Just add your relevant information to the site linked below and it will compute seed starting dates for you. Herbs can be started at anytime as long as you have the facilities and equipment to transplant them several times. It all depends on what size you want them to be for sale. Peppers require specific warm soil temps for transplanting so are usually started 10 weeks prior to 75 degree soil. Same for eggplant. Okra, squash, and melons are all warm weather crops and best direct seeded but only after the soil has warmed. Okra especially is a hot weather vegetable planted mid-summer. Dave Here is a link that might be useful: Grow Guide

I live about 100 miles north of San Diego and start my first seeds the last week of January and continue starting various varieties until early April. I sell tomato plants so usually start ten plants each of about 25 varieties. I only have enough room under my lights to start about 120 plants at a time so that's the reason for the spread out time period. San Diego has about the mildest weather in the U.S., some say almost perfect. It is warmer there in the winter than where I am, and cooler in the summer than where I am due to the ocean influence. So I would guess your friend could start seeds any time they wanted, or for sure when I do. I don't believe they ever get freezing temperatures there. And in the summer many people don't even use their air conditioners even if they have them. I know my daughters dorm room at UC San Diego didn't even have air conditioning.

It is time to start your tomato plants now. Peppers can wait some more depending on how soon we get our spring next year. Unless you are starting them in good soil the pepper should not be a problem now either they all do like warm weather. I did put out my plants last year right after the 14th of Feb.

I'm pissed! Someone sent me some Winter cold seeds that sprouted BIG TIME! Today was the coldest since 1950 something according to the news. Actually had temps. from the mid to low 30's. Looks like I might have lost 6 plants out of 40. NEVER is this cold here for more than a day or so. I'ts been below 40 at night for the last few days,close to a week until it warms up. Usually it isn't until Feb./March that we get cooler temps. Rain and cold nights are doing the root rot thing... Nothing froze though we had a couple actual 32 degree nights. On the good side,the mountains are getting a decent snow pack which MIGHT put a damper on our Drought. I guess 6 plants isn't much of a price to pay... I just hope none of the stuff I'm out of seeds for died. Most stuff I have backup starts for I think. OK,let the "I told ya so,shouldn't have bragged about S.Ca. weather" stuff get posted. LOL I desrerve it I guess. I still have about 100 starts indoors that haven't gone out yet. Several are podding up too. Almost as many seeds ready to put in soil that just sprouted. Hopefully I covered my butt...as far as still having replacements for what varieties I lost...I usually do OK. I just thought I'd let you cold winter guys know,when a dish of crow is served,I'll man up and eat it. Besides,all you guys that get a real winter need to kill some time yet. Posting suff about me semi bragging will give you something to do between shoveling that white stuff and putting on your longjohns until you can go in your basements to set up your grow stuff. Happy New years EVERYONE! Hope you get a decent season this year. I hear you guys mostly got crap weather last year so a lot of peoples gardens didn't produce no matter how much care they got. Maybe this year Ca. sucked up enough cold so you guys get a break this year. Hope you guys do great this year in everything not just your gardens. Happy New Year! This post was edited by smokemaster_2007 on Thu, Jan 1, 15 at 23:27