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Peppers are, along with tomatoes, the most popular vegetable grown here. It is this vegetable that people have learned to grow in flower pots on balconies, small front gardens and windowsills. If you don’t have a large number of seedlings, you will certainly appreciate the high yield of individual plants all the more. And this is exactly what you can support if you make this fertilizer that you will give to the peppers.
Growing peppers
If you grow peppers, you should follow a few rules. They can be easily grown both in a flower pot and in a garden bed. It is important to know, especially for growing in pots, that peppers do not like acidic soil. It is advisable to buy garden substrate. In addition, it is also important to meet their water needs. They should have constantly moist soil. Lack of water could be dangerous for them; the pepper fruits would not grow as much and their skins could also crack. Among other things, it is also important to support the plants with a suitable fertilizer that will increase their yield. Below you will find a recipe for such a fertilizer.
Making fertilizer
You will need 1 liter of liquid fertilizer suitable for peppers, 9 liters of water (it can be rainwater or tap water) and 200–250 g of white chalk, which will provide the peppers with the necessary calcium. Pour all 9 liters of water and the full 1 liter of fertilizer into a large bucket. Grate the above-mentioned amount of white chalk into this solution. Stir the solution thoroughly before each use. Water only the soil under the pepper plant that has already been moistened; only in this way will you achieve the maximum effect of the homemade fertilizer. Use this fertilizer every time you water the peppers; do not combine it with other fertilizers. You should fertilize peppers once every two weeks. Such a fertilizer will provide your peppers with all the necessary nutrients, thanks to which more peppers will appear on the plants and they will grow larger. And you will be able to enjoy excellent peppers freshly picked from the garden throughout the season.
