Planting Pepper In Open Ground

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

In Russia, pepper is a fairly common vegetable crop, which belongs to the nightshade family. All plant varieties are divided into three types: sweet, bitter and semi-sharp. In order to grow this guest from America on the site, you need to follow some rules and nuances. Planting peppers in open ground requires special attention

How to choose a place to grow peppers?

In order for the whole process of growing a vegetable crop in the form of pepper to go smoothly and without obstacles, a competent selection of a place on the site for planting is required. It must necessarily be closed from wind streams from the northern and northeastern regions. It is best to choose beds with a slope on the south side. Often, such places are created independently by installing inclined bed-boxes. Also, the presence of long pits will help to slow down the rapid drainage of moisture.

Peppers should not be planted in areas where tomatoes, potatoes or eggplants were previously grown, since they take the same components from the soil. Both diseases and insect pests are the same in these crops. This is another reason to avoid this situation. It is best to plant the vegetable in places where cucumbers, pumpkins, melons or legumes were previously located.

Pepper inflorescences can pollinate themselves on their own, since in its corolla the pistil is located slightly below the stamens, if we consider sweet varieties of peppers. In the case of bitter crop species, pollination is cross-fertilized due to the higher pistil. However, any peppers feel uncomfortable in shaded areas. In such a situation, the leaves cannot absorb a lot of light, and the vegetable crop will not be able to draw out a large amount of nutrients from the ground.

How to cultivate the land before planting pepper in the open air?

Sandy loam or light dark soils will be an excellent soil option for growing peppers in the garden or on the site. However, it is necessary to ensure that the soil contains sufficient humus. It will also help to retain moisture in the plants for a long time.

If only other types of soil (not black soil) are present in the garden, and their acidity indicators are very high, then fertilization should be carried out using lime and potassium chloride. During the digging of the site in the autumn season, it is necessary to add manure to the soil at the rate of: about ten kilograms per square meter of territory. Fertilizer in the form of superphosphate is added twice a year - in autumn and spring. Seventy grams of substance is enough per square meter. In addition, in the spring season, humus and compost can be scattered over the area. Digging into the area where the pepper will be planted must be carried out not with a shovel, but with such a tool as a pitchfork.

He loves this plant very much when the earth is rich in minerals and nutrients. Even a hundred or a little more grams of fertilizers with a potassium nitrogen content plus a little dolomite flour per square meter of land will help make the soil more fertile.

When to plant peppers outdoors?

If pepper seedlings are sufficiently hardened, then pepper sprouts can be planted on the beds even at a time when the risk of frost is present. In order to avoid exposure to low temperatures on plants, it should be covered with a transparent film. However, such a planting process can still threaten the chance of getting damaged seedlings, since the ground can freeze. Therefore, these planting dates are more suitable for the southern regions of the country. In temperate and northern climates, it is believed that peppers should be planted when the first warm days come. Depending on the region, this can be early May or early June.

To determine how ready the land is for planting a vegetable crop, its temperature indicators should be measured. It is best if it varies between ten and twelve degrees. The optimum air temperature is sixteen to eighteen degrees. In colder weather, there is a risk of inhibition of growth and lack of fruiting at all.

How thick the pepper bushes need to be planted, the summer resident will have to decide based on a number of factors: the variety of pepper and the beginning of the fruiting period. If the crop should appear very early, then it is enough to maintain a distance of thirty centimeters between the plants. Between the rows, it should leave about sixty centimeters. The average harvest time gives a reason to plant crops twenty to thirty centimeters apart and seven tens of centimeters between the rows. Very different indicators for late vegetables. The distance between the copies is thirty-five centimeters, and between the rows - seventy.