Sweet pepper is a very popular crop among vegetable growers.
And this is explained to many.
It contains a lot of useful vitamins and minerals, the number of which exceeds tomatoes and eggplants, and it has no equal in the content of ascorbic acid.
Pepper will decorate any dish on your holiday table, will give it a refined taste and aroma.
This plant to grow and get tasty fruit is easy if you comply with all agrotechnical measures.
Features of sweet pepper that you need to know when growing it
- Pepper is adversely affected by night and daytime temperature drops, as well as humidity drops.
- Insufficient coverage of culture, especially during the formation of buds, has a bad effect on its development.
- There are varieties and hybrids of sweet pepper. The best choice of your choice will be a hybrid, since it is more productive, more resistant to diseases and has beautiful, even fruits.
- For cultivation of culture most suitable flat, sunny, windless areas.
- It is necessary to prepare the ground for pepper immediately after harvesting the previous crop.
- You also need to know what fertilizer and when to apply.
Features of different types of soilthat need to be considered in order not to be disappointed in the harvest:
- What should be done to improve the fertility of the land, if the area loamy soil?
To do this, you will need the following components: rotted sawdust, peat or manure. All of the above must be made in certain quantities. Manure requires one bucket, two peat, sawdust is also one.
- What needs to be done to improve the fertility of the land, if on a plot of clay soils?
To improve such lands, it is necessary to take the sand of a large fraction and the same rotted sawdust, each of them in a bucket, mix and bring into the soil.
- What should be done to improve the fertility of the land if there is peat soils on the site?
With the predominance of such lands, it is necessary to add in it such components as: sod soils and humus. Each of them is taken on a bucket, mixed and introduced into the soil.
- What should be done to improve the fertility of the land, if the area is sandy soil?
When such soils are added the following substances: peat or clay soil, humus is added to them about two buckets and one bucket of sawdust.
How to be right set the stage for sweet pepper, we list all the steps:
- The first thing you need to know is that the land for planting crops begin to be prepared immediately after harvesting the crop of the predecessor, that is, in the fall. The ideal ones are: cabbage, cucumber.
- In the autumn period of soil preparation, organic fertilizers are applied along with mineral fertilizers. But before that, it is necessary to harrow or shallow plowing of the soil.
- But if suddenly it turned out that you did not manage to fertilize the land in the fall, it can be done in the spring. In the same way and the same fertilizer.
- After making all the necessary fertilizers dig the ground. At the same time, you should immediately make the beds on which the culture will grow. Height, which should be 25-30 cm.
- And the last thing that is done, these ready-made beds are watered with a solution prepared from the water of one bucket and 0.5 liters of mullein.
After the land preparation activities, it can be used for planting peppers.
Varieties and hybrids of sweet pepper that you can try for planting on your site: "Agapovsky", "Atlant", "Barguzin", "Alyosha Popovich", "Bogatyr", "Bonus", "Victoria", "Vitamin", " The gift of Caspian, Dobrynya, Yellow Bouquet, Green Miracle, Ilya Muromets, California Miracle, Bell, Cornet, Pioneer, The Gift of Moldova and many others.
When choosing any of them, you should decide for yourself what purpose you are going to use pepper for.
Crop seedlings can be grown in three conditions, and briefly about them:
- In room conditions. Such seedlings are best placed on windows or balconies, if there is not enough light, then you can also artificially illuminate. Water used for irrigation should be settled for several hours. Feed room seedlings twice. The first time when the leaves, and the second time two weeks after the first feeding.
- In greenhouses. In order to get high quality seedlings. It is necessary to use biofuels, that is, hot manure. Such seedlings can be grown with and without picking. The best option for growing seedlings will be to grow it in pots, which are installed on the ground of the greenhouse and watered. Feed the seedlings need at least two times.
- In the greenhouses. Growing seedlings in a greenhouse is easier than in a greenhouse. In such conditions, seedlings growing in pots can be brought out into the street to undergo the hardening procedure. In the greenhouse, seedlings are fed with mineral fertilizers once or twice.
Features planting culture
Since sweet pepper is characterized mainly by a long growing season, a suitable planting method will be transplanted.
When planting seedlings need to consider the distance between them. The best option would be 45-55 cm.
A suitable period for planting seedlings will be the last days of May or the first decade of June. Since there will already be complete confidence that the spring frosts will not come, and the culture will not freeze. The optimal time of day for such a process would be evening time, and you can also highlight an overcast day. Thus, the culture is better adapted to the new conditions and less injured.
In the afternoon, it is impossible to plant seedlings at all, especially if it is a very hot day.
Before planting, you need to prepare small dimples with a maximum depth of 50 cm. Put a little ash and humus on the bottom of the pit, and then set up seedlings and cover the pit.
For more rapid adaptation of plants to new conditions, they need cover with either film or other material. After the culture takes root and take root in the ground, the shelter can be removed.
In the first days of a plant’s life, it will look lifeless and lethargic, even if you water it often, but you shouldn’t worry, this is quite normal. After ten days, the culture will revive and begin to grow rapidly. In order for the seedlings to become better, it is necessary to carry out everyday soil loosening.
When planting a crop, you immediately need to install the pegs, so as not to injure it later. This is necessary in order to tie up the culture in the future and ensure its normal growth without breakage.
An important role in the life of a culture is played by staking a plant. For the formation of a stronger and branched bush, you need to do nip at the top. This process is carried out when the plant has reached at least 30 cm in height.
If you decide to plant several varieties of pepper. It is better to do this at a certain distance from each other. Because a cross-pollination of crops between themselves can occur, which will not greatly affect the taste of pepper in the future.
What must be observed when courting sweet peppers?
There are many diseases and pests that can harm the plant. To avoid this, you need to carry out preventive measures. In the fight against them can help both folk remedies and funds that are sold on the market.
Neighboring cultures can also protect their neighbors. For prophylaxis, plants can be watered with a solution every two weeks, but the main thing is not to overdo it.
You also need to pay attention to the timely watering of the crop, to tying it from excess breakage, weeding and removing weeds, as well as introducing various kinds of fertilizing plants for better development.
Watering culture is very important. With proper hydration, the plant will grow well and develop. The soil should be constantly hydrated. But must be monitored for precipitation if they have abundant watering at all should be excluded, and if not very, then from time to time it is necessary to water the culture.
It is best to moisturize the soil in the morning, on cold nights. And if not, watering is fashionable during the day. Water temperature should not be cold, so as not to harm the plant. Before irrigation, a slight loosening of the soil is needed; this is done in order to avoid bark formation around the crop.
Feed plant need in several stages:
- The first stage should be carried out after two weeks of planting the crop in an open area. For this event, you need to prepare a special solution consisting of urea, superphosphate and water. Combining all these components, they are thoroughly mixed and poured in 1 liter for each bush.
- The second stage must be carried out during the flowering of the plant. For this event you need to prepare the next solution consisting of urea, superphosphate and potassium sulfate and water. All components are mixed and brought under each bush.
- The third stage must be carried out at the time of the appearance of the initial fruits. For this event you need to prepare the following solution, consisting of potassium salt, water and superphosphate. All components are mixed and poured under each bush in two doses.
To loosen the ground under the planted plant should be carried out with extreme caution. Sweet pepper root systems are close to the surface. In order not to harm the roots of pepper, loosening is carried out not to great depth.
The fruits of culture can be removed immature and ripe. But when removing them immature, you can get a greater harvest.
