in Russia are increasingly gaining popularity peppers.Cultivation and care begins with the preparation of seeds.Sow it in the middle of February (for the middle band) or in the second decade of March (southern regions).
Seeds
Before sowing the seeds are soaked in a solution of potassium permanganate crimson Disinfection and swelling for a few hours.Then, they need to dry flowability.
Ground
Before you grow sweet peppers through seedlings, it is necessary to properly prepare the ground.To do this, take the 5 liters of sod land, the same humus, add two cups of sand and 1-2 cups of ash.From mineral fertilizers will need: 2 tbsp.l.nitrophosphate fertilizer or other complex consisting of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus.Boxes or seedlings cups to fill 8-10 cm warm prepared soil, which must be tamped down and pour pink solution of potassium permanganate.As containers for plants can be used across the cut packages (Tetra paks) of juice or milk volume of 1-1.5 liters to make a hole (1 cm from the bottom) on the sidewalls.
Sowing
To ease felt sweet pepper, cultivation and care that requires some laborious, especially in the initial stage of the growing season, the seeds are placed in boxes at a distance of 7-8 cm from each other.The seedlings cups for one little thing.Laid the seeds need to sprinkle the ground (1 cm) and seal, moisten the ground with water from a spray bottle.To prevent moisture evaporation tank cover with glass or polythene before emergence (5-7days).The temperature is maintained within + 23 ... 26 degrees.When the first shoots cover removed.
Seedlings
All seedlings at the beginning of the growing season crops suffer from a lack of sunlight, including peppers.Cultivation and care is to maintain a certain temperature (25 day, 20 night) and highlighting fluorescent light.And to watering with warm water as the drying of the soil (every 5-7 days).
transplanting
soil for planting peppers seasoned with humus and mineral fertilizers consisting of phosphorus and potassium (as per instructions).
When the plants have 10-12 leaves and the first buds, they are planted in the ground.Sweet peppers are placed in a greenhouse in early May, and in the open field - the end of May - beginning of June.
Peppers in the open field
Outdoors at the spot where last year grew cabbages, onions or carrots, sweet peppers are planted.Cultivation and Care is regular watering, timely loosening of soil and weeding between the rows as needed.
First fertilizing is done in June, potassium and phosphorus, the second in July - potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen, and the third in August - nitrogen and phosphorus (according to instructions).
sweet pepper in the greenhouse
refill the soil and feeding the same as for open ground.In the greenhouse, care must be taken so that the condensate is not settled on the leaves of plants and airing exercise sufficient.To this end, it is desirable to zamulchirovat soil (stale sawdust, straw, perforated paper, etc..) And vents closed only at night.The distance between the plants in the greenhouse should be 50 - 100 cm, depending on the varietal characteristics.
good harvest!
