How to grow peppers in a greenhouse and get a high yield

Getting a consistently high yield of peppers in the open ground in Russian weather conditions is a difficult task. This thermophilic culture loves moisture, light and space. Therefore, the most effective way is to plant pepper in a greenhouse. This measure greatly simplifies the care, allows you to maintain the desired temperature and humidity.

The initial stage - the choice of a place and planting material

The choice of location depends largely on yield: a lack of sunlight, heavy soils, a close location of groundwater will adversely affect the future crop. For beginners, before growing peppers in a greenhouse, you need to inspect the site and choose a sunny or slightly shaded place to install the greenhouse. The choice of material for the greenhouse can also play a decisive role. Experimentally found that Bulgarian pepper is best developed under the film. And the quantity and quality of the fruits grown under the blue and red film is much higher than under the usual transparent or white.

Do not forget about the preparation of the soil. It is fertilized with organic fertilizers: compost, humus or manure. Mineral fertilizers are refined in the early spring.

Before growing peppers in a greenhouse, you must carefully choose a variety. Specially developed varieties and hybrids will help to grow specimens of excellent quality even in the northern regions. In this case the seedling method is applied, and the time for sowing is very early: January - February. In the middle belt, seedlings are grown, beginning in February - March.

Landing technology

In containers or warm greenhouses, seed is sown to a depth of 1 cm to 1.5 cm. A compulsory condition is good drainage and nutritive soil. Overmoistening, as well as insufficient moisture, are unacceptable for young shoots. The temperature is maintained to 25-27 degrees, after emergence, it is reduced to 18 degrees within one week, and then again brought to 28 degrees in the afternoon on sunny days. If it's overcast in the street, the temperature can drop from 20 to 23 degrees.

Before growing peppers in a greenhouse in a permanent place, you need to prepare seedlings, which will take from 50 to 70 days. During this period, young plants require abundant watering and feeding. Transplant to a permanent place is made when the threat of spring frosts passes. To make the pepper blossom and bear fruit, the plants are planted at a distance of 15-25 cm, between the ridges leave 30-40 cm. For transplantation, strong healthy specimens are suitable for a greenhouse, with thick leaves and formed inflorescences.

Neighborhood with other cultures

For those gardeners who want to know how to grow peppers in a greenhouse, the question remains open: Can it be combined with other plants? A professional approach involves growing without neighbors with tomatoes and cucumbers. But the lack of space makes some gardeners put together cucumbers and peppers in a greenhouse. In this case, one can not expect a high yield, as the growing conditions for these crops are different. In addition, the cucumber strings occupy all the free space in the greenhouse, and hence they take the light, without which the peppers simply can not bear fruit. The most beneficial neighborhood - tomatoes and peppers. These crops occupy different levels in the greenhouse: tomatoes - upper, peppers - lower. After pruning the lower leaves of tomatoes, all the lower space is freed, and the peppers feel fine in the same area as tomatoes.