Hello, my gardeners and gardeners friends!
Hooray, hooray, hooray, I'm back in my favorite HiveGarden community!
Today I want to join the stories about my labors in growing a vegetable garden.
But I want to remind you that I do not have my own plot of land under the open sky ☹️
I really like to grow vegetables, so I found a solution and arranged a mini-vegetable garden on my windowsill.
Now I will tell you about one of my "pets" growing in a pot on the windowsill.
Meet – this is my Bulgarian pepper with already ripe fruits!
In the garden on the windowsill, people usually grow varieties of hot chili peppers.
But last year, in 2021, I decided to try to grow a special variety of sweet Bulgarian pepper.
I sowed seeds of Russian production into the ground, this is an F1 hybrid, it is called "БЕЙБИ РЕД" in Russian, and the name of the variety can probably be translated into English as "RED BABY".
This is how the package with pepper seeds looks like:
Indeed, the fruits of this indoor pepper grow small in size, bright red in color. This is a very beautiful plant!
So, in the spring of last year, I sowed a few seeds of Bulgarian pepper in small pots.
I began to wait for the shoots.
But the pepper sprouted very slowly. Of the several seeds sown, only two seeds sprouted…
When the seedlings grew a little and got stronger, I transplanted them into a pot with a nutrient substrate.
Both Bulgarian pepper plants felt great in a small amount of land.
They developed well with timely watering and fertilizing fertilizers.
In the summer, my peppers finally bloomed!
Look at how beautiful their flowers are - white and delicate.
There were a lot of flowers on the peppers.
I tried to pollinate the flowers with a brush. As a result, by autumn, several fruits were tied on the plants.
Here are such small green fruits 😍
Well, then everything went as usual: watering, fertilizing with fertilizers, spraying with water…
The pepper fruits gradually grew and began to ripen.
They matured in a very unusual way!
The color of the pepper fruit began to change from the very tip. The "spout" of the pepper first began to darken – from green to purple.
And then it turned red. And this color spread higher and higher in the fruit.
I want to present you a photo shoot of my handsome peppers with already fully ripe bright and beautiful fruits.
Almost all the fruits of the peppers were ripe by February 2022. They have acquired a bright red color.
The bushes of the plant look very impressive and beautiful!
The fruits are small, but when I touch them with my fingers, I feel that the peppers are juicy, have thick walls.
Probably soon I will pick one fruit and taste it 😀
I really enjoyed growing bell peppers on the windowsill!
Although there are difficulties in this pepper cultivation. Compared to tomatoes, peppers grow and ripen very slowly. And the yield of indoor pepper is low - you will not get a lot of harvest...
But pepper is a perennial plant.
Therefore, when I collect all the ripe fruits from the bushes, I will transplant them into another pot.
And then my peppers will bloom again in the spring and will delight me with the harvest.
This is the experience of growing bell peppers in an apartment, on the windowsill I got.
