Having you called these nurseries: Lady Slipper Rare Plant Nursery: (770) 345-2998 ... (Woodstock) Perinneal Grace: (770) 569-5448 ... (Alpharetta) Scottsdale Farms: (770) 777-5875 ... (Alpharetta) Autumn Hill Nursery: (770) 777-5875 ... (Woodstock) Hastings Nature and Garden Center: (404) 869-7447 ... (Atlanta) Good luck!

Fred is right. There are many secrets to growing in greenhouses commercial style, however, you can do this organically and do it at home. I start my vegetables in February, in a cold frame. The trick: PINCH! Give them lots of light (days are getting longer in Feb), the problem with starting seeds in the straw is that light only gets in the top. I tend to put larger plants into that situation, that I've recently pinched back. I start my seeds in a plastic cold frame that was given to me. It's made out of traditional greenhouse plastic with the channeling in it. One could EASILY be made, and I might make a few of my own like this. They could even be sat on table tops or risers of some kind if needed to be more easily reached. http://apartmentharvest.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/cold-frame-wooden.jpg Actually you could totally make this from scrap except for the plastic. But no matter how you grow, PINCHING is the trick to thick, well branched peppers and tomatoes and basils (and many annuals grown from seed). Pinch back after the 3rd set of leaves, pinch that set off.

dustin - many of the supermarkets carry a variety of peppers that will grow, with irrigation, where you live. Hungarian hots, Banana peppers, even Habeneros can be found in most grocery stores. I grow a Thai Bird pepper that is extremely hot, yet tasty. If you'd like some send me an e-mail fawnridge at bellsouth dot net and I'll tell you where to send a SASE.

I bought my peppers and tomatoes from the local home depot and lowes - Bonnie plant brand. As far as heat, yes it's a problem. Last year we had that terrible heat wave, I barely kept my plants alive through it. Once the heat broke, I got lots of production, except the hard frost killed everything just before they were ripe. Had literally hundreds of orange/almost red cherry tomatoes fall on the ground to rot. Bad luck, is all. I'd recommend planting now, so they reach maturity by the time the cooler weather rolls in, and get the fruit set ASAP. Here is a link that might be useful: DFW Gardener