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A true southerner, a lover of the sun and warmth, sweet pepper, has long settled in gardens and orchards. Each gardener, to the best of his ability, tries to get a harvest of a healthy vegetable. Gardeners who receive an early harvest are especially proud. The right variety will provide such an opportunity.
Description
The Bonet pepper variety is early ripe, 85-90 days pass from germination to the appearance of the first fruits. Seeds for seedlings must be sown in February. Make up the soil mixture for seedlings of Bonet pepper from soil, humus, peat. You can add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of wood ash per 1 kg of prepared soil. Spread the earth in containers in which you will grow seedlings, water well, plant seeds. Do not deepen strongly, by a maximum of 1 cm. Tighten with a film or cover with glass. At a temperature of +25 degrees, the first shoots will appear in a week. The Bonet variety is distinguished by the appearance of friendly mass shoots. Subject to the temperature and light conditions, get strong seedlings of the Bonet variety, which in May will be ready for transplanting into open ground or into a greenhouse.
After onions, cucumbers, pumpkins, cabbages, carrots and zucchini, peppers grow best. After tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes, as a rule, it is not possible to get a decent harvest. Sweet pepper Boneta grows up to 50 – 55 cm. The bush is powerful, strong. The scheme of planting plants of this variety 35×40 cm. 4 plants per 1 sq.m. Be sure to tie up the bushes, otherwise you cannot avoid breaking branches with fruits. In the photo, the Boneta variety:
Regular care for peppers is watering, loosening and top dressing. Do not use cold water for irrigation. Warm, settled water at a temperature of +25 degrees is best suited. Loosening is also an obligatory ritual in the care of peppers. Peppers need regular feeding. After planting the seedlings in the ground, after 2 weeks, carry out the first fertilizing with nitrogen fertilizers. So, the plant will increase the green mass and developed root system. During the period of fruit formation, you need to feed with phosphorus fertilizers. It is better to use bird droppings for feeding. It is insisted for a week, and then diluted with water 1:10. It is also very good to use mulch. The aisles are covered with straw, mowed grass without seeds, sawdust or peat. Purpose: to reduce the growth of weeds, to retain moisture, which is especially important in the heat. Some tips for growing peppers are shown in the video:
The first fruits of the Bonet variety will appear in July. In technical maturity they are ivory or slightly greenish-white, in biological maturity they are orange or bright red. The shape is trapezoidal. The mass of fruits of the Boneta variety is from 70 – 200 g, they have 3-4 chambers, the thickness of the fruit walls is 6 – 7 mm. The fruits of the Bonet pepper are glossy, dense. They tolerate transportation well. Productivity: from 1 sq.m you can get 3,3 kg of peppers. Fruits with a pleasant, delicate taste and peppery aroma are suitable for universal use in cooking: in first and second courses, in salads, for freezing and in preparations for the winter. 50-80 percent of the vitamins are retained in processed peppers.
Fresh peppers are a storehouse of vitamins and microelements, they will restore and rejuvenate the body, improve the condition of the skin, hair, nails, and relieve depression. Improve appetite and digestion, pepper contains fiber. Calorie content is extremely low 24 calories per 100 g of product. Eating pepper in food can lower blood pressure, thins the blood, and prevents the formation of blood clots. Who has low blood pressure, you can eat a vegetable, but with caution.