A lot has been written about sweet pepper, about its undoubted benefits and wonderful taste. Please your household with this useful gift of nature. Select a small area of the garden and plant fragrant pepper Swallow. Reviews gardeners about its taste are only enthusiastic.
It grows well in film shelters, in arches for a greenhouse, in the open ground, and even in a flower pot on the windowsill. Plants of sweet pepper varieties Swallow is recommended to be tied when grown.
Sweet pepper Swallow. Characteristics
Mature bushes up to a meter high have a standard structure: a slender bare trunk and a chic semi-spreading crown. Peppers of the Swallow variety are completely resistant to such a serious disease as verticillosis, or wilt, the causative agent of which are mitospore fungi.
The high-yielding variety Swallow has an early ripening period. After 130 days after planting greenhouses and film shelters in open or protected ground, it will delight you with large juicy fruits. Fruits ripen together, up to 15 pieces per plant. They do not stack on branches, but neatly hang vertically one at a time. Peppers are slightly ribbed, weighing up to 80 grams, have the shape of a cone with a length of 10 centimeters (on average). The fruiting period is 12 days or more.
Growing process
Unpretentious and very tasty pepper - Swallow. Reviews of people devoted to growing vegetables confirm this. The table shows all the stages of cultivating varieties, processing tools and the timing of feeding.
| Stages | The timing | Top dressing |
Seed planting | The end of February is possible in two terms. | |
Pick | April | "Kemira" and "Epins-extra" to increase vitality. |
Transplanting | The beginning of June | "Epins-extra", the drug "Ovary" after planting in permanent soil after two weeks. |
Vegetation period | Unstable, depending on the climate. | Every 2 weeks three times fertilizer "Growth". The drug "Ovary" at the time of mass flowering. |
Fruiting | Beginning of august | Solution "Ideal" two weeks after the ovary of the first fruits. |
Calcium is considered an important trace element in the cultivation of Swallows. After the seeds have sprouted, it should take about a month before the first leaves appear.
Unpretentious grade - sweet pepper Swallow! Reviews some gardeners and gardeners still say that he loves light and moist ground. If it is in the shade, it grows with fragile stems. Fruits do not tie well under such conditions. With insufficient moisture, ugly fruits with thinned walls appear.
Maturation
The full formation of fruits (technical ripeness) in the Swallow variety occurs after planting in permanent soil after three weeks. Moreover, the elongated fruit with a length of 6 cm and a diameter of more than 4 cm has thick fleshy walls, a dense crust and a characteristic pepper aroma. The color of such peppers is from light green to yellow. It has seeds of wax ripeness, but still dairy, immature.
During this period, the fruits can already be collected for use in salads. But if you plan to stock up with the fruits and seeds of this wonderful variety, then you should wait until physiological (biological) ripeness. In this phase sweet pepper Swallow, reviews of enthusiastic gardeners - confirmation of this, has a beautiful red color and ripened seeds.
Harvesting
Harvesting is best done by hand and very carefully so as not to break the plant. Peppers are harvested from the beginning of the fruiting period and every week, regardless of the ripening phase. If favorable sunny (not heat) weather is issued with periodic short-term rains, then up to six kilograms of bright peppers per square meter can be collected during the entire fruiting period. The fruits of this sweet variety are characterized by increased keeping quality and tolerate transportation.
Most gardeners buy proven varieties over the years, which include sweet pepper Swallow. Reviews of experienced fans delving into the garden emphasize its excellent taste when consumed both fresh and after conservation. He is really sweet!