Sweet Bulgarian pepper. Landing in the ground and care for it

Sweet Bulgarian pepper is one of the most popular and useful vegetables, which is used both freshly and in stewed, boiled, marinated and canned. Growing sweet peppers at home is a painstaking, but quite workable. If you want to get a completely natural product, pepper is grown from seeds.

Selection of seeds and their preparation for sowing

To select more viable seeds, pour them into slightly salted water and choose the ones that were at the bottom of the tank. For decontamination should be kept for 20 minutes in a solution of potassium permanganate, and then - 12 hours in aloe juice. Seed sowing is carried out in February in boxes with prepared soil.

How to sow the correct pepper? Planting in the soil of seedlings

The bottom of the plastic or cardboard box is covered with a film and crushed egg shell, filled with soil from mixed in equal parts peat, turf and humus. Small rows are formed, the distance between which should be 4-5 centimeters, and the seeds are sown to a depth of 1-2 cm. Plants need freedom, so between the seeds are left gaps of 1-1.5 centimeters. Emerging shoots must be provided with light and protection from direct sunlight. When the first sheet already appears, it is necessary to discard the plants in a prepared container. After this, it is necessary to water the planting with a 1% solution of potassium permanganate, cover it and put it in a darkened room. In a couple of days, once again put seedlings in the light, providing a moderate watering without top dressing. In good weather, you can begin to season the seedlings, taking them out in the day to fresh air.

Pepper - landing in the ground. When and how?

Landing in the 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 has turned out to be cold, it is better to install a greenhouse made of metal arcs and rods, fixing them with twine and covering them with a film with the possibility of regulation depending on the temperature - the pepper responds well to airing. Planting is made in the prepared soil, compost, nitroammophosphate is introduced into it. In the 30x60 wells, abundantly watered with 1% solution of potassium permanganate, peppers are planted, which are then mulched with peat.

Pepper - landing in the ground, fertilizing. Care instructions

In the period of growth and flowering, which falls at the end of June, it is necessary to feed peppers. Two weeks after planting, they should be fertilized with mullein, during flowering - diluted with ashes, and after 3 weeks of freshness containing calcium and potassium fertilizer. After the formation of the ovaries, it is necessary to regulate the number of fruits, cutting off the small fruits, in order to reduce the strain on the plant. The harvest of peppers is collected in July-September.

Pepper - landing in the ground and care. Tips for truck farmers

1. The peppers need abundant watering and the overheating is counter-indicative.
2. It is necessary to loosen the soil for better aeration of the roots.
3. To avoid pepper diseases, provide plants with calcium and potassium when planting in the open ground.
4. Effective soil protection and preservation of nutrients in it - mulching.
5. Adjust the thickness of the film in the greenhouse depending on the temperature conditions and create conditions for ventilation of the greenhouse.
6. Peppers, like eggplants and tomatoes, are planted every year in a new place.

That's all the recommendations about how and when to plant pepper. Observing them, you can get a good harvest at the end of the season.