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A true southerner, a lover of the sun and warmth, sweet pepper, has long settled in gardens and vegetable gardens. Each gardener, to the best of his ability, tries to get a harvest of useful vegetables. Gardeners who get an early harvest are especially proud. A correctly selected variety will provide this opportunity.
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Boneta pepper variety - early ripening, 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 deeply deepen, maximum 1 cm. Tighten with foil or cover with glass. At a temperature of +25 degrees, the first shoots will appear in a week. The Boneta variety is distinguished by the appearance of friendly mass shoots. Subject to the temperature and light conditions, you will get strong seedlings of the Boneta variety, which in May will be ready for transplanting into open ground or into a greenhouse.
After onions, cucumbers, pumpkin, cabbage, carrots, and squash, peppers grow best. After tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes, as a rule, it is not possible to get a decent harvest. Boneta sweet pepper grows up to 50 - 55 cm. The bush is powerful, strong. Planting scheme of this variety 35x40 cm. 4 plants per 1 sq. M. Be sure to tie up the bushes, otherwise you cannot avoid breaking off the branches with fruits. In the photo, Bonet's variety:
Regular care of peppers is watering, loosening and feeding. Do not use cold water for irrigation. Warm, settled water with a temperature of +25 degrees is best suited. Loosening is also an obligatory ritual in the care of peppers. Peppers need regular feeding. After the seedlings have been planted in the ground, after 2 weeks, carry out the first feeding with nitrogen fertilizers. So, the plant will build up green mass and a 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, grass cuttings without seeds, sawdust or peat. Goal: to reduce height weeds, retain moisture, which is especially important in the heat. Some tips for growing pepper are shown in the video:
The first fruits of the Boneta variety will appear in July. In technical maturity, they are ivory or slightly greenish-white, in biological maturity - orange or bright red. The shape is trapezoidal. The fruit weight of the Boneta variety is from 70 - 200 g, they have 3 - 4 chambers, the thickness of the fruit walls is 6 - 7 mm. Boneta pepper fruits are glossy, dense. They tolerate transportation well. Productivity: from 1 square meter 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 the first and second courses, in salads, for freezing and for preparation for the winter. 50 to 80 percent of the vitamins are stored in processed peppers.
Fresh peppers are a storehouse of vitamins and minerals, they will restore and rejuvenate the body, improve the condition of the skin, hair, nails, and relieve depression. Improves 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, thin the blood, and prevent the formation of blood clots. For those with low blood pressure, you can eat a vegetable, but with caution.
Boneta red pepper in technical ripeness, I planted it last year and sowed it this one too.