When choosing salad varieties that can grow not only in the south, but also in the northern regions, you should pay attention to the Bull Heart pepper variety offered by the Siberian agricultural company Uralsky Dachnik.
Description
"Bull's Heart" is an early ripe variety that allows it to be grown outdoors in the Siberian region. The height of the bush is 50 cm.
For some reason, breeders are very fond of calling varieties of various cultures "bull heart". Sweet pepper "Bull heart", tomato variety "Bull heart", cherries "Bull heart". Moreover, if the first two really look like a heart (anatomical, not stylized), then sweet cherry has nothing in common with this organ, except for its large size.
The thickness of the walls of this variety reaches 1 cm, and the weight is up to 200 g. Ripe fruits of a deep red color.
Since the variety is fruitful and the fruit is quite heavy, the bushes may need a garter. It is better to stick the support for tying next to the plant at the same time as planting seedlings, so as not to disturb the brittle stems and roots of the pepper once again.
The yield of pepper can be increased if the fruits are removed unripe at the stage of the so-called technical ripeness.
In this case, the fruits must be put to ripening. Sometimes you can find the term "ripening". This is the same.
How to put on ripening correctly
It should be noted that, as in the photo, the pepper will not ripen.
When ripe in the open air, the fruits begin to wither.
For each row of green fruits, one ripe vegetable must be placed. Instead of pepper, you can put a ripe tomato (there is a risk that it will start to rot) or a ripe apple. After filling, the box is closed.
The bottom line is that the ripe fruit releases ethylene, which stimulates the unripe peppers to ripen.
In this case, the newspaper will delay the spread of ethylene and the fruits will not ripen. Due to the volatilization of ethylene, the drawer must not be kept open.
For ripening, peppers should be with long tails. In the process, the fruit will still pull nutrients from the remaining cuttings. It is necessary to check the bookmark every 2-3 days. If the paper is damp, replace it. Instead of newspapers, you can use paper napkins.
The box can also be replaced with a plastic bag lined with paper.
While the first batch of peppers ripens in the box, the second part of the fruit has time to form and fill on the bush, thus increasing the yield.
Bovine heart pepper is a universal variety, suitable for salads, canning, culinary processing and freezing. For a salad, the most delicious pepper is one that has just been picked from the garden, where it has ripened on the bush. For preservation for the winter, ripe in a box is suitable.
The advantages of this variety also include good keeping quality. When stored in a refrigerator or subfield with an air temperature of 0-2 ° C, peppers can lie a month longer than tomatoes or eggplants.
Large crops can be stored in boxes with calcined river sand. Wrapping paper or newspaper is placed at the bottom of the box and the pods are laid, sprinkled with sand. It is not necessary to wash before laying, only to remove surface contamination.
Resourceful gardeners, who lack space to store a large crop of pepper, have found a very interesting way to reduce the volume occupied by the fruit.
Frozen pyramid
Cut out the core in mature large fruits. We do not throw away the core, it will still come in handy.Dip each pod, one at a time, in boiling water for 30 seconds.
After cooling, we put the peppers one into one, thus forming a pyramid. It is not necessary to be zealous with pushing the pods into each other. Cooked peppers are soft enough and easily stick inside each other.
We put the finished pyramid in a plastic bag, fill the remaining voids with a core. Such a pyramid takes up little space in the freezer, allowing you to save even a large harvest. In winter, thawed peppers will be indistinguishable from fresh ones.
Testimonials
More often they touch fresh fruits in a salad, as with "Bull's Heart" it is difficult to refrain from just eating fresh fruit right away.
