if these cultures are important to you, you take maximum security.
The tomatoes are less fragile for that, last year they underwent the same treatment as the peppers at home, and they reacted very well.
I sowed my eggplants late and my peppers even later
I have a mini-greenhouse in which I placed my eggplants, it heats up like an oven as soon as there is a ray of sunshine, I transplanted the first ones in individual cups and I transplanted, I left in a tray, then not wanting to throw away I transplanted a second series in a bucket, which I left in the mini-greenhouse, I had to transplant at the beginning of July, and indeed the second wave left in the mini greenhouse, at very hot caught up with the first one I had great feet, but too late, and of my first 4 feet bought from the horticulturalist 1 superb, 1 medium 1 nothing and 1 dead
for the peppers even more obvious, left in a mini-greenhouse, they were superb, twice as beautiful as those bought and transplanted at the end of May, except that starting from mid-July, it is a harvest that begins in September, therefore the season is very very short
So as Didier and Doris say the real exotics, you have to keep it warm for a very long time, that's why for me these will be in frames and more in the open air