extreme direct sowing

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I like direct sowing and do this with most of my veggies, lettuces, silverbeet and all the other stuff.
But there are some veggies I always raised seedlings so far: broccoli, tomatoes, tomatillo, peppers, aubergines, ground cherries...
Did anyone try to direct sow these? What were the results?

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Angelika Maier

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I have tomatoes which sowed themselves out last year, but deliberately direct sowing peppers or ground cherries or aubergines??
The difference is the amount of seeds i guess.

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Russell Olson

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Ground cherries do very well, just throw seeds and even whole fruit in the area you want them in, they'll pop up when the soil warms.

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Thanks the soil is not warm now it is hot! Our climate is just crazy, i'll give it a try.
(Our climate is cool but it feels like subtropical now with storms in the afternoon!!)

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