Planting sweet peppers in a greenhouse or open ground
Sweet peppers belong to the nightshade family. It contains many vitamins necessary for the human body. Growing sweet peppers on a plot is not difficult; it is enough to create certain temperature conditions, provide sufficient humidity and timely watering.
Typically, sweet pepper seeds are sown from early February to mid-March. Seedlings are planted in a greenhouse or greenhouse in May, starting in the middle of the month; sweet peppers are planted in open ground in early summer. Planting time is determined by many factors:
- pepper variety,
- the sower's place of residence,
- the presence of a greenhouse or greenhouse.
Just like when sowing most nightshade crops, sweet peppers are planted using seedlings. Seeds will grow in 50 - 55 days if the seedlings are provided with good conditions. The plant, ready for planting, has 6 – 12 leaves, reaches a height of 20 – 35 cm, flower buds are in the formation stage.
Algorithm for planting sweet peppers
- Prepare light, structured, well-drained soil that contains organic matter in the form of humus, but not manure oversaturated with nitrogen.
- Plant pepper plants at a distance of 30 - 40 cm from each other, the distance between lines is half a meter. Do not bury seedlings when planting. Planting density in the greenhouse is 3 – 5 pcs./sq.m., in open ground 5 – 8 pcs./sq.m.
- Planting sweet peppers ends with watering the plants.
