Wow, planting peppers in the middle of March.
It is recommended that we wait until late April here to plant pepper transplants out. I'm in zone 8A but 7B is very near us to the north. (Zones seem to not mean much this year.) Living 10 miles from where I was born, I've seen frosts as late as May 2, and that was just a few years ago.
I did plant extra pepper plants that are now in the party cup stage. They are much bigger and vigorous than what you would buy as transplants already. The pepper plants look remarkable and I want to get them out ASAP, but I also remember the saying, "Once bitten, twice shy." But then again, there is, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." The Definition is you can't expect to achieve anything if you never take any risks.
That is near a month away to plant out a month early. Sometimes, as a gardener, you can't help but think @#$%^&* - what to do? For me, that's part of the fun of it.
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