Pepper - is thermophilic, which also can not do without a sufficient amount of moisture. Furthermore aroma and taste, which fills each dish vegetable, pepper has a large amount of vitamins. If you learn how to properly care for the plant, it will bear fruit before the cold weather.
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The reasons that pepper can be lost
Pepper in open ground can be lost for several reasons. Seedlings may be adversely affected due to low ambient temperature. This often happens when the peppers are planted in open ground in early spring. Frosts are harmful for the vegetable.
The seeds can not germinate unless they are watered in a timely manner. For the same reason, it may wither and seedlings. But if the plants watered with cold water, it may also trigger the death of pepper.
Vegetable does not like acidic soil, so the soil so it will not grow and will not give a good harvest. Another reason, which is dangerous to all of horticultural crops, - mildew and other similar diseases. They can grow in the beds, which were not disinfected before planting a vegetable garden.
How to properly care for pepper?
Pepper is recommended to plant at the site, where previously grown crops such as:
- Edible roots;
- cabbage;
- cucumbers;
- beans.
The seed sprouted quickly, they should be sown when the soil temperature has warmed below + 15 ° C. Soil previously decontaminated aqueous solution of manganese. To a well-developed shoots, the air to warm up to at least + 18 ° C. For growing period considered optimal temperature + 20 ° C... + 28 ° C. Humidity should be about 60-70%. If the hot weather, it will be lower, the plant will start to drop buds.
Seeds or seedlings planted in rows, the distance between them should be about 60 cm. Among the bushes leaving a gap of 25-30 cm. To each well, put a handful of humus. Further, it should add 3.4 g of superphosphate (available MAP) and then pour water.
If seedlings are grown in greenhouses, planted it in the open ground is recommended only after pre-hardening. On the stem should be at least 8 sheets, and plant height of about 30 cm. Intrusion of buds. At the root of the stem thickness must be at least 3 cm.
Vegetable crops like water, but the soil must be friable. If the land take a crust, then the excess moisture will cause the death of pepper.
So that the plant is well developed, it is necessary to remove the weeds and fertilize. The first feeding is made in the ground 2 weeks after the plants germinate. In use as a fertilizer chicken manure. It is diluted with water in a ratio of 1:15. Chicken manure can replace mullein. His diluted in a ratio of 1: 8.
The second time fertilize the plant can be no earlier than 2 weeks. Pepper bushes can fertilize ammophos or superphosphate. To prepare the required 10 L of water to dissolve 40-50 g fertilizer. It can also be used to feed potassium chloride (20 g in 10 liters water) and wood ash (200 g for 10 liters). Under each bush was poured 500 ml of the resulting liquid. The next day, the soil should be fluff garden hoe.
Between butonoobrazovaniya pepper irrigate aqueous boric acid solution (100 g per 10 liters of fluid).
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