Will you be raking the harvest with a shovel: what tricks experienced gardeners use when growing peppers
Pepper is a southern plant, so not everyone can grow it in the middle zone.
Seasoned summer residents shared their secrets in cultivating this crop. You can use them regardless of what kind of pepper grows in your beds - sweet or bitter.
It is necessary to start from the beginning, that is, from the moment of planting pepper seedlings in the ground. Do not even think of deepening the seedlings, acting by analogy with tomatoes: this will not lead to anything good.
By the way, about seedlings: if they have blossomed and even started to set fruit, there is no reason to worry.
Once in the greenhouse, the plants will quickly "come to their senses" and the fruits that have set will begin to grow actively. However, it is not recommended to plant plants with flowers and ovaries in open ground - however, it is up to you to decide.
You need to find a place between the rows for calendula or marigolds.
They will help you cope with leaf-eating and soil pests of pepper, the main thing is to choose low-growing varieties.
Basil and coriander also cope well with this task, and the latter, like parsley, also attracts pollinating insects to the pepper.
Peels left over from eaten bananas and apples can also be used as bait for pollinating insects.
If you want to get a truly decent harvest from your plot, do not forget to prune the peppers during the growing season.
It is worth putting strongly elongated shoots under the knife, as well as shoots located below the main fork of the stem and branches inside the crown that are shaded.
And finally, to ensure that the plants continue to produce new fruits, regularly pick off the old ones.
