When to plant pepper seedlings?

Sweet bell pepper is one of the most common vegetable crops in our gardens. Its cultivation is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance, and with proper care, the plants produce rich harvests of tasty and natural sweet peppers, which, although they ripen by autumn, still delight us with their beneficial properties.

Many gardeners grow sweet peppers from their own seedlings. And here when to plant pepper seedlings?

It's best to start doing this already in mid-February. In this case, it is advisable to first familiarize yourself with the calendar of beneficial dates for sowing certain vegetables and sow pepper seeds for seedlings on these days.

In mid-February there is still quite a short daylight hours, so most likely you will have to pepper illuminated with fluorescent lamps. But it is advisable to place the boxes with the sown seeds on a south window so that the rays of the sun will already pamper the future plants. After 2-3 weeks, the first leaves appear on the plants, i.e. By the beginning of March, the pepper will already germinate.

Before sowing pepper seeds, it is advisable to wet, for which you can use the most ordinary cotton pads or gauze, then they will germinate faster, which means they will produce their first leaves faster, which in turn will speed up the process of planting seedlings in the soil to a permanent place of growth and future fruiting. It is only important to plant the sprouted seeds in time so as not to damage their fragile roots and seedlings.

Thus, to answer the question - when to plant pepper seedlings? - then you can safely set a time frame - mid-to-late February.