sweet pepper - one of the most popular crops grown vegetable growers.However, this vegetable is very demanding, something not dopoluchiv, it could seriously punish their owners reduction or complete absence of harvest.Growing peppers require a lot of attention, knowledge and experience.Especially do not worry those who took only the first year for this business.Gradually, if there is a desire, the whole will be able to learn.
Growing seedlings pepper
In most areas, even in the south, cultivation of sweet pepper seedlings planting begins in the (end of February, beginning of March).This can be done both in the greenhouse and in the ambient conditions.It is best to grow the seedlings on the windowsill in special earthen cups, which are then easily transferred in the open ground.And all because the sweet pepper seedlings, as well as any other kind, really bad survives.For normal growth of the seedlings need moisture, heat and light.
When the seedlings reached 60-65 days of growth, it can be transplanted either in open ground or in the greenhouse.The latter option, of course, the most appropriate, but if this is not possible, you can try to harvest and from the pepper, which will grow in the streets.
pepper cultivation in the open field
If you decide to use this method to save money on the film, then you will not succeed.In any case the production of pepper in open ground needs time building a small greenhouse, which will warm the plants around the end of June.In May and June, even the weather is not very stable, which can lead to weak growth and the absence of sweet pepper crop.
So, first you need to prepare the ground.It has to fall you must dig, add rotted manure.Before planting you need to dig again, to make fertilizer.The cultivation of pepper in open ground is best carried out in the place where before grew beans, cucumbers, greens and root vegetables.Sweet pepper loves fertile soil, but if one is not available on the site, the ground need to add peat, rotted sawdust at the rate of one bucket per 1 sq.m.The beds should have a height of about 30 cm, while the width - about 1 meter, but the length - at the sole discretion.Also need to think in advance how to be built greenhouse.The easiest way is to pull on the plastic film or metal arc inserted into the ground.
When you are ready, you can start planting seedlings.This is best done at night, when solar activity is reduced.To do this, at a distance of 40-45 cm from each other need to dig a pit, taking into account the width of the aisles - 55-60 cm. In each hole is necessary to pour the water and wait until it is absorbed.Seedlings or earthen cup with the plant falls into the hole and carefully covered with soil.When transplanting is finished, you can pull the film.If the day is very warm, the film can be removed, do not forget to pull the night.
should pay attention to the fact that the cultivation of pepper in open ground in the first two weeks is unfavorable in nature: plants get sick, grow slowly.This suggests that the root system begins to take root.To help her, you can loosen the earth lightly, and reduce watering.When the peppers are well get stronger and begin to grow, watering should be increased to about 10-12 liters per 1 sq.m.The water used for this purpose only heat at a temperature of about 25 0C.Cold and cool water significantly inhibits the growth and fruit set.
During flowering is necessary to sweet peppers diluted fertilizer dry fertilizer "Fertility" (L 1 100 kg) at the rate of 1 liter per 1 bush.Another dressing is spent in the fruiting period (100 liters of water one bucket ptichevogo manure and 2 cups nitrophosphate).
to pepper bushes well fruited, it is necessary poudalyat top of the main stem and hold posynkovanie, leaving only the top 4-5 stepchildren.
