1) I'd buy plants, even though you may have no frost till mid-October, the Sep and Oct sun is weaker and just doesn't push out fruit like the Jul-Aug sun.
2) I'd still germinate and grow out seedlings now for practice even if they never make it to the garden and grow more all winter using different mixes and ferts till I was comfortable and confident in my program. (This is exactly what I did when I came to T'ville and got the bug. I had seedlings growing nearly continuous for 2 years)
3) My best advice, clean compost-free high porosity media, bottom watered, with a easily measured and administered fertilizer (like FloraNova Grow) applied from the first set of true leaves. (peat60/perlite40,or something like Pro-MixHP is excellent and what's used by countless commercial growers for both a starter and container mix)
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