What care is needed for peppers in the garden?

So, you sowed the seeds on time, carefully and skillfully looked after the young seedlings, picked the seedlings into separate cups, and by summer you grew healthy and strong seedlings of peppers. But it’s too early to stop there! Timely and correct pepper care will provide you with an excellent harvest. Below we will present several simple but mandatory operations necessary for the formation of a large number of large and tasty fruits.

Preparing the beds
Two weeks before planting seedlings in the ground, it is imperative to prepare the soil. The soil in the beds must be loose, for this it needs to be dug up with a shovel (without turning the layer), fertilized with organic fertilizers (a bucket of humus or compost for each square meter) with the addition of a complex mineral fertilizer, for example, Kemira. By the time the seedlings are planted, the soil in the beds will settle, and little workers - earthworms - will settle in it.

Top dressing
But the pepper seedlings took root, noticeably turned green and began to grow. Buds formed on the bushes. At this time, pepper care involves feeding the plants with ash, at the rate of 1–2 cups of ash per 1 m². It is best to combine such fertilizing with the first hilling and loosening of the soil. Peppers love ash very much - after such feeding they are not afraid of either spider mites or aphids.

Watering
Another important point in caring for peppers is watering. Young plants should be watered only with warm water.If you organize moistening of the soil only in a ring behind the projection of the crown, then the root system of the pepper will develop more actively. When the bushes have grown sufficiently, you can water them at the roots. In peppers, the bulk of the roots are located almost near the surface - at a depth of 10-20 cm. It is this layer that needs to be thoroughly soaked.