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- Pull the pepper yourself - from seed to pod
- Prepare paprika seeds to pull yourself
- Pull peppers yourself - everything you need
- Seedlings sprout out of seeds
- From seedling to many colored pods
- Tips & Tricks
Pull the pepper yourself - from seed to pod
The demand for organic vegetables from our own garden continues to increase. Especially in the case of Mediterranean vegetables, questions arise as to whether and how you can, for example, grow and grow your own peppers. Those who do not want to buy seedlings simply remove the seeds from fully ripe, red pods.
Prepare paprika seeds to pull yourself
Anyone who wants to pull peppers themselves and get them to germinate should pay attention to the typical peculiarities of the plant. Because they are not indigenous plants, the climate can be of great concern to them. Peppers need more time, heat and light than other fruit vegetables.
The colored supermarket peppers are not different varieties, but different degrees of maturity. Therefore, make sure that the cores to pull yourself and sows come from a fully ripe, red pod. After removal from the fruit, the seeds must be cleaned, dried and kept until spring. From March you can prepare the preserved seeds for sowing.
Pull peppers yourself - everything you need
As an ideal location for paprika sowing, a window sill on the south side or the seeds are supported during the germination period with plant light. Besides patience you need:
Seedlings sprout out of seeds
Those who garden after the moon use the increasing moon phase at the beginning of March until the full moon. Because this time you should dedicate fruit plants such as tomatoes or peppers that develop above ground, for sowing. In a few steps from seed to seedling:
From seedling to many colored pods
From a height of 10 centimeters, it is time to pique the young plants. Carefully plant the peppers with the complete root ball in pots or in the bed. Apart from heat, it now requires a little more care, lukewarm watering and fertilizer.
Faster and more reliable than outdoors is the cultivation of your own peppers in the greenhouse. Under glass, the plants are wind and weather protected. This makes the peppers bloom faster. Harvest of the first fruits in the greenhouse is from July. Free-range peppers in the garden or on the balcony can be harvested from August to the end of October.
Tips & Tricks
Paprika not only enriches the diet, but is also suitable as an ornamental plant for garden or balcony thanks to its beautiful flowers.