How to prepare soil for peppers and cucumbers: seedlings will grow strong and healthy

Experienced gardeners know that cucumbers and peppers are extremely demanding of soil composition.

If the soil is not fertile and of good quality, the seedlings will grow weak and sickly.

Therefore, it is worth considering how to properly prepare the soil for these vegetable crops.

What recipes should summer residents take note of?

For strong pepper seedlings

If you want your pepper harvest to be glorious, you should prepare high-quality soil, reminds Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication BelNovosti, a landscape designer and agronomist.

You will need to take one part of sand and one part of turf for two parts of peat. Also add 30 grams of ammonium nitrate, 40 grams of potassium sulfate and 60 grams of superphosphate to the mixture.

You can also try another option. You need to take two parts of turf for three parts of compost. The composition of such soil is incredibly nutritious. Some summer residents use another recipe. For four parts of peat, take two parts of turf and one part of prepared sawdust (well rotted) and humus.

For good cucumber seedlings

In order for cucumber seedlings to grow healthy, you need to take three parts of turf, rotted compost, leaf soil and one part of vermiculite.

You can try another option. To do this, take two parts of peat with humus and mix with one part of sawdust. Also, do not forget to add a spoonful of superphosphate, urea and ash with potassium sulfate.

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• 20 February 2023

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