Secrets of a rich harvest: how to grow peppers and tomatoes together? How to get good seedlings?

Tomatoes and peppers are popular vegetable plants found in almost every vegetable garden. Every housewife knows that the cultivation of these crops requires certain knowledge and skills, as well as appropriate conditions.

When planning planting, there may be a question about the compatibility of the two crops and growing them next to each other. After all, the quality and volume of the crop depends on the competent neighborhood.

This article describes the secrets of a rich harvest: how to grow tomatoes and peppers together. And also described in detail how to get a good seedlings.

Is it possible to grow these vegetables nearby?

Often gardeners ask: Is it possible to plant tomatoes and peppers together? These vegetable crops belong to the same family - the nightshade. They do not conflict with each other, have similar requirements for the quality and nutritional value of the soil. They need close growing conditions and similar care. therefore Tomatoes with pepper are allowed to be planted, both in the open field and in the greenhouse.

We offer to watch a video on whether peppers and tomatoes can be placed together during planting:

Features co-cultivation

1. As representatives of the nightshade, peppers and tomatoes have common diseases and are affected by the same pests. It is necessary to provide prevention and protection against insects and infections.
2. Peppers love heat, and tomatoes need ventilation. It should consider in advance the placement in the greenhouse: peppers - away from the entrance and drafts, tomatoes - closer to the door and ventilation.
3. Bushes of tomatoes above the peppers, grow strongly and can close the peppers from the sun. Joint planting is planned taking into account the direction of illumination, peppers - from the sunny side.

In a joint garden of tomatoes and peppers around the edges, you can plant marigolds, they scare away pasanaceous pests.

Feasibility of the method

If conditions allow, it is better to grow peppers and tomatoes separately. (Read more about the nuances of the cultivation of tomatoes, read here). But if there is not enough space in greenhouses and open beds, then joint plantings will be a good way out.

pros

1. Saving space.
2. Tomatoes protect peppers from aphids.
3. Save time on care.
4. Less fertilizer per unit area.

Minuses

1. Increased risk of common diseases.
2. Attracting insect pests.
3. Accelerated soil depletion.

Pepper needs

• Sufficient air humidity.
• Good light.
• Loamy nourishing soil.
• Warm conditions.
• Watering with warm water.
• Fertilizer potassium and phosphorus.

Necessary conditions for tomatoes

• Dry air
• Good lighting.
• Loamy soil with humus.
• Moderate temperature.
• Frequent airing.
• Top dressing with nitrogen and phosphorus.
• Not frequent, but abundant watering.

How can cultures be combined?

1. Maintain the distance between the plants so that the roots do not interfere with each other, and the leaves of the plants do not touch.
2. Sufficiently free planting - tall tomatoes should not block the pepper from the sun.
3. Holding the garter and pasynkovaniya in time, so that the tomatoes do not interfere with the peppers during growth.

Selection of varieties

The choice of tomato varieties depends on the characteristics of the growing region and weather conditions. When buying, take into account the time of planting, disease resistance, the appointment - for the greenhouse or open ground.

For greenhouses

For rational use of the place choose tall varieties:

• tomatoes (one hundred pounds, sugar bison, wild rose, scarlet sails);
• peppers (Bourgeois, Cardinal, Atlas, Yanika, Orange miracle).

For the prevention of diseases - special hybrids for greenhouses that are resistant to temperature extremes and infections:

• tomatoes (Cardinal, Ogorodnik, Gypsy, Resonance, De Barao);
• peppers (Hercules, Claudio, Arsenal, Swallow, Viking, Bogatyr).

For open ground

Suitable combination of stunted varieties:

• tomatoes (Pearl Red, Mikado, Riddle, Gourmand);
• Peppers (Oak, Merchant, Atlant, Victoria).

For the prevention of pests choose early and mid-season varieties resistant to low temperatures and diseases:

• tomatoes (Cardinal, Betta, Anyuta, Pepper);
• peppers (Mummers, Bagration, Nathan, Kolobok, Sibiryak).

How to get good seedlings at home?

A similar technology is used for growing seedlings of peppers and tomatoes.

Sowing time

• Late varieties of pepper and tomatoes are sown in February-March. Early varieties - in March-April.
• Pepper rises longer than tomatoes, so it is sown on seedlings a week earlier than tomatoes. Tomatoes sprout 3-5 days, peppers 7-10 days.

Seed preparation

1. Seeds are sorted, discarding small, dark and broken. It is convenient to sort the seeds in a salt solution (2 tablespoons per 1 liter of water). Floated seeds are not suitable for sowing. Settled on the bottom suitable for landing. Each grade is sorted separately.
2. For disinfection, seeds are kept for half an hour in a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
3. To wake germs and accelerate growth, seeds of tomatoes and peppers are soaked for 2 hours in heated water at a temperature not higher than 60 degrees or in a biostimulant solution (Appin, Novosil, Zircon).

Read more about how to process tomato seeds before sowing, in a separate article.

Selection of packaging and soil for cultivation

1. Containers for seedlings or containers for food of convenient size are used. They are washed and disinfected with a solution of potassium permanganate.
2. Purchase soil contains all the necessary additives for the growth of seedlings and is ready for use. The soil from the garden is disinfected and mixed with:
   • peat;
   • humus;
   • ash;
   • fertilizers.

Ways

Consider how to properly plant the seeds of the two crops in the seedlings at home. Planting seedlings of peppers and tomatoes for seedlings has similar methods.:

• 1 way - sow in a single container at once many seeds in rows at a distance of 5 cm, in increments of 2-3 cm. Top to fill with loose soil, pour. After germination, plant in separate containers (dive).
• 2 way - plant two seeds in separate containers of a small size, after the germination of the seeds, leave what is stronger and do not replant before planting in the ground.
• 3 way - pre-germinate seeds under film, gauze or toilet paper, plant single germinated seeds in separate containers (for more information on planting tomatoes for seedlings without land, see here).

Each variety is sown separately, and labeled. All containers cover with a film before the first shoots.

In detail about how to grow and care for seedlings of tomatoes, we told in this material.

Picking

Picks are done in the same way for peppers and tomatoes.:

1. The prepared containers are filled to a third with earth.
2. Using a small spoon or spatula, hook the plant along with the soil from the common container.
3. Place the plant in a cup, fill up the gaps with loose soil, water it, compact the soil.

Tomatoes give side shoots, when picking the plant, you can deepen it lower. Pepper does not need to be deepened, filled with earth at the level of the old planting.

Read more about the seedless method of sowing seeds, read here, and from this article you will learn about the features of growing seedlings of tomatoes in five-liter and other bottles without picking.

We offer you to watch a video about the picking rules of tomatoes and peppers:

Quenching

Before planting in the soil, seedlings are gradually hardened., for this, it is first brought to a cooler room, such as a balcony or a veranda. After that, it is carried out under a shed or in a greenhouse, so that the plant is accustomed to fresh air and sun.

How to plant: step by step instructions

Timing

In the greenhouse seedlings can be planted in late April - early May. On open beds after May 10-15, depending on the region, at a temperature not lower than 15 degrees at night.

We offer to watch a video on how crops are planted in the greenhouse:

Recommended scheme

It should be noted that in the greenhouse, they delimit zones: on the one hand the greenhouses - rows of tomatoes, on the other - rows of peppers. Or place a mirror - rows of tomatoes along the walls of the greenhouse, and to the center - peppers in a checkerboard pattern.

In the open ground place joint planting in rows - a row of tomatoes and a row of peppers with a distance between rows of 60-80 cm.

Or grow tomatoes and peppers on the same bed: on the edge of the garden with tomatoes planted peppers in a checkerboard pattern.

Rules for open ground and greenhouses

as necessary. To protect against weeds, joint planting of tomatoes and peppers can be mulch hay and straw.

Masking

For open ground, tall tomatoes and medium-sized peppers form 2-3 stalks, leaving strong strong stepchildren. Low-growing tomatoes and peppers can not stepchild, but cut off the weak shoots growing inside.

Read more about growing tomatoes in the open field here.

We propose to look at the form of the rules of staking tomatoes and peppers:

Garter

Tying up need tomatoes, and tall varieties of peppers in greenhouses. For this purpose, trellis is used, the ropes from each bush are pulled to them, and as they grow, the plant is wrapped with a rope, or tied to a trellis.

Top dressing

Before planting seedlings, the soil is enriched with superphosphate and wood ash. Phosphate-potassium fertilizers are suitable for planting tomatoes and peppers. Standard feeding scheme:

• 1 tbsp. superphosphate;
• 1 tsp potassium sulfate per 10 liters of water.

You can add to this mix:

• infusion of chicken manure or manure;
• 0.5 tsp boric acid;
• 1 tbsp. wood ash;
• 1 tbsp. nitrophoska.

The first feeding is carried out in 2-3 weeks after transplanting, the second - in 10 days. Subsequent - in 10-15 days. To fruiting, add 2 tbsp to the soil. superphosphate and 1 tbsp. sodium humate, diluted in 10 liters. water.

We offer you to watch a video about tomato and pepper fertilizer technology:

Details about planting tomatoes in the greenhouse, greenhouse, open ground, as well as how to grow tall and healthy vegetables, we told in a separate article.

The fight and the prevention of pests and diseases

Two weeks after planting in the greenhouse or the ground for prevention from phytophthora, tomatoes are sprayed with copper chloride or a copper-soap emulsion.

During the season they regularly disinfect from late blight, copper or iodine solution (10 ml. Per 10 l. Of water). The last treatment for diseases is carried out 20 days before harvest..

From aphids on peppers, and other pests of tomatoes sprayed plants with an ash solution (50 g each of ash, tobacco and laundry soap for 10 liters of water) or special ready-made products.

The joint cultivation of tomatoes and peppers has both advantages and disadvantages. In order for plants to develop well and not interfere with each other, you need to know the characteristics of their combination. Competent care will allow to collect a double harvest from a small space.

Watch the video: How I Doubled My Pepper Production without Pruning (May 2024).