Varieties of sweet peppers are best for planting at home: Fox – fruits grow orange and candy (hybrid) – red fruits. The candy hybrid has small fruits of 40-50 grams, and the fox has a slightly larger size. Especially tasty – Fox.
In order to receive fresh peppers all winter, seeds should be sowed in two terms (in the last days of July and in early September).
Peppers should be taken, fill them with good fertile land. Plant two seeds in each pot.
Then pour, close with a film and leave in a greenhouse. Pots should be put in a shaded place (best under the bushes of tomatoes, cucumbers or peppers that grow in a greenhouse). This will prevent the soil from quick drying out and overheating.
When the sprouts appear, the film should be pierced with a knitting needle, if necessary, you need to water the ground around the pots. Remove the film from the pots after the peppers begin to grow, pour and feed them. It is very good to feed the plants with a solution of shot nettle and mineral fertilizer (for example, Kemira Combi).
You should ensure that the pests do not harm young bushes. It is not necessary to dive peppers, it is better to remove excess and weaker plants.
A very important point! It is necessary not to miss the time when the roots of the peppers begin to germinate through the pot (the walls of which, from peat). Plants must be transplanted into plastic containers half a meter in size.
Containers, first you need to fill out. At the bottom – one and a half centimeter layer of expanded clay, then pour disinfected loose fertile ground. Next – put a pot of peat (with pepper) inside the container and fill all the free space with the same fertile soil. Leave the peppers in the greenhouse, covering them with grass.
With the onset of cold weather (at night temperatures below plus 14 degrees) peppers must be transferred home.
September sowing of sweet pepper seeds must be kept at home at a temperature plus 20-22 degrees, building a small greenhouse for them on the window from the south side. It should be remembered that the autumn landings are more capricious, they need backlight in cloudy weather. Also – peppers need abundant watering and frequent loosening of the soil on the surface of pots. To facilitate the work, it is recommended to pour expanded clay on top.
To get a good harvest, you need to correctly form plants. To do this, the peppers should be raised in two stems and leave on each one the most severe escape, pinching the weak shoot by 1 sheet and 1 fruit.
Peppers (for the most part) are self -pollinated and problems with pollination should not arise.
When the peppers on the windowsill begin to intensively tie, at this time they need feeding fertilizers (phosphorus and potassium) and backlight in the short and dark days of winter pores. Peppers also need daily spraying and once a month – in a warm shower (while the land in containers must be covered with polyethylene film). If aphids appear, then you need to clean it with your hands and rinse it with water.
After collecting the first fruits of sweet pepper, be sure to water and feed the plants.
You should know that subject to the rules of agricultural technology, you can collect ripe peppers until spring. This is possible if the ovaries of sweet pepper are a large number and part of the fruits when they reach technical maturity.
Fresh peppers will, by the way, to the table in a long winter time.
And for reference. There is so much vitamin C in sweet pepper that it even exceeds the lemon in this indicator and is in no way inferior to blackcurrant.
Thus, sweet pepper grown in winter is a real storehouse of vitamins.