How to plant pepper seedlings in the ground?

1.11.2016 Pepper The calendar

Pepper refers to those vegetable crops that can hardly be called the main and obligatory at the summer cottage. But without them, the garden is boring! And how to do winter preservation in the country, if you have all your ingredients except sweet pepper? For such a thing, you can grow pepper in your garden! It is best to do this from seedlings: then the pepper bushes are stronger and begin to bear fruit earlier. Proper planting of pepper seedlings in open ground is the key to success in obtaining a good harvest. We’ll talk about this.

Growing pepper seedlings at home

Start growing pepper seedlings best in early March. By this time, fill the seedling boxes with good soil (preferably black soil, not the same soil for indoor plants that is sold in stores) and fill it with water. Then remove the topsoil, sprinkle with pepper seeds over the remaining wet soil and cover them with the previously removed soil. Put a large transparent bag directly on the box, tightly tie it so that air does not pass anywhere. And leave it for 2 weeks so that the seeds germinate in this "greenhouse".
After sprouting the seeds of pepper, wait another week or two for the sprouts to grow stronger and stretch, and then remove the bag and carefully pour the seedlings. Put it on the windowsill so that the plants receive as much sunlight as possible. Grow seedlings until there are 5-6 leaves on the bushes, and in the country there is no risk of frost.

How to plant pepper seedlings in the soil on a bed?

The algorithm for planting seedlings of vegetable crops in open ground is approximately the same, but do not forget about the characteristics of certain plants. For example, seedlings of cabbage crops should be dug into the ground right up to the leaves themselves, and nightshade bushes (tomatoes, eggplant and the same peppers) - on the contrary, planted higher. This is due to the fact that nightshade are very afraid of cold weather, and their leaves, too low to the ground, can instantly "catch" a fungal disease. With this in mind, you can start planting seedlings of peppers on a bed directly into the ground.

1. Prepare the pepper bed in advance. Dig it up to eliminate the roots of the pest plants and supply the soil with oxygen. Then use a chopper or other convenient tool to make deep pepper holes. Each well should be approximately 20 cm in diameter and deep enough so that a plant can be planted in it and sprinkled with earth. Then walk along the completed holes with a watering can and fill each of them with water. Wait for the water to completely sink into the ground.

2. Distribute the seedlings of peppers in the wells. To do this, carefully separate the lump of land with seedlings so as not to damage the root system of plants, and put a bush in each hole. This step is optional, but it will help you see how many peppers you have and whether there are enough holes for all of them.

2. Carefully make a hole in the center of each hole, and place the roots of the pepper bush in each such hole. Unlike tomatoes, which can be planted “lying down” (they can rise, focusing on the sun), this number will not work with peppers. They need to be planted only "standing", well strengthening the base of the bushes with earth. Do this first with wet soil, and then sprinkle with dry soil to protect the pepper bed from the cold.

3. Check that peppers are firmly attached to all holes.The first few days, the seedlings will look slightly “tired”, but this is normal: she needs time to begin.

4. After a few days, pepper seedlings will feel much better. And when the bushes grow, it will be possible to begin to care for the garden - to water, feed and wait for the harvest!

Planting pepper seedlings in open ground is quite simple, but the main task is how to maintain pepper bushes and help them develop well after that. We will talk about this in one of our next publications!