The weather agrees with the calendar this year. It is time to start replacing remaining cool season vegetable plants with fresh warm season vegetable plants. In fact, according to how the weather has been through February, the process could have begun quite some time ago. Frost, which is the limiting factor for warm season vegetables, is very unlikely this late, even if wintry rain resumes.
The past month of springy weather makes it easier to replace aging cool season vegetable plants with those that are now in season. Cool season vegetable plants obviously perform best through the cool weather of autumn and winter. They perform into spring where winters are cooler. Unseasonable warmth here accelerated their maturation. They deteriorate if not harvested soon enough.
Most of the the cool season vegetable plants produce vegetables that truly are vegetative. Most individual plants produce only once. For example, one cabbage plant produces only one cabbage. Conversely, most warm season vegetable plants actually produce fruit. Some produce many fruits through their season. Even some warm season vegetative leafy greens can produce repeatedly.
Tomato, pepper, eggplant pole beans and the various summer squash can get planted early to produce until they succumb to frost at the end of the season. Cucumber and pea do not produce for such an extensive season, so might be grown only in spring or the end of summer. Corn and root vegetables produce only once, so their seed get sown in multiple phases to prolong their season.
Corn, root vegetables and most greens grow best from seed sown directly into a garden. There is no need to start them inside here. Confinement can disfigure root vegetables anyway. Because so many individual plants are grown, it is impractical to purchase seedlings.
However, purchasing a few seedlings of tomato, pepper, zucchini and most other warm season vegetable plants is not as impractical. If only a few are desired, they are not much more expensive than seed. They are conducive to transplant, and will continue to produce through the season.
Tony Tomeo 
You have made me want to grow some peppers on the windowsill this year. My sweetheart and I are not always on the same page about whether something is a fruit or a vegetable.
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Peppers are of course fruits, but the larger sorts are not easy to grow on a windowsill. They really prefer to be out in a warm spot in the garden.
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Perhaps chilli peppers would work.
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Supposedly, some of the smaller and milder flavored chili are easier to grow in pots. Jalapeno supposedly does well potted, and it happens to have a rather intense flavor.
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Thanks for these tips.
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You are welcome, but I am no expert on the subject. I just remember that the bigger peppers want more warmth and weather. Spicier peppers like real weather too, but jalapenos seem to be pretty reliable regardless.
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Also, some of my friends grow small hot peppers that do quite well potted on a screened porch, no matter how much I remind them that peppers would not be happy there.
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It’s more rewarding to grow them from seed but I know we do not all have time
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Even here, some people like to start them early, to give them a head start. I think there are so many other vegetables that there is no need to rush anything, especially those that get such a long season anyway. I would rather rush the cool season vegetables, since they have even less time here.
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Any home grown veg are the best and extra tasty
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Yes, but in our climate, some of the cool season vegetables can be scarce.
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Of course
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Ironically, since I commented, I realized how late it is to be planting warm season vegetables! It was delayed because of work, and is only getting done now because we are unable to go to work, in the middle of MARCH!
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Given the virus home grown may be very welcome!
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Home grown is always welcome. It has been weird to not be able to do it at times.
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Thanks for the tips. We’ve just finished building our first ever veg patch – https://myhomefarm.co.uk/installing-the-gate-on-sloping-land – and we’re excited to get growing, harvesting and eating our produce.
We’re complete newbies, so we’re reading avariciously to limit silly mistakes in our first season.
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This particular article is very brief, since it is from a gardening column that gets very limited space. I am sorry that it does not elaborate.
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(I would recommend my gardening column, but it is the exact same as you see here on Mondays and Tuesdays. [It gets split into two parts for the blog.]) If you would like to see the two parts intact anyway, it is easiest to find at ‘Gardening with Tony’ at canyon-news.com. I recommend the Canyon News rather than the other newspapers because it is easiest to navigate.
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