Proper feeding of pepper seedlings is the key to a rich harvest. How and when to feed pepper with urea Diagnosis of pepper when fertilizing

To get a decent harvest of sweet peppers at your summer cottage, it is not enough to simply grow seedlings and plant them in the garden. Good care is required, which includes fertilizing with organic and mineral fertilizers, treating pepper plants with special preparations against pests and diseases.

Pepper needs mainly nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers.
Let's figure out at what stage of the growing season to feed and what substances and elements they should contain.

What fertilizers should be applied to peppers and when?

First, let's decide on the timing of adding nutrients. We are interested in fertilizing at the seedling stage, immediately after planting peppers in the ground or in a greenhouse, during flowering and after fruit set.
The technology for growing sweet peppers is very similar to that of tomatoes, but peppers are more demanding of soil moisture and fertility.

Mineral fertilizers for pepper

The plants themselves will often tell you what fertilizer to apply to peppers - by the condition of the leaves, stems and fruits.

• If the leaves of pepper plants curl up and a drying edge appears on them, then the plant does not have enough potassium. Apply potassium carefully, without excess, so as not to harm the plants. For this purpose, there are such fertilizers as, for example, potassium monophosphate, potassium magnesium, potassium humate, etc.
• If the leaves completely or their lower part suddenly begin to acquire a purple tint, then this is a lack of phosphorus. Moreover, there may be enough of it in the soil, but due to cool weather the plant cannot absorb it. If the air temperature is above +15 degrees and the leaves are purple, then feel free to fertilize with phosphorus, using, for example, superphosphate. If the leaves are purple and the weather is cool, then feed the leaves, since in such weather little is absorbed through the roots.
• A lack of magnesium is indicated by the marbled color of the foliage. In this case, you can apply a complex fertilizer with a good magnesium content.

2 weeks before the intended planting of pepper seedlings, a complex fertilizer containing NPK must be added to the soil. Suitable, for example, is AVA fertilizer for seedlings, Agricola-Forward, Fertika Lux or from the Uniflor series - -growth, -micro.

Feeding peppers after planting in the ground

You can start fertilizing pepper no earlier than it has become accustomed to its new location, which is 10-14 days from planting the seedlings in a greenhouse or open ground.

• First feeding. 1 teaspoon of urea + 1 teaspoon of superphosphate is diluted in 10 liters of water. After dissolution, apply half a liter under the root for each bush. Fertilizing is carried out only after watering the plants (to avoid burns to the roots).
• Second feeding. It is carried out during the period of mass flowering of pepper. 1 tsp urea + 1 tsp. potassium salt (or potassium sulfate) + 1 matchbox of superphosphate per 10 liters of water. Consumption rate of working solution: 1 liter per bush.
• Third feeding. When the fruits are full, but have not yet begun to ripen. Dilute 2 tsp. superphosphate + 2 tsp potassium sulfate per 10 liters of water. 1 liter for each bush.

Feeding peppers with chicken droppings

For this feeding, take chicken manure and dilute it with water in a ratio of 1:10. Now this infusion should ferment in the sun for 2 weeks. In any case, the water temperature should not be lower than +20 degrees.

Next, this infusion is diluted another 1 to 10 and you can feed the peppers with this solution. Fertilizers are always applied after watering so as not to burn the roots of the plants. For each bush, it is enough to add a half-liter jar of diluted infusion.

Peppers are fertilized with chicken droppings 3-4 times per season.

Fertilizing pepper with ash

You can feed peppers with ash throughout the season, as it improves the taste of the fruit and solves the problem of potassium deficiency in the plant. In addition to potassium, almost the entire periodic table is present in the ash.

They use it in dry form - simply sprinkling ash directly on top of the plants, which also helps fight various pests, such as slugs. So also as an ash infusion, in which 500 grams of ash are poured into 10 liters of water and infused, stirring occasionally.

When people ask me what to add to the hole when planting peppers, I always advise adding a handful of ash. The microelements contained in it are enough for the plant to fully develop at first.

According to the reviews of many summer residents on the garden forum, the following fertilizers are also most successful for peppers:

Fertilizer for peppers during flowering

1 kg of nettle + 1 kg of mullein + 1 glass of wood ash, this mixture ferments for a week in the sun, then 1 liter of this infusion is added to a watering can and the pepper plants are watered. Consumption: 1 liter per 1 bush

Fertilizer for pepper during fruit growth

First: for 10 liters of water - 1 kg of chicken manure, after fermenting for 3-4 days, add 1 matchbox of nitroammophoska. For 1 plant - 0.5 liters after watering with regular water. Or for 10 liters of water - 1 tbsp. spoon of fertilizer Signor Tomato. Consumption rate: for 1 plant - 1 liter.

The second feeding is 14 days after the first: 50 g of Ideal fertilizer per 10 liters of water. Consumption rate: per 1 square meter - 5 liters of solution.

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First cast: pour 1 bucket of mushy bird droppings into a 100-liter barrel and pour two glasses of nitrophoska, add water and mix well. After three to five days, before fertilizing, the solution is stirred and watered 1-2 liters per plant. Or pour 10 tbsp into a barrel with a capacity of 100 liters. liquid fertilizer "Agricola - Vegeta", stir well and water 1 liter per plant.

12 days after this feeding, another feeding is done.

Second cast: pour 1 bucket of mullein, 0.5 buckets of bird droppings into a barrel and pour 1 glass of urea, add water and mix well. After 3-5 days, the solution is stirred and watered with 5-6 liters per 1 sq.m. Or, pour 0.5 liters (bottle) of “Effecton” into a barrel, pour 5 liters per 1 sq.m.

Every experienced gardener knows well that peppers love to eat, which means they need feeding more than anyone else. The quality and volume of the harvest depend entirely on the care of the plant and how correctly and thoroughly it is fertilized.

Feeding pepper seedlings

Before planting a vegetable, you need to prepare the soil. Peat compost is best suited for this - 3-4 kg per 1 sq. m. m of soil. It can also be fertilized with straw and nitrogen supplements.

The soil should be well loosened, as peppers love such soil and grow better in it. If the soil is filled with air, the roots are easily saturated with oxygen, which stimulates the overall development of the plant, and accordingly it begins to grow faster. Also, in soil saturated with oxygen, beneficial microorganisms work more actively, providing the plant with the necessary nutrition.

The next stage of feeding peppers involves introducing useful substances into the earthen holes just before placing the seedlings in them.

1. A very useful mixture of organics and minerals, consisting of 200-300 g of humus or peat, 5-10 g of superphosphate and the same amount of potassium salt.
2. A mixture of 30-40 g of superphosphate and 15 g of potassium chloride per 1 sq. meter of soil.
3. A mixture of 30-40 g of superphosphate per glass of ordinary wood ash.
4. Mix 0.5 liters of mullein and 10 liters of water, heat the mixture to 35 degrees and pour about 1 liter into each hole.

Feeding peppers after planting

During the summer season, peppers need to be fertilized quite often. It all depends on the condition and fertility of the soil, so you can carry out approximately three to five feedings. What substances does pepper need most during different periods of growth?

• This plant needs nitrogen most before the flowering period and during fruit ripening. Its deficiency is shown to the gardener by green upper leaves with a pale tint and yellowed or dead lower leaves.
• Pepper has the greatest need for phosphorus when it is just beginning to develop and the not yet fully developed root system is not able to ensure its full supply from the soil.
• The plant needs potassium most from the moment of fruit set until the very end of fruit ripening.
• But at the end of summer, when fruits begin to actively form, it needs water most of all. Insufficient moisture sharply reduces harvest volume. Depending on the air temperature and the amount of precipitation, you need to water the plants once a week or a week and a half. It is necessary to stop watering 1.5-2 weeks before harvesting.

Fertilizers must be dissolved in the water with which you water the peppers, but it is better not to overdo it with them, because all excess fertilizers will settle in the fruits in the form of nitrates.
The solution of water and fertilizer should be warm - 22-24°C. Each bush usually requires a liter of solution.

They begin to feed the pepper 1.5-2 weeks after the seedlings are in the ground, and so on throughout the entire growth period. The plant has already become relatively well established in the soil, and the roots are looking for useful and nutrients.

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Feeding peppers growing in open ground

1. For the first feeding, you can take 10 g of urea and 5 g of superphosphate, dilute this in a ten-liter bucket of water. After stirring the solution well, carefully pour 1 liter of it under each seedling, being careful not to get it on the leaves.
2. The second feeding can be done when the first buds are tied and begin to ripen. Since at this moment the plants most feel the lack of potassium, you need to take it in the amount of 1 tsp, add the same amount of urea and 2 tbsp. l. superphosphate, stir it all in a bucket of water and pour a liter of solution under each seedling.
3. Next time you can fertilize as soon as the first beautiful peppers ripen. You need to dilute 2 tsp in a bucket of water. superphosphate and the same amount of potassium salt. Water with the resulting mixture in the same way as the first two times.

Infused young nettle with added minerals nourishes peppers very well. Fill the container to the top with nettles and fill with water. It needs to sit for a week, and then fermentation will begin. When the nettles fall down (about a couple of days after the start of fermentation), the resulting liquid can be strained and a small amount of mineral fertilizer can be added. This infusion is completely harmless, if you do not add minerals, you can water the plants with it every 10 days.

Fertilizing peppers in greenhouses

The patterns for growing outdoors and in greenhouses are different from each other, so you need to feed them in a greenhouse a little differently.

1. The plants should be fed for the first time on the 15th day from the moment they are planted in the ground. You need to take bird droppings and clean water in a ratio of 1:15. Add mullein with clean water in a ratio of 1:10. All this must be mixed and water each bush with 1 liter of the resulting mixture.
2. Feed the second time after flowering. Just like the first time, you need to dilute mullein with water and you can additionally add mineral fertilizers.
3. The same fertilizing should be done again as soon as the first crop ripens.

Another fertilizing can be done only if the soil is too depleted. To prepare the fertilizer, superphosphate and minerals are taken.

If you follow all the rules for caring for peppers, water them on time and pamper them with healthy fertilizers, then you will have a bountiful, good-quality, juicy and very tasty harvest.

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It is very important to feed pepper seedlings during their growth so that they grow into healthy plants in the future. Already after the first dose of fertilizer, you will be able to see its beneficial effect on pepper seedlings. But this does not mean that you can stop and no longer fertilize the plants.

Fertilizers such as urea and superphosphate are most suitable for feeding seedlings. And it is strictly forbidden to feed seedlings with potassium chloride, this can destroy young seedlings.

Feeding seedlings takes place in the following order:

When the first leaves appear on the seedlings, pick them and after 2-3 weeks the first feeding of pepper seedlings is carried out. For 10 liters of warm water, take 30-40 g of superphosphate, leave for 24 hours, then add 10 g of ammonium nitrate, 30 g of potassium sulfate and 10 g of urea.
Before you begin to introduce fertilizer, the seedlings must be sprayed with water and the soil watered.
Apply 50-100 ml of solution to each seedling and water again with a small amount of water. This is done in order to wash away any droplets of solution that accidentally fall from the leaves.
An excellent fertilizer for pepper seedlings is bird droppings and slurry. Litter is diluted with clean water in a ratio of 1 to 5, and manure - 1 to 10.
Microelements in combination with water are also successfully used as fertilizer. These can be zinc sulfate (0.5-1.5 g per 10 liters of water), boric acid (1-2 g per 10 liters of water), potassium-manganese (1.5-2 g per 10 liters of water), copper vitriol or ash (per 10 liters of water 2 g of vitriol or 200 g of ash).

After the seedlings are planted in open ground, fertilizing continues throughout the entire growth of the plant until the first fruits appear on the bushes and their ripening.

Fertilizing peppers in open ground is carried out in several stages:

The first feeding of pepper is carried out 15-20 days after planting the seedlings in open ground. During this time, the seedlings will have time to take root, grow stronger and be ready to accept fertilizer. For the first feeding, you need to dilute 5 g of superphosphate and 10 g of urea and add it to a bucket of water. Then you need to thoroughly mix the solution and pour 1 liter of water under each seedling. It is advisable to do this carefully so as not to get on the leaves of the bush.
The next feeding is carried out during the period of setting and ripening of pepper buds. At this time, pepper most needs an element such as potassium. It is necessary to dilute 1 tsp. potassium in a bucket of water, add 1 tsp. urea and 2 tbsp. l. superphosphate. Mix everything well and pour 1 liter of solution under each bush. Superphosphate is recommended to be added if soils are deprived of phosphorus.
And finally, the third feeding is carried out after the first fruits on the bush have ripened. For it, take 2 tsp. superphosphate, 2 tsp. potassium salt and diluted in 10 liters of water. Everything is mixed and, just as in the first two feedings, 1 liter of solution is poured under each bush of the plant.
If you notice that the pepper bushes have begun to grow poorly, you need to fertilize them with urea. Take 30-35 g of urea per bucket of water, mix and spray the plants for 6-8 days.
An excellent fertilizer for peppers can be an infusion of young nettles in water with the addition of minerals. The bucket is filled with nettles to the very top and filled with water. After about a week, the tincture begins to ferment. After another 2-3 days, the nettle sinks to the bottom of the bucket, now the tincture can be filtered and mineral fertilizer can be added. The tincture is ready. If you do not add mineral fertilizers, you can water your peppers with it every 10 days; it is absolutely harmless.

Sometimes, in addition to the main fertilizer application scheme, additional fertilizing is carried out. This is necessary if you see that the bushes are stopping their growth and blooming poorly.

Additional feeding is carried out as follows:

If the bushes grow well but bloom poorly, stop feeding the plants with nitrogen, but add superphosphates with water.
If the pepper leaves begin to curl, you need to add potassium fertilizer to the soil.
The leaves turning a dull gray color on the underside indicates a lack of nitrogen fertilizer in the soil.
During the growing season, pepper may need to spray the bushes, since the plant absorbs fertilizers faster.
Don't overdo it with fertilizers. This is not a case where more is better. You should especially not overuse slurry, as this can lead to loss of fertility.

Useful tips
When feeding peppers, you need to consider what fertilizer is intended for what, what it affects, and what can happen in case of an overdose:

Do not overuse organic fertilizers immediately before planting peppers. The main part of them is included in predecessors.
The full dose of phosphorus and potassium minerals is applied in the fall before plowing, then during sowing and with fertilizing during the growing season.
Part of the nitrogen fertilizers are applied before sowing and with fertilizing, or the entire norm is applied during the growing season.
Nitrogen fertilizers have a productive effect on the number of ovaries and the size of fruits, and an excess of this fertilizer can lead to delayed ripening and a decrease in plant immunity to diseases. A lack of nitrogen leads to a loss of pepper fertility and to the suppression of the plant itself.
If the soil contains the required amount of phosphorus, the rate of fruit ripening will increase, and the roots of the bushes will be strong. A lack of phosphorus causes the leaves to turn purple.
Potassium helps balance vitamins and carotenes, and this in turn improves the cellular structure of the fruit and has a positive effect on the brightness of the color. A lack of potassium leads to reddening of the edges of the leaves.
A lack of magnesium leads to curling and yellowing of foliage.
Before introducing fertilizers, it is advisable to conduct a special soil analysis in order to know for sure what additives the plant needs.
To summarize, we can say that feeding pepper and its seedlings with fertilizers is of great importance for obtaining a rich harvest of vegetables. It is important to introduce fertilizers in a standardized manner and according to the scheme, without abusing or overfeeding the crop. A plant that has been properly cared for, fertilized and fed on time will definitely reward you with good growth and healthy juicy fruits.

The description of the pepper variety on a colorful bag of seeds promises the summer resident tasty, juicy fruits with thick walls. In practice, not everyone manages to obtain the pepper harvest declared by the manufacturer. It is not the seeds that are to blame, but the quality of care and the refusal of fertilizers. Feeding peppers with urea increases the gardener's chances of a good pepper harvest.

Urea is the main supplier of nitrogen

There are fertilizers that are popular with all gardeners. Urea can be considered such a fertilizer. The second name for urea is Urea, it is always present on the packaging of the product. The fertilizer is produced in the form of small white granules that contain a high percentage of nitrogen - 46%. Fertilizer is made from inorganic raw materials.

Fertilizer granules do not smell and quickly dissolve in water of any temperature. Liquid fertilizer solutions prepared according to the instructions can be used for root watering and foliar feeding. The fertilizer solution does not cause burns when it comes into contact with the leaves.

The restoration of nitrogen levels in pepper tissues with foliar feeding occurs within 48 hours. Before using fertilizer, find out about its features:

• an increased concentration of urea in the soil slows down seed germination;
• if the rules for adding urea to the soil are not followed, ammonia is formed, which can have a negative effect on tender shoots;
• The product must be stored in an airtight container; upon contact with atmospheric oxygen, the concentration of nitrogen in the granules noticeably decreases.

Advice! To prevent ammonium carbonate from slowing down seed germination, add urea to the soil along with potassium fertilizer.

It makes no sense to use this type of nitrogen fertilizer in the fall; ammonium will be destroyed over the winter. To achieve the effect, you need to add urea immediately before planting pepper seedlings in a permanent place. Experienced gardeners apply fertilizer to the crop a week before planting, maintaining a planting depth of 8 cm.

Not all soils have the same beneficial properties. The product is more beneficial on soddy-podzolic soils with an acidic reaction. With regular watering, the fertilizer works well on gray soils. It makes sense to apply fertilizer granules on well-irrigated lands.

Mechanism of action of urea:

• affects the rate of cell division, stimulates their growth;
• increases the nitrogen content in the soil;
• facilitates the absorption of nitrogen by weak plants;
• negatively affects harmful insects.

Attention! Urea increases the acidity of the soil, so chalk is added to the soil before it is added. The deoxidizer helps restore normal acidity levels.

Mixing fertilizer with chalk or lime is not recommended. The table below shows the acceptable standards.

Do peppers need nitrogen?

Signs of Deficiency

You cannot do without urea when growing crops on sandy loam or loam, and other soils with low nitrogen content. Signs of a lack of an important nutrient can be seen with the naked eye. They can be listed:

• stems are thin and develop slowly;
• the color of the aerial parts is pale green;
• few inflorescences.

At any phase of development, signs of nitrogen starvation may appear, most often they occur immediately after transplantation into the soil. Urea is not the only fertilizer for peppers; ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate can be used to eliminate nitrogen deficiency.

Nitrogen deficiency in peppers can occur due to low calcium levels. Symptoms and methods for eliminating them are given in the table.

About the dangers of an overdose of nitrogen for peppers

The use of nitrogen-containing fertilizers (mineral, organic) without a specific system often leads to dire consequences. Overfed peppers become fatty and produce a large number of shoots. It’s easy to find out about overfeeding:

Problems are not limited to external signs. What’s worse is that rapid growth exhausts the plant and weakens its immunity. Any fluctuations in daily temperature that are harmful to pepper can provoke disease.

Advice! Increase watering if peppers show signs of excess nitrogen. Feed with any fertilizer containing phosphorus.

Urea when growing pepper seedlings

There are many practice-tested recipes for feeding pepper seedlings. All of them are effective, but gardeners prefer feeding peppers with urea if the leaves of the seedlings turn pale and the stems weaken. Prepare a solution with a low nitrogen concentration for treating seedlings leaf by leaf. Add a teaspoon of urea to a bucket of water.

Other spraying recipes can help weakened seedlings:

If you want strong seedlings, start feeding the pepper with fertilizers after 2 leaves appear. This is if you grow seedlings without picking. In the second case, fertilizers are used for the first time 10 days after picking.

Here is the fertilizer recipe for the first feeding of seedlings:

• pour a liter of water into the container;
• add 0.5 teaspoon of urea granules;
• pour in 2.5 ml of sodium humate.

When 2 weeks have passed, use another recipe; the fertilizer is prepared in the following sequence:

• Pour a liter of water into the container;
• add 0.5 teaspoon of urea;
• Instead of sodium humate, add a teaspoon of potassium monophosphate.

By the time the seedlings are transplanted into the soil, you will have strong seedlings with seven or even 12 bright green, shiny leaves. This is if you were not lazy and looked after the pepper seedlings with due attention.

Fertilizing peppers in open ground

Having transplanted the seedlings into the beds, they wait 10 days until they take root in the new place, and at this time they plan a scheme for future fertilizing.

If you want your peppers to develop well, alternate fertilizers. You can use the following diagram as a basis:

1. Feed with urea for the first time when the plants begin to grow after transplantation.
2. Use urea a second time when most of the fruit is formed.
3. Fertilize with superphosphate when the fruits begin to form.
4. Use calcium nitrate to prevent blossom end rot in fruits.

Many gardeners prefer to use organic matter to replenish nitrogen in the soil. If there is fresh manure at the dacha, then the first fertilizing with urea can be replaced with cow manure infused for 5 days. Concentrated manure is diluted with 10 parts of water, the resulting slurry, and each plant is watered. Spend 1 liter of fertilizer per hole.

We use urea when growing peppers in a greenhouse

The soil in the greenhouse is used intensively; the replenishment of nutrients in it must be carried out systematically. First of all, prepare the soil in the greenhouse. Apply some of the fertilizers containing potassium and phosphorus to the soil in the fall, and in the spring add urea to the planting holes.

Your peppers in the garden have begun to bear fruit, which means that liquid fertilizer containing all the microelements necessary for the formation of large fruits will come in handy. We prepare it, strictly observing the proposed proportions:

• take a 10 liter bucket of warm water;
• add 2 tablespoons of superphosphate granules;
• add 1 tablespoon of potassium chloride crystals;
• finish cooking with 2 tablespoons of urea granules.

Stir the liquid fertilizer until all components are completely dissolved; a small sediment may be present at the bottom of the bucket.

You can use a good recipe from infusions of mullein and chicken manure, prepared in different barrels. Urea is the main component of the recipe. Here are its proportions:

• take a bucket of water;
• pour in a liter of concentrated mullein;
• add a glass of concentrated infusion of chicken manure;
• add a tablespoon of urea.

Between nitrogen fertilizing, peppers can be fed. Use it dry. Sift from combustion residues and scatter around the bushes. About a glass of natural fertilizer is used per square meter of ridge. Ash contains many useful substances, one of them is potassium. It is this that stimulates the formation of ovaries and enhances flowering.

Fertigation is a convenient technology for feeding peppers in a greenhouse

Fertigation is a type of fertilization in which fertilizer in liquid form is added to irrigation water. The technology appeared in the 70s of the last century; now it is used on an industrial scale, in vegetable gardens and greenhouses. This method of fertilizing gained particular popularity after the advent of drip irrigation equipment on sale.

Urea in the required ratio is dissolved in water and a fertilizer solution is added during watering. Automatic watering systems allow for regular feeding of peppers when the owner is absent from the dacha. This significantly eases the burden of seasonal work and, thanks to nitrogen, guarantees good growth of green mass, size and number of pepper fruits.

Benefits of drip irrigation and fertigation:

• Optimal soil moisture (80-90%) and the required concentration of nitrogen and other macro- and microelements in the soil are maintained.
• It is easy to regulate the required volume of watering at different stages of pepper cultivation (pre-planting, planting, vegetative).
• Saving water by supplying liquid fertilizer dosed to each pepper bush.

Reference! To get 15 kg of peppers per square meter in a greenhouse, you need to spend about 1000 l/sq.m. on watering per season. m.

Recipes for foliar feeding with urea

Foliar feeding of peppers based on urea helps to increase productivity. Each vegetable crop has the most favorable phases for their implementation. But not all gardeners do foliar feeding as planned; a significant part use it only as an emergency aid to compensate for nitrogen deficiency.

Reference! Planned foliar feeding increases the yield of peppers by 20%.

We can list a number of factors that force gardeners to resort to foliar feeding of pepper with urea:

• soil waterlogged due to prolonged rains;
• acidic soil, pepper has impaired nitrogen nutrition;
• extreme soil temperature (high, low), impairing the functioning of the root system.

Advantages of foliar feeding: rapid absorption of nitrogen, normalization of nitrogen balance, growth of leaves, increase in fruit size, and urea will be a good assistant in this.

Large-volume garden sprayers make the labor-intensive process easier. With their help you can quickly and easily process large pepper plantations. When using simple sprayers, the work of spraying leaves takes a lot of effort and time.

The first complete nitrogen fertilization on the leaf is carried out 2 weeks after transplanting pepper seedlings into the soil. It is at this time, when the phase of active growth of the vegetative mass begins, that peppers require nitrogen.

Preference should be given to urea, or more precisely, to its 2% aqueous solution. What is needed is a solution with a low nitrogen concentration. To obtain it, dissolve 20 g of fertilizer in a bucket of water. The solution is poured into the sprayer tank and the pepper plantings are treated in the evening.

The effect will only be achieved if the leaves are processed correctly. To do this, adhere to the following rules while working:

• Spray the pepper leaves evenly and alternately on both sides. Start from the bottom tier of leaves and gradually move the sprayer to the top of the pepper.
• Plan work for the morning - before 11:00, or for the evening - later than 17:00.
• Do not process peppers if the air temperature is above +22 °C.
• Do not treat leaves before or during rain.

Proper preparation of compost

If you grow peppers in your beds, then you need good compost. It is no secret that crops grow better on loose soil that allows both water and air to pass through well. You can improve the soil structure with rotted sawdust or compost.

You can prepare it yourself. Fresh sawdust cannot be added to the soil; it makes the soil unsuitable for growing any plants. Make the right sawdust, use the following recipe for this:

• lay sawdust in layers;
• Water each layer of sawdust with a urea solution (dissolve 200 g of fertilizer in a bucket of water);
• wet the layers well;
• cover the pile with cellophane;
• shovel sawdust once every 2 weeks.

We saw that the color of the sawdust became almost black, which means they are ready for use. Adding such sawdust enriched with nitrogen fertilizer will not only improve the structure of the soil, but will also replenish the nitrogen concentration in it.

A constant level of soil moisture is an important condition for a good pepper harvest. Sawdust mulch will help retain moisture in the soil. It is good to soak the sawdust with a fertilizer solution containing nitrogen; urea is suitable for this. You need to pour 60 g into a bucket of water.

Microorganisms that process sawdust will use the nitrogen contained in the soil, depleting it. And if you water the sawdust with nitrogen fertilizer (urea), the balance will not be upset. The sawdust will rot, the moisture will not evaporate, and the peppers will not get sick.

Conclusion

Pepper needs urea throughout the season. Knowledge of standards and practice-tested fertilizer application schemes will help maintain optimal nitrogen levels in the soil. Nitrogen fertilizer is produced in packages convenient for summer residents. The price of nitrogen fertilizer is affordable, the effect of using urea is beyond doubt.

Additional information about the use of urea in the garden can be viewed in the video: