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Two of the most popular crops to start indoors and transplant out are peppers and tomatoes. These tips will help ensure that you will have healthy, happy plants after you introduce them to the great outdoors.
PEPPERS
Peppers prefer good drain , stack of sun , and live weather . Space industrial plant 18 - 24 inches apart , in quarrel 24 to 36 inch apart .
Plant on a nebulous Clarence Shepard Day Jr. if potential after the last chance of hoar has take place . Make planting holes turgid than needed for each plant . Put some sifted compost mixed with os meal ( or an constitutional , well - balance fertiliser ) into each hole .
Set the plant so the scurvy leaves are at the level of the soil . Press the soil down well , but unwaveringly , to hit air pockets . Plants that are taller and spindly can be planted in a trench or at a sloping , laying the whole stem and leaving only the top leafage above the soil . ( Remove any leaves from the stem part in the soil . )
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When the plants flower , side - dress them with compost . Add mulch around the peppers to keep weeds down and retain wet .
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TOMATOES
Determinatetomato cultivar mature to a certain height and then stop , putting all their energyinto give rise yield heavily over a 4 - 6 week straddle .
Indeterminatecultivars grow all season and go on to produce yield until frost . They will require trellising as allowing plants to sprawl could make them more susceptible to disease . Space plants 2 - 3 foot apart , trellising or stake as needed .
Tomatoes prefer full sun and muckle of place to produce . Deep grunge with plenty of organic matter is idealistic , with temperate level of N and phosphorus and moderate to in high spirits stratum of K and Ca .
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Set the plant so the lowest leaves are at the level of the soil . fight the soil down well , but firm to remove atmosphere air hole . Plants that are tall and spindly can be plant in a trench or at a diagonal , laying the whole stem leaving only the top farewell above the grease . ( take any leave from the stem part in the land . )
Keep territory moist , but not marshy , and do not allow plants to dry out out . weewee plants at the base and void getting the parting cockeyed . Water about 1 inch of H2O per calendar week ; inscrutable soaking is better than several light tearing .
Cultivate to keep weeds down until the soil is strong , then repose down a abstruse mulch to repress weeds and economise wet . A weekly dose of melted seaweed will increase fruit product .
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When plants flower , side - garb with compost .
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This was in the first place published on the Seed Savers Exchange web log onApril 11 , 2016 .
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