Pepper is a beauty, the king of garden beds and tables. Of course, every summer resident hopes to successfully grow this miracle on his plot. But pepper makes very high demands on growing conditions. Proper feeding is especially important, and no one will argue that it is better to do this not with the help of chemicals, but with folk remedies.
What to feed?
The intensity with which peppers should be fertilized directly depends on the quality of the soil in which they grow. The poorer the soil, the more actively the plant must compensate for the lack of nutrients. Because pepper is a gourmand, and he has an excellent appetite. Peppers grown in a greenhouse require special care.
Of course, many gardeners use a complex of mineral fertilizers. But today we are increasingly turning to so-called grandmothers’ remedies and making sure that grandmothers knew what they were doing.
In general, modern summer residents are always ready to feed vegetables with improvised means, using coffee grounds, banana peels, egg shells, and potato peelings. But is that all folk remedies effective and harmless?
Video “Feeding”
From the video you will learn what is the best way to feed peppers.
Natural fertilizers
Many agricultural technicians are convinced that peppers do not need mineral fertilizers. Moreover: they have enough so-called green fertilizers. That is, in this case you can do just fine without humus, which has a reputation as a necessary thing when feeding plants. But all sorts of kitchen waste is what you need. This means we stop throwing eggshells, banana peels and all sorts of plant waste into the trash. We collect all this stuff, and there’s a heap of ashes in there too.
How is this “garbage” useful? Banana peel is a source of potassium. It can be dried and crushed into powder. If this powder is added to the soil, fertilizers containing potassium will no longer be required. You can prepare a tincture (infuse the peels of 2-3 bananas in 3 liters of water for three days) and water the plants with it.
Eggshells contain many microelements. It is effective to put it in compost. A tincture is also made from the shells: the crushed shells of 3-4 eggs are infused in 3 liters of warm water for three days. The jar should be in a dark place. This fertilizer is useful when growing seedlings. 
Peppers benefit from dairy products – those that are no longer suitable for food. Very good tinctures on stale bread.
Give the peppers some green tea. For this you will need leaves and flowers
- plantain;
- nettle;
- dandelion;
- woodlice;
- coltsfoot.
This silo is crushed and filled cold water. You need to infuse the herbs for a week. And then - a liter for each bush.
If you still think it is necessary to use bird droppings or manure, please, it will not harm the peppers. Chicken manure is diluted with water in a ratio of 1x5. Manure needs 1 kg ha 10 liters of water. These nutritional compositions will come in especially handy during flowering time.
Of course, feeding peppers with ash is useful. It makes plants more resilient, stimulates growth, and is a source of potassium and phosphorus. And what is very important, it makes any fruit tastier. A good result is obtained by adding ash to the holes when planting peppers - a handful per hole. Vegetable growers use an infusion: 1 tablespoon of ash per 2 liters of hot water, leave for 24 hours.
Iodine and yeast
We have all heard and read more than once that iodine is vital for humans. What about plants? Scientists do not believe that it is simply desperately necessary, for example, for garden crops. Nevertheless, it has been experimentally established that iodine is very useful for the growth of peppers. It also increases productivity and makes the fruits more tasty. These results are probably achieved due to improved metabolism, which is stimulated by the addition of iodine. 
In addition, iodine also works as an antiseptic in the garden, increasing plant resistance to diseases. You can stop the growth of the fungus by watering the plant with an iodine solution.
There is one thing: iodine needs to be used in small doses. 1-2 drops per liter of water is enough. You can also flavor this solution with 100 ml of whey.
Yeast feeding is still a curiosity, not known to everyone. However, it is very useful, because yeast contains
- phosphorus;
- nitrogen;
- organic iron;
- vitamins;
- minerals.
Yeast not only contributes to the development of the root system and green mass. They also activate the vital activity of those soil organisms that affect productivity. 
Despite all the positive aspects, yeast destroys potassium, so you need to prepare this fertilizer with the addition of ash.
You can use fresh yeast: leave 1 kg in 5 liters of water for 24 hours. Then the resulting solution should be mixed in 50 liters of water and used for irrigation.
Dry yeast is also suitable in the proportion of 1 packet per bucket of water. Here you need to add 2 tablespoons of sugar and leave the mixture for 2 hours. Then half a liter of solution should be diluted in 10 liters of water. It is enough to water the peppers with yeast fertilizer twice a season.
Ready mixes
Do you prefer not to conjure up all sorts of home remedies, but to trust the professionals? When it comes to the question of how to feed pepper seedlings, don’t folk remedies seem like a serious solution to you?
Gardeners who are experienced in growing peppers actively use ready-made mixtures. At different stages, certain compositions are needed. So, during the first feeding, the plant experiences a special need for nitrogen and potassium. Therefore, from ready-made formulations, the mixtures “Kemira-lux” (40 g per 20 liters of water) and GUMI Kuznetsov (2 tsp per bucket of water) are recommended. A solution of potassium nitrate is also suitable. You can prepare the following composition yourself:
- ammonium nitrate – 2 tsp.
- potassium sulfate – 3 tsp.
- superphosphate – 3 tbsp. l.
- 1 bucket of water
The mixtures listed are also suitable for the second feeding, but you will need twice as much of them. You can use “Kristalon” (20 g per bucket of water). 
Rules for fertilizing
When growing peppers, foliar feeding is not used. Everything we feed the plant with must be carefully poured at the root. Any accidental splashes that fall on the leaves must be washed off with water.
Pepper seedlings need to be “fed” twice: when the leaves begin to appear and 8-10 days before planting.
The first fertilizing contains nitrogen and potassium. In the second, phosphorus is added to them, as well as micro- and macroelements. 
When preparing the beds for planting peppers, add fertilizer to the soil. This can be superphosphate with potassium chloride or ash, or a solution of manure.
During the season, peppers can be fed twice a month, the first time two weeks after planting.
To prepare the solution you need warm water.
If the summer is cool and there are few sunny days, peppers need more potassium: add ash to liquid fertilizers.
To avoid a deficiency of microelements, it is worth “treating” the peppers with the Riga mixture once.
Signs of nutritional deficiency in plants
There is no need to systematically put into practice all the science of feeding peppers. You may not need the full theory, even if you got it from very reputable sources. You definitely need to add practice to theory: carefully observe the plants, and they themselves will tell you what exactly they lack for full development. Or maybe they got it in excess.
Have the leaves turned pale? And not only pale, but also yellow from the center to the edges? Are the peppers themselves thin and twisted? The diagnosis is nitrogen deficiency. Treatment is the use of mullein solution.
Leaves that look like an awl, dotted with yellow-gray dots are a sure sign of calcium deficiency. Symptoms include slow growth and poor root development. This means that fertilizing with nitrogen and potassium must be stopped urgently.
Are the bushes turning yellow and falling off, are the fruits small? And this is too much calcium. Abundant watering and fertilizers containing nitrogen will help. 
Yellow or white spots on the leaves indicate iron deficiency. As a rule, such a deficiency is experienced by peppers that are grown on unsuitable soil - calcareous or clay.
Peppers signal a lack of phosphorus by a bluish tint to the leaves. Subsequently, the leaves turn red and curl into a tube.
From the video you will learn which traditional methods are suitable for feeding.
Bell pepper grown in our country in the most different regions. Despite the fact that the crop is heat-loving, good yields when cultivated in greenhouses are obtained by gardeners in Siberia, the Urals, regions of North-West Russia, not to mention the more southern territories.
Using fertilizers, summer residents harvest large and juicy multi-colored fruits, as if proving to nature that anything can be grown even in harsh conditions. This is what we will talk about about proper feeding.
How to feed peppers after planting in the ground
Plants from the large nightshade family, which include and, require special care. Full-fledged fruits will form and ripen only if the plants have enough nutrition, necessary microelements and vitamins.Therefore, when growing crops, pay attention to the nutritional value of the soil, adding all the necessary fertilizers in advance. Each summer resident uses the options available to him, since some use mineral fertilizers, others strive to grow crops without “chemistry”.
There are different schemes for applying fertilizers to the soil before planting peppers:
- approximately 20 grams of potassium salt and 40 grams of superphosphate;
- 30 grams of superphosphate and the same amount of ash.
When planting peppers in the holes, you can add about 100-150 grams of humus. In well-fertilized soil, plants will be comfortable; at the initial stage of the growing season they will not experience nutritional deficiency.
IMPORTANT! All fertilizers, especially nitrogen ones, must be applied strictly according to the norms, avoiding an excess of components. This will negatively affect the development of peppers and productivity.
Immediately after planting seedlings on ridges or in a greenhouse, fertilizing is not carried out. The optimal time for the first “lunch” is 15-18 days after transplantation. At this time, you can use organic matter, but during the period of mass flowering and fruiting, peppers need potassium and phosphorus.
Signs of nutritional deficiencies
Recommendations from specialists are always general in nature, and first of all, the gardener should observe the plants. The appearance of the peppers, the color of the leaves, and stems can tell you what elements are missing in the seedlings’ diet.- Poor growth, blanching and yellowing of leaves from the main vein to the edges, falling off - all these signs indicate nitrogen deficiency. This component is vital for plants, but at the same time, oversaturation with nitrogen should be avoided, since then the peppers will intensively increase their green mass.
- An excess of nitrogen can lead to the fact that peppers will not be able to properly absorb other essential microelements, such as calcium. With its deficiency, gray or yellowish dots appear on the leaf blades, growth points begin to die, and the root system grows poorly. The leaves become awl-shaped and curl, and the peppers slow down in growth.
- The appearance of bluish spots on the leaves, and then a change in color from green to violet-red, is a signal that the peppers lack phosphorus. The leaves begin to curl, the stem becomes thinner, and the flowering of plants slows down. Typically, phosphorus deficiency appears in the middle of the growing season, when the first fruits have already been harvested, and the next flowering (fruiting of peppers occurs in waves) is very late.
- The curling of the leaves and the appearance of a light border on the contours indicates that the peppers require urgent feeding with potassium. Such phenomena can occur both in the first wave of flowering and later. The yellow border on the leaves dries out, falls off, and spots appear on the pepper fruits.
Attention! Potassium deficiency often occurs in peppers that are cultivated on peat or sandy soil.
On clay soils, as well as soils with a lot of lime, peppers often develop iron deficiency. This manifests itself in a change in the color of the leaf blades and the appearance of light spots between the veins. After some time, the veins themselves turn yellow, the leaves begin to dry out and die.
Having noticed any negative changes in the condition of plants, it is necessary to determine their cause as quickly as possible (most often it is a deficiency or excess of some components) and eliminate it.
Thus, when there is an excess of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers are required, and when there is an oversaturation of potassium, they are fed with ammophos. But more often there is a deficiency of components, and in these cases it is necessary to replenish the nutrition of the plants:
- during nitrogen starvation, give diluted mullein (1:10),
- the lack of phosphorus is compensated by adding superphosphate;
- potassium sulfate will help with the lack of this important substance for peppers;
- If there is a lack of iron or zinc, the best option would be to use Kemira Lux or Kemira Combi (spraying) for feeding.
It is advisable to alternate organic matter and mineral components, and also alternate root feeding and spraying.
The fertilizer application schedule is largely determined by the type of soil, its fertility, as well as the condition of the plants themselves. Peppers planted in small greenhouses can be fed less frequently - once every three weeks; for greenhouse plants the standard scheme is once every 14 days.
There is no need to rush with the first fertilizing if the peppers grow well after planting and if the soil has been well fed with all nutrients since autumn and spring.
After two weeks, you can feed the peppers with diluted mullein or poultry droppings (1:10 and 1:20). The next feeding will most likely be already during the period of the appearance of the ovaries (in two weeks) and for it it is better to use superphosphate and potassium sulfate (a tablespoon of the first component and a teaspoon of the second are diluted in a bucket of warm water).
Good results are obtained by foliar feeding - spraying on peach leaves. Options:
- to stimulate the growth of peppers, you will need to dilute a teaspoon of urea (the amount is given per bucket of water);
- to improve flowering and stimulate ovaries, boric acid is used (take a teaspoon per 10-liter container);
- During the period of fruit formation, spraying the bushes with a solution of superphosphate is suitable (you will need a teaspoon of fertilizer for half a bucket of water).
How to feed peppers during fruiting
The first fruits of pepper reach a state of technical maturity approximately 90-100 days after emergence. But the timing depends on the variety, with ripening taking up to 15-20 days.
At this time, peppers need additional feeding, as they are about to bloom again, form ovaries and fruits. The following are used as fertilizers:
- wood ash (spread over the soil surface);
- potassium salt and superphosphate (for 10 liters of water you need to take two teaspoons of the components);
- sodium humate solution (1 gram per bucket of water).
After the specified time, the composition is diluted in water (a liter of infusion per bucket) and watered over the peppers.
How to feed sweet peppers during flowering
The use of fertilizing compounds that are made at home and without “chemicals” allows gardeners not only to save on the purchase of expensive drugs, but also to grow an environmentally friendly crop.The difficulty is that mixtures are often prepared “by eye”, and therefore it is better to take smaller dosages than to allow an excess of components. Among the most popular means:
- ash (this component breaks all records, as it is used not only for fertilizing, but also for protecting garden crops from pests and diseases);
- boric acid (compositions using it have already been given above);
- banana peel;
- ammonia;
- potassium permanganate.
Ash is used in a variety of ways:
- scattered over the surface of the beds;
- added to holes when planting pepper seedlings;
- Infuse in water and water the plants, and also use the solution for foliar spraying.
Recently, many summer residents have begun to actively practice the use of fertilizers based on ordinary baker's yeast. “Live” products are used, as well as yeast in the form of dry powder. All recipes require the dosage to be observed and the solution to be infused.
- Approximately 100 grams of yeast (“live”) are taken into a bucket of warm water, then the mixture is infused for about a day and a half and watered over the peppers.
- Pour water (5 liters) into a container, add a little - up to 2 grams of ascorbic acid, sugar (two tablespoons is enough) and a spoonful of dry yeast powder. Mix everything, leave for a day, then dilute with water in a ratio of 1:10 and water the flowering peppers.
Sweet bell pepper, this is what this nightshade crop is called in our country, is an excellent vegetable that can be eaten raw and prepared from it as first and second courses. All of them are very piquant, with a pleasant aftertaste, so it is not so easy to grow such a vegetable in your summer cottage.
How to properly care for a plant so that the fruits are juicy and large?
Features of care during flowering
In the video - how to feed peppers during flowering:
The main condition for receiving good harvest and to avoid fungal diseases, the stem of the plant should dry out by night, and it remains completely dry at night. That is, you need to water in advance so that the moisture has time to evaporate.
It is necessary to feed the plant regularly during the set of flowers and growth; the following ingredients are the most useful for it:
You can purchase combined fertilizers, which already contain all of the listed elements, or you can feed each of them in turn yourself.
Features of flowering
Video of pepper spraying:
A little about pests
You can make an infusion from the ash, for example, take a liter of warm water in a glass, infuse it, strain, and spray the lower parts of the leaves with this solution from a spray bottle. This remedy is absolutely safe for humans, but helps get rid of the malicious pest. We also recommend that you read our article which will tell you.
All types of pepper are very responsive to fertilization. Regular fertilizing significantly increases productivity and improves appearance and the taste of the fruit. But excess nutrition often leads to the opposite effect. The plant grows green mass and practically does not form ovaries. In addition, a large amount of fertilizers can cause the accumulation of nitrates and other substances harmful to humans in fruits. It is necessary to approach feeding peppers especially thoughtfully during flowering and fruiting. What fertilizers to use during this period in order to increase the yield and not harm the plant and your family?
Subtleties of feeding during flowering and fruiting
During flowering and fruiting of peppers, both mineral and organic fertilizers are used for feeding. Various folk remedies also show good effectiveness.
Mineral fertilizers
Immediately after the start of flowering, peppers are fed with mineral fertilizers with a high content of potassium and phosphorus. To prepare the working mixture, dissolve in 10 liters of water:
- 5–8 g potassium;
- 8 g urea;
- 35–40 superphosphate.
The resulting solution is watered or sprayed on pepper plants at the rate of 1 liter per plant. Some gardeners advise reducing the concentration of active ingredients when carrying out foliar feeding, in order to avoid chemical burns of leaves and shoots. In any case, when spraying pepper with a solution of mineral fertilizers, it is better to first treat 1-2 plants and observe them for several days. If the experimental specimens feel good, then they begin to feed the entire plantation.
Foliar feeding of pepper is carried out only in dry and windless weather.
Fruiting peppers are fed with mineral fertilizers only when symptoms of nutrient deficiency appear, the main ones being changes in leaf color and slow ripening, as well as the appearance of small or crooked fruits. A mixture of superphosphate (1 tablespoon per bucket of water) and potassium sulfate (1 teaspoon per 10 liters of liquid) is well suited for this.
Peppers grown indoors are additionally fed with potassium and phosphorus after the first harvest.
During fruit ripening, peppers need sufficient calcium. Its deficiency often leads to the development of a dangerous disease - blossom end rot. Regular (once every 2-3 weeks) spraying of plants with a 0.2% solution of calcium nitrate will help to avoid such developments.
Organic fertilizers
Due to the high nitrogen content, organic fertilizers are used very carefully during flowering and fruiting of peppers. For plants planted in fertile soil, pre-filled with humus, a single application of fertilizer prepared from bird droppings or mullein is sufficient.
Bird droppings can be easily purchased at any specialty store.
Peppers growing in a greenhouse are additionally fed with organic matter after the first wave of fruits ripen.
There are many ways to apply manure to the soil. For peppers during the period of fruiting and flowering, watering with an infusion of mullein or bird droppings aged for a week is optimal. It is diluted:
- 10 times - when using cow manure;
- 20 times - when using bird droppings.
The resulting liquid is used for watering or spraying peppers. If desired, you can add wood ash to it.
Fertilizing with industrial organic fertilizers made on the basis of potassium or sodium humate also has good effectiveness. These substances, obtained by processing peat or manure, help increase the number of ovaries, accelerate the ripening of fruits and improve their marketable qualities.
Folk remedies
When growing peppers, one should not forget about traditional methods of feeding. Many of them are highly effective and practically harmless to humans.
Table: folk methods of feeding peppers during flowering and fruiting
| Drug name | Methods of application |
| Wood ash | Wood ash is scattered under pepper bushes and watered generously |
| Boric acid | 5 g boric acid dissolve in a small amount of hot water and add cold water to a volume of 5 liters. The prepared solution is sprayed on pepper plantings during flowering and mass ripening of fruits. |
| Iodine | Water or spray the peppers with a weakly concentrated (15–20 drops per 10 liters of water) solution of alcohol tincture of iodine. Consumption of the drug is 1 liter per plant. To enhance the effect, you can add milk to the iodine solution. |
| Nettle infusion | The cut nettles are poured with water and left to ferment for several days. Then the liquid is drained and diluted 10 times with water. To neutralize the odor, valerian tincture is added to it. Peppers are watered with the prepared fertilizer during flowering. |
| Eggshell | A three-liter jar is filled with finely crushed shells about halfway, topped up with water and put in a dark place until a characteristic hydrogen sulfide smell appears. The prepared solution is watered or sprayed on the pepper while setting and filling the fruit. |
| Yeast | 200 grams of raw yeast are diluted in a liter of warm water with a small amount of sugar and left for one hour. The fermented solution is diluted in 5 liters of water and flowering plants are sprayed with it. Some gardeners replace water with milk. |
| Bread kvass | Place stale bread in a container with a lid, fill it with warm water and add jam or sugar to speed up fermentation. After 10 days, the kvass is ready for use. It is diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10 and used to water peppers. |
Video: preparing green fertilizer for feeding peppers
It is almost impossible to get a good pepper harvest without applying fertilizers. But in everything you need to observe moderation. During flowering and fruiting, chemical fertilizers are used with extreme caution and, whenever possible, they are replaced with time-tested traditional methods of feeding.
The fundamental components of caring for any plant are watering and fertilizing. To get a good harvest of peppers, you need to know how often to water and what to feed under certain conditions.
Watering regime for growing in greenhouses and open ground
Pepper is of southern origin, so water it with warm water. To do this, install a barrel in the open air - pour water yourself or collect rainwater in it. Water with water heated by the sun.
To ensure your peppers grow well, water regularly:
- Before the period of budding and full flowering begins, water every 7 days, adding 5-6 liters of water per 1 m² of area.
- When fruit sets, more moisture is required. Water every 4 days, using 6 liters of water for the same volume of area. More infrequent watering provokes dropping of fruits. If you do not have the opportunity to water so often (distance from summer cottage), to maintain moisture, mulch the soil around the plants with rotted straw (a layer of about 10 cm).
After each watering, ventilate the greenhouse to avoid the development of fungal infections. When grown in open ground When watering, rely on natural precipitation.
It is preferable to water in the early morning or evening after sunset. Apply water strictly at the root, avoiding contact with the leaves and, in particular, the ovary and ripening fruits.
How to feed peppers in a greenhouse
Is it possible to feed peppers with chicken droppings?
The answer is simple: not only is it possible, but it is necessary! Two weeks after planting the pepper seedlings in the greenhouse, they should be fed with a solution of chicken manure infusion (at this time it is necessary to supply the plants with nitrogen). Dilute the infusion with water in a ratio of 0.5 liters per 10 liters of water, add 20 g of superphosphate to the solution and add under the peppers.
Feeding peppers before fruiting
How to feed sweet peppers during flowering and fruit set? The following composition would be an excellent supplement:
To prepare a working solution for 10 liters of water, take 30 g of superphosphate, 20 g of potassium sulfate and 10 g of ammonium nitrate.
Before fruiting starts, feed the peppers every 15 days.
How to feed peppers during fruiting
During the fruiting period, feed with the following solution: per 10 liters of water, 10 g of ammonium nitrate and 200 g wood ash.
It is beneficial to alternate fertilizing with mineral fertilizers and organic matter. Dilute fresh cow manure with water in a ratio of 1 to 3 and leave for three days. After fermentation, dilute the infusion with water 1 to 10, add 1 liter of fertilizer to each bush.
Feeding peppers in open ground
When growing peppers in a garden bed in open ground, you will need 2-4 feedings per season.
How to feed peppers after planting soil
Be sure to feed the pepper a couple of weeks after transplanting into open ground:
- Use a solution of chicken manure infusion at a concentration of 1 to 20.
- A solution of mineral fertilizers is suitable: fill a ten-liter bucket with water and dilute 30 g of superphosphate, 25 g of potassium sulfate (potassium is necessary, but the culture absolutely does not tolerate chlorine, so potassium chloride cannot be used) and 15 g of ammonium nitrate.
- You can use a ready-made complex mineral fertilizer, which contains the above elements.
How to feed peppers during ovary
When setting fruit, use the same mineral fertilizers, but in a different concentration: for 10 liters of water we take 25 g of potassium sulfate and 10 g of ammonium nitrate and superphosphate.
Apply other fertilizers as needed:
- If the leaves curl and dry around the edges, you need to feed them with potassium;
- If you notice a purple tint on the back of the leaves, add phosphorus to the soil;
- With a lack of nitrogen, the leaf blades become smaller and acquire a grayish tint;
- A lack of magnesium is indicated by the appearance of a marbled tint on the leaves.
- If there is a general slowdown in growth rates, feed with organic matter or complex mineral fertilizers (Agricola, Uniflor-rost, Gomel).
Before applying any fertilizer, water the soil with clean water the day before to protect it from causing burns to the root system.
How to feed peppers during fruiting in August and September using folk remedies
In addition to, so to speak, classic organics (a solution of mullein infusion or chicken droppings), other fertilizers prepared according to folk recipes are used.
How to feed bell peppers with yeast
Yeast feeding is used to stimulate growth and increase resistance to diseases and pests
When applying fertilizer to the soil, yeast fungi contribute to the activation of microorganisms that affect productivity. However, they take potassium from the soil, so wood ash should be added at the same time.
- Take 1 kg of fresh yeast and steep in 5 liters of warm water for 24 hours, then stir in 50 liters of water and simply pour over the pepper.
- If you have dry yeast, dissolve the contents of one packet in 10 liters of warm water, add 2 tablespoons of sugar, for fermentation it is enough to leave for 2 hours. For 10 liters of water you will need 0.5 liters of solution, water it. We apply this fertilizing only once.
How to treat peppers with iodine for diseases
An iodine solution will help protect pepper plantings from diseases. Alcohol iodine can easily be found in any first aid kit. Dissolve just 2 drops of iodine in 2 liters of water or whey, carefully water the plants, avoiding getting fertilizer on the stems and leaves. Carry out the treatment as soon as the plants take root after transplanting to a permanent place of growth.
How to feed peppers with ash for a rich harvest
Fertilizing with wood ash will help with potassium deficiency. You can add a handful of dry ash under each bush. A solution is used: dilute 1 tablespoon of wood ash in 2 liters of hot water and leave for a day and water. Fertilizing is very useful during the fruiting period, improving taste.
Feeding with fermented grass
Herbal infusion is an alternative to mullein or chicken manure infusion and is used to saturate the soil with nitrogen. Young grass is used (dandelions, nettles, lawn clippings, or even weeds from the site). Fill a bucket with silage and fill it to the top with water, the mixture ferments for about a week or two until the unpleasant smell comes out. Then dilute 1 glass of infusion in 5 liters of water and add 1 liter of liquid under each bush.
Banana peel feeding
Banana peels are rich in potassium, which is widely used in vegetable growing. Chop dry or fresh peels from two large bananas and add 3 liters of water. After three days, strain the infusion and water the plants.
Feeding from eggshells
Eggshells are a source of calcium and, in small quantities, phosphorus. Chop the shells of 3-4 eggs and add 3 liters of water. Let the solution sit for three days, stirring occasionally, until it becomes cloudy and begins to emit a specific “aroma.” Before use, strain, dilute one glass of infusion in 3 liters of water and pour over. Due to the content of a large number of microelements, fertilizing is especially relevant for seedlings and young plants.
So, when growing peppers, either in a greenhouse or in open ground, you cannot do without fertilizing. They can be prepared literally from improvised means or use complex mineral fertilizers. It is important to maintain proportions and apply fertilizers in a timely manner.
How to feed peppers during flowering and fruiting video: