Growing peppers in a greenhouse

pepper gardening grown only two species: sweet, it is also called the Bulgarian and bitter.Sweet pepper as tomatoes and potatoes, belongs to the family Solanaceae.Typically, large fruit harvested still green, but over time they turn red.

Pepper - heat-loving plant.For normal growth of peppers need not only a higher temperature, but also humidity, so this culture is better to grow in a greenhouse.Growing peppers in a greenhouse is possible with other crops, such as cucumbers.

In open ground pepper is growing in areas with a mild climate and sheltered from the wind site.For the cultivation of pepper in less favorable conditions used greenhouses with high walls or film tunnels.Cultivation of pepper in greenhouse possible in soil in plastic film bags, filled with a nutrient mixture or in pots.

Growing peppers in the greenhouse begins with soil preparation.It needs to be fertilized each year, making organic and mineral fertilizers.After applying fertilizers bed of shallow dug, and watered for several days closed film.This is to ensure that the fertilizer soaked as much as possible.

peppers in a greenhouse in the middle lane are planted in mid-May.On a bed made two rows of holes in thirty centimeters.The depth of the wells is 10-15 centimeters.If you put the peppers in a way, the peppers will support each other, and they do not need to be tied up.At the bottom of the hole to put a handful of ashes and a third of a teaspoon of superphosphate.You can add a handful of humus, if the land is not enough fertilizer.All components should be well mixed with the soil and water magnetized water or a weak solution of potassium permanganate at the rate of one and a half liters per well.

pepper seedlings for two hours before landing in a greenhouse watered.Repot plants need in the evening, gently pulling them along with a clod of earth, so that the roots are not damaged.After the transplant, the soil around the plant to compress, and then pour and zamulchirovat humus or peat.Can be used for this purpose, a black film or nonwoven.

cultivation of sweet pepper in a greenhouse happens to meet a certain temperature, that is the day temperature should be 25-28 degrees at night - 14-16.If the temperature in the greenhouse will be lower than 15 degrees, plant growth stops and the flowers fall off.Therefore, in cold weather plants can be further conceal film or nonwoven material, putting it directly to the plant.But if the temperature is above 45 degrees - the plants die.

greenhouse temperature-regulated ventilation opening doors and transoms with only one hand, to avoid drafts.At night, the greenhouse must always be closed.

pepper cultivation in the home is not difficult, you need only the right to form a bush.Care for pepper is easier than cucumbers or tomatoes - it does not tie and stepson.The shoots and leaves that are below the point where the main stem branches - are removed.Keep only need two or three very strong stem, the rest - prischipnut.With the growth of the plants, with each successive branching should be left on one stalk.At the end of the season the top prischipivayut.Peppers should be watered regularly, as a lack of flowers begin to fall and the fruits - grow shallow.

If heated greenhouse - pepper, mostly tall varieties are planted in a greenhouse seed no later than March 1, and if the greenhouse is not heated, in mid-May.Growing peppers in the greenhouse will provide earlier and friendly harvest in July, while in the open ground in August and September.

ripe peppers are removed from the plant as needed.When grown in the greenhouse green pepper fruit on the plants leave for another week or two, they become red.