Growing bell pepper from seedlings

25.10.2016 Pepper

Peppers in a summer cottage are best grown from seedlings (read about proper cultivation of pepper seedlings) It is then that the bushes will turn out to be stronger, they will quickly grow and begin to bloom and bear fruit earlier. Of course, many summer residents do not have the opportunity to constantly monitor their garden: this applies to those who work in the city on weekdays, and come to the hacienda only on weekends. In this case, vegetables grow on their own and adapt to weather conditions as they can. Many of them do not withstand, for example, a weekly drought and die. But if you have the opportunity to observe how vegetables grow in your beds and help them in time, it is best to do this in accordance with all the rules. Growing bell pepper in open ground from seedlings is a grateful lesson that will bring you joy and good work results!

How to water pepper?

Pour pepper into the hole method. This means that it is not necessary to use a watering can with holes: the main thing is not to cover the leaves and flowers of peppers with water, but to properly fill the wells with liquid. In order for the fruits of the pepper to grow fleshy, the beds should not be allowed to completely dry. In a drought, peppers can bear fruit, but the fruit will have very thin walls. After each watering, you need to wait half a day, and then gently loosen the earth around the bushes - thus, in addition to moisture, peppers will also receive oxygen, which means they will grow stronger.

Organic pepper nutrition

Organic dressing for growing peppers must be used. This liquid in all variations smells unpleasant, but it is a valuable “drink” for vegetable crops! Water the peppers twice a month, and you will see that right after that the bushes seem to come to life - the color of the leaves becomes more saturated, and the bushes themselves develop much faster.
For feeding peppers (as for other nightshade crops), mullein and herbal infusion are well suited. It is very simple to prepare an organic watering mixture: mix 1 kg of mullein (or 3 kg of nettle) with 30 l of water, cover and leave to roam in a sunny place. After a few days (if the weather is sunny) or after 2 weeks (if it rains), the mixture will ferment, and it will be possible to water the wells of a pepper bed with it.

Removing old leaves on pepper bushes

Although pepper leaves are not as large as tomatoes and eggplants, they also need to be cut off. Not all: only the lowest, yellowed (those fall away from the touch itself) and covering the sun with the fruits of peppers. This rule becomes especially relevant in September, when you need to get ripe pepper fruits as quickly as possible. So that they have time to ripen to frost and not rot from the autumn cold, you can break off as many leaves from each bush as possible: then all the forces of the plant will go to the development of the fruit.

How to grow strong bushes of peppers from seedlings?

There are additional recommendations on how to grow strong bushes of peppers and get a large crop from them. To check if they work in your summer cottage, conduct an experiment: try these tips on several bushes, and then (near the end of the warm season) compare the results. So, tips for growing pepper are simple:

- Double tops. Bushes of peppers fruit the tops. Accordingly, in order to get more fruits, you need to make the tops themselves on the bushes more.To do this, 3 weeks after planting seedlings (when the bushes have already taken root, but have not yet begun to bloom), they break off the top of the bush with your hands - a bunch of upper leaves. At this point, after some time, two branches grow, which develop into two tops.
- Peppers love to grow in pairs. To make the pepper bushes grow stronger and stronger, plant seedlings in pairs. In other words, plant the peppers in two rows instead of a large bed. Pepper bushes will seem to support each other and will grow stronger faster.

Growing bell pepper from seedlings is a very exciting experience. And if you organize it correctly, then the results of garden work will please you!