How to plant peppers in the ground correctly

Sweet pepper is one of the most popular vegetables in our country. You can use it to prepare fresh vegetable salads, or you can bake, fry, stuff, preserve...

To reap a good harvest, it is important to know how to plant peppers in the ground correctly. In our region, it is best to grow (or buy) seedlings, so the peppers will begin to bear fruit earlier. This does not require any special skills; pepper seedlings are planted in the same way as tomatoes and other vegetable crops. Before planting, you can germinate the seeds a little by soaking them in damp gauze, or you can do without it. However, it is worth remembering that before planting in the ground, seedlings should be hardened off a little. To do this, a few days before planting, the pots with seedlings are taken outside into the sun, and brought back indoors at night.

When both the soil and the seedlings are ready, you can begin planting the peppers in the ground. For this, it is best to choose morning or evening time, but not daytime (for many reasons). Before planting each specific bush, carefully inspect the root system of the plant so that it is healthy and free of rot. Rotten roots (if there are not many of them) can be carefully removed with a knife. After planting, don't forget to water the garden bed well!

To protect peppers from low night temperatures or frosts, which occasionally happen here even in May-June, you can cover each bush with a 3-liter bottle, jar or cut-off plastic bottle.However, before planting peppers, it doesn’t hurt to check the weather forecast to predict imminent frosts.