My pepper packet says to start inside 8 to 10 weeks before you transplant, which should be 2 to 4 weeks after your last frost date. Peppers like it hot. I haven’t tried sprouting them yet this year, but it’s about time too. I think tomatoes can start a little earlier indoors. (Threw away my empty tomato packet.)
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It could be a couple of months here, depending on the weather (PNW). I have a great spot for them - my south- facing kitchen countertop. 
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Then I’ll get mine started this weekend. H is going alone to his dad’s so it will just be me and the cat here. Sounds like a good project, though I doubt the cat will help much.
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I think I looked at this years ago when I started my worm bins, here’s a link.
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At the zoom composting/gardening class, one of the speakers claimed that most inks these days are soy-based so safe to use for gardening purposes. Newspapers could be checked by calling the publisher.
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FYI peppers tend to take longer to sprout. Don’t be alarmed when other seeds have sprouted and peppers have not.
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Definitely longer, especially if seeds are older.
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Pepper seeds take about a month here, luckily I don’t eat a lot of them, I grow them for fun.
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It helps to keep your soil warm while you are sprouting peppers and tomatoes. We just got some heat strips and they are working well for my basil and tomatoes. Haven’t started peppers yet.
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I do a lot of hot peppers and they like heat–I use the heating pads underneath my trays of seedlings. Also, I don’t put anything outside until after May 31st.
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I use a special grow heat pad (for part of the day)for the first few days until other seeds sprout and then I am using a grow light.
Took my kale/beets/zinnias like 4-5 days to sprout . The peppers took more like 10 days
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I only bought cherry tomatoes and peppers this year. I planted all in pots with miracle grow. Even with a wire fence, the lizards get to them. I have them now in my enclosed patio. My pineapples do fine, though.
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All 3 of my fig trees are leafing out now. Yay! And the moringa trees are growing new leaves again, too.
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Great typo @BunsenBurner 
I planted 150 daffodil and Iris bulbs last fall. I’m not so patiently waiting to see how many of them actually pop up and flower.
I don’t have veggie plants but I do have a bunch of flowering perennials. I need to cut back my montauk daisies and my asters. Will do so as soon as the weather gets a bit warmer.
I’m going to need to get new lavender plants. For some odd reason, mine died after two years.
Sadly, our favorite plant place is closing. I already had a list of what I planned to buy there. Need to find a new place!
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My Dutch Irises came out a few days ago.
Today I’m happy that my paste tomato seeds have sprouted, and jalapeño M and Paprika also spouted on wet paper towel. I’m going to put them in small containers, then I will sprout Poblano and whatever old seeds I have. Some of the pepper seeds I’ve purchased a long time ago.
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Some good ideas here.
I’ve been saving various containers to fill bottom of big pots (which in my case may include a big old rubbermaid bin).
Does anybody use soap to deter pests ? It says deer, but wondering about rabbits.
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Things were starting to happen at the Jersey shore, as the weather had been mild until this past weekend, when we got an arctic blast. Sad to report that my neither my lenten roses nor the magnolia blossoms seem to have survived the hard freeze we’ve had for the past 3 nights here 
Last year, bunnies nibbled a lot of the plants in the beds by the house. A neighbor suggested chunks of Irish Spring soap. I ordered a 10 pack on sale, chopped the bars in half and spread them around. I didn’t see any more rabbits on our security cameras, but I can’t say for sure that the soap did the trick. I figured it was cheap enough to try and didn’t smell offensive the way dried predator urine granules do.
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