heat needed for peppers and eggplants, HOW?

DoubleJ · March 19, 2009

OK, I need a difinitive answer. Is the heat needed for good pepper and eggplant growth needed in the roots or the plant as a whole? If it's needed in the plant as a whole, I can place them in a greenhouse. If I only need the soil hot so the roots stay hot, can I just place them in 5 gl pots and leave them on the concrete driveway? That should warm the soil enough. It gets 75-80 in the summer here with night temps about 50ish. I would prefer to keep my greenhouse for other things but, if I need to put my peppers and eggplants in there, I guess I have to.

March 19, 2009	#1
DoubleJ Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Shelton, WA Posts: 127	heat needed for peppers and eggplants, HOW? OK, I need a difinitive answer. Is the heat needed for good pepper and eggplant growth needed in the roots or the plant as a whole? If it's needed in the plant as a whole, I can place them in a greenhouse. If I only need the soil hot so the roots stay hot, can I just place them in 5 gl pots and leave them on the concrete driveway? That should warm the soil enough. It gets 75-80 in the summer here with night temps about 50ish. I would prefer to keep my greenhouse for other things but, if I need to put my peppers and eggplants in there, I guess I have to.