Planting and caring for sweet pepper seedlings

Bell peppers are very popular for their specific taste, as well as for the beneficial substances it contains, such as carotene, vitamin C. Ready-made sweet pepper seedlings are sold on the market, but you should still try to grow them yourself. Only then can you be confident in the quality of the seed, in the selected variety and healthy seedlings.

Caring for pepper seedlings consists in timely watering, ensuring the correct light regime, and picking. And so about everything in order. To correctly calculate the time for planting pepper, keep in mind that usually the seedlings ripen for transplantation to a permanent place in 60 - 70 days. Before sowing, sweet pepper seeds are soaked for some time in solutions of useful microelements, for example, in saltpeter or in a tincture of wood ash. 3 tablespoons of ash are placed in a glass of water and insisted for two days. Then they filter and keep the seeds in the resulting liquid for 4-6 hours.

For planting pepper seeds, a mixture of sod land and humus or peat and humus is preliminarily prepared. The soil mixture is fertilized with superphosphate and potassium salt at the rate of 40 g and 20 g, respectively, per 10 kg. Seeds are sown in small depressions up to 2 cm and lightly sprinkled with soil. Boxes of pepper seeds are placed near a heat source (the temperature should be at least 20 degrees) and light, after emergence, you need to find a cooler place with good lighting.

Approximately two weeks after sprouting, the peppers are pickable, after which the seedlings are shaded a little. Caring for pepper seedlings after a dive includes maintaining optimal temperature, humidity, fertilization with superphosphate or saltpeter.