If you want to know how to grow peppers at home and have a bountiful harvest, carefully follow these recommendations: only then this vegetable will grow abundantly.
How to grow peppers at home and with minimal effort? Revealed the secret that will allow you to bring this vegetable to your table in abundance. Here are the tips you must cherish.
Friendly vegetable garden
It is absolutely not true that to grow fruits and vegetables it is necessary to have many hectares of land or a large garden available. Some varieties of plants can grow very well even in an apartment or on the balcony of the house .
Do you know the Chinese mandarin plant ? It is small, does not require special care and can give you juicy fruits even if you place it on the terrace or in a bright corner of your house.
Of course, there are also plants that require more space to grow , such as tomatoes for example, which, depending on the variety, can even exceed one meter in height. In this case, it would be advisable to bury these plants in a fairly large garden or vegetable patch.
What about peppers instead? A vegetable loved by Italians, it lends itself to making healthy and exquisite dishes . Did you know that you can also grow this plant at home ? Here are all the tips for having a healthy and abundant harvest.
How to Grow Peppers at Home: The Foolproof Technique
Among the vegetables most consumed and appreciated by Italians there are peppers which can also be grown at home, did you know that? In fact, we tell you even more: they are among the easiest and most profitable crops in terms of yield , but only if you follow precise rules.
Today you will find out how to grow peppers at home , in a short time and produce a bountiful harvest . We want to share with you the surefire remedy that will make you bring lots of peppers to your table.
To put this technique into practice, you must first buy a pepper from the greengrocer or supermarket. Cut it in half and collect all the seeds it contains.
Alternatively, you can also buy pepper seeds directly from the store . In the first and second cases it will not be necessary to wait for the seeds to dry , but we can proceed immediately to sowing.
Get a pot large enough and fill it with garden soil added with organic fertilizer such as chopped eggshells, for example. Make sure the soil is sufficiently moist and well-drained as peppers cannot tolerate standing water.
Now you will have to start spreading your pepper seeds in the soil that you put inside the pot and water them once a day : after 3 days you will only start to notice small green shoots.
Don’t forget to place the pot containing the pepper seeds in a cool place, bright but not too bright, where the sun’s rays do not directly hit the sprouts.
What happens after just 7 days is even more incredible: the seedlings will now have developed roots and are ready to regrow. So move the pot to a warm, bright place, remembering to water the soil at least once a day, every day.
After 15 days from the first planting, you can add organic or organic fertilizer to help the plants grow faster. If you want large, healthy peppers with bright natural coloring, you will always need to keep the plant in a sunny location and water it daily.
If, on the contrary, there is no sun, the plant will become large but weak and will break easily, blocking the production of peppers. Pepper is a plant that needs a lot of nutrients , so remember to fertilize it at least once every 15 days.
After 25 days, the plants will already be large enough to be pruned and planted in separate pots. Take as many (smaller) pots as there are seedlings to bury. Fill them with moist, fertilized soil , make furrows and bury your plants. Always water regularly at least once a day . After a month you will start to see the first colorful peppers on your plants!
Tips for a Healthy, Lush Pepper Plant
To have a pepper plant that gives you lots of fruit, you must follow these tips.
Always remember that:
- you should water your pepper plants at least once a day and every day;
- the best time to water is early in the morning;
- The ideal temperature for growing peppers varies between 21° and 32°.
If you follow our advice and put into practice the technique that we have explained to you, you will have no problem: your pepper plants will grow strong and healthy but above all you will have an organic and abundant harvest.