Sweet bell pepper is one of the most popular and he althy vegetables, which is used both fresh and stewed, boiled, pickled and canned. Growing sweet peppers at home is a painstaking but doable task. If you want to get a completely natural product, pepper is grown from seeds.
Seed selection and preparation for sowing
To select more viable seeds, pour them into lightly s alted water and select those that are at the bottom of the container. For disinfection, they should be kept for 20 minutes in a solution of potassium permanganate, and then for 12 hours in aloe juice. Sowing of seeds is carried out in February in boxes with prepared soil.
How to sow peppers correctly? Planting seedlings in the ground
The bottom of a plastic or cardboard box is covered with film and crushed eggshells, covered with soil from peat, turf and humus mixed in equal parts. Small rows are formed, the distance between which should be 4-5 centimeters, and sownseeds to a depth of 1-2 cm. Plants need freedom, so gaps of 1-1.5 centimeters are left between the seeds. Emerging shoots must be provided with light and protection from direct sunlight. When the first leaf already appears, the plants should be planted in the prepared container. After that, you need to water the landing with a 1% solution of potassium permanganate, cover and put in a darkened room. After a couple of days, put the seedlings back into the light, providing moderate watering without top dressing. In good weather, you can begin to harden the seedlings by taking them out into the fresh air during the day.
Pepper - planting in the ground. When and how to do it?
Landing in open ground is carried out at the end of May. By this time, the plant has more than 10 leaves and several flowers. If the spring turned out to be cold, it is better to install a greenhouse made of metal arcs and rods, securing them with twine and covering them with a film that can be adjusted depending on the temperature - pepper responds well to ventilation. Planting is carried out in prepared soil, compost, nitroammophosphate are introduced into it. Peppers are planted in holes 30x60 in size, abundantly watered with a 1% solution of potassium permanganate, which are then mulched with peat.
Pepper - planting in the ground, top dressing. Care instructions
During the period of growth and flowering, which falls at the end of June, it is necessary to feed the peppers. Two weeks after planting, they should be fertilized with mullein, during flowering - with diluted ash, and after 3 weeks, they should be fertilized with calcium and potassium.fertilizers. After the formation of the ovaries, the number of fruits should be regulated by cutting off small fruits to reduce the load on the plant. Peppers are harvested in July-September.
Pepper - planting in the ground and care. Tips for gardeners
- Peppers need abundant watering and overheating is contraindicated.
- Be sure to loosen the soil for better aeration of the roots.
- To avoid pepper diseases, provide plants with calcium and potassium when planting outdoors.
- Effective soil protection and nutrient retention - mulching.
- Adjust the thickness of the film in the greenhouse according to the temperature conditions and create conditions for the ventilation of the greenhouse.
- Peppers, like eggplants and tomatoes, are planted in a new place every year.
That's all the advice on how and when to plant peppers. By following them, you will be able to get a good harvest at the end of the season.
