Pepper refers to heat-loving crops.But breeders brought out more than 200 varieties, some of which bring a wonderful harvest even in the harsh conditions of Siberia and the Urals. This is not only the sorts intended for growing in greenhouses. Early varieties of pepper are successfully grown on the open ground. Today in Russia more than three dozen varieties of sweet and two dozen varieties of hot pepper are zoned.
Сладкий перец сорта имеет разные, и все они They are valued for their high content of vitamins and mineral salts. They have excellent nutritional and taste properties. Pepper has no equal among vegetables in the content of ascorbic acid in ripe fruits.
Early varieties of pepper are quite largethe period of technical ripeness of fruits (from the moment of emergence to harvest) is 85-100 days. Pepper shrubs are compact, have an average height (height of the bush within 1.0-1.4 m) and thick foliage. The most popular in the CIS were Agapovsky, Atlant, Dobrynya, Ruza F1.
These varieties are prismatic, smoothand a slightly ribbed surface. Individual varieties have a fruit weight of up to 280 grams at a length of 15 cm. Breeders were able to instill varieties resistance to many known viruses - tobacco mosaic and potato virus.
The pepper is very demanding.Sorts of almost everything in conditions of not too short a day develop better. But a big lack of light pepper is contraindicated - a significant part of pepper flowers is not fertilized and falls down.
Water in a large quantity of pepper is most needed in the period of fruiting. With insufficient moisture, many buds and ovaries fall off.
Sweet pepper in most cases grown in seedlings, except in the southern regions, where the seeds of pepper are sown much earlier than tomatoes - in late February.
When determining the location of seedlingstake into account what was growing on the site in the previous year. The most favorable place is considered to be a site where before the growth of pumpkin and legumes or cabbage. It is not recommended to grow pepper after nightshade and near cucumbers. Varieties of any reduce the yield due to such predecessors, and the risk of pepper diseases is great.
Sweet pepper is planted on high-fertility andloose soils that are deeply buried, and have a sandy or loam structure. Sweet peppers, spicy - varieties are planted in beds as far apart as possible - this avoids over-dusting.
Long before planting pepper seedlings (in autumn) onThe soil is being prepared for this crop. To do this, make potassium and phosphorus fertilizers, carefully dig through the ground, and in the spring the site is saturated with nitrogen fertilizers. To the loamy soil, add the dumped manure, peat and rotted sawdust.
With clayy dense soil add sand. With a large amount of sand in the soil on the site, humus and sawdust, wood ash, superphosphate and potassium sulfate are added.
Pepper (varieties any) in the form of seedlings are plantedafter the termination of frosts at soil temperature above 15 ° C, it is somewhere around mid-June. Pepper does not require a deep planting - it even hurts it. Seedlings are planted in the ground at the level of the first real leaves.
Since the air temperature at night even in June is not always stable, seedlings for the first 5-7 days are covered with film, polyethylene or paper bags.
After planting seedlings in the ground,top dressing. In total, no less than two additional dressings are produced. As it is used finely chopped leaves of dandelion, nettle, plantain, mullein and wood ash, which are mixed in a barrel and poured with water. The mixture is infused for 7-10 days. So it turns out a top dressing, which saturates the soil around the pepper. You can use diluted manure with water (1: 10), urea or nitrophosphate. It is often used for feeding bird (chicken) droppings in the proportion 1:12.
If you want to grow a good crop of a vegetable culture, like pepper, you need to choose carefully the varieties and be sure to follow the aforementioned agrotechnics.
