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- Grow peppers in the garden and harvest abundantly
- How do peppers thrive in the garden?
- Maintain peppers outdoors and harvest abundantly
- Tips & Tricks
Grow peppers in the garden and harvest abundantly
Fancy harvest-fresh peppers? Then it is worth collecting the seeds from the next red pod and using them for cultivation in the garden or on the balcony. It's so easy with freshly harvested peppers. To do this you need:
Red pods are fully ripe and suitable for semen production. Remove the paprika seeds from the pod, dry on kitchen paper and keep closed. From the beginning of March prepare the peppers to pull themselves.
How do peppers thrive in the garden?
Organically grown peppers are among the richest varieties of vegetables in the world. If you do not have a garden, you can grow healthy peppers on the balcony and harvest abundantly. Only when no risk of frost threatens, may pikierte young plants to the fresh air.
To do this, gradually put the peppers out into the open during the day and get used to temperature differences. For permanent residence, prepare the location from mid-May. The sunnier the location, the faster the fruit ripens. Fill the bed or planters with crumbly soil and compost. So the plants need no fertilizer in the first time. During the growing season they need a lot of space, light and warmth. So that they thrive well and spread the roots not too dense, but plant with the required planting distance and supported with a bamboo stick.
Maintain peppers outdoors and harvest abundantly
During the summer months, pepper plants swallow a lot of water. Therefore pour properly. Make sure that they do not dry out or suffer from waterlogging. As a starvation, they should also be supplemented during the season with nutrients such as potash (wood ash) a little nitrogen (horn shavings) and stinging nettle or supplied with a slow release fertilizer.
Depending on the weather and the type of pepper, from July to October you can first harvest spicy green and about 6 weeks later the sweet, red, fully ripe peppers and enjoy. Do not peel peppers, but cut them off with scissors or a sharp knife. This prevents unnecessary injuries to the plant.
Tips & Tricks
The more fruits you harvest, the more the plant starts. During the harvest, already think about the next cultivation next spring and use red peppers for the production of seeds.