If previously pepper was grown only in warm countries, now the culture has spread throughout the world, even coming to areas with cold climates. Both yellow and red vegetables are useful for the human body. And preparations for the winter cannot take place without using the best varieties of sweet peppers. Before planting a vegetable, you need to select types of crops that ripen in a specific climate zone. To grow bell peppers, you need to create comfortable conditions with high air temperatures, abundant watering, and fertilizing.
Hybrids for open ground
Early types of sweet vegetables are suitable for areas with a warm climate and long summers, where they can be planted in open ground as early as May.
Meet the Big Family
Seeds of Big pepper, bred by Russian breeders, appeared recently. Translated from English, representatives of the family are called large. They have Big Daddy with purple colored fruit. Big Mama peppers are fleshy orange, and Big Boy peppers are dark red. There is also a girl in the family - the Big Girl pepper, which bears quadrangular-shaped fruits that are orange with a brownish tint. The benefit of orange fruits is their high content of beta-carotene, which is converted into vitamin A in the human body. The vitamin has a positive effect on the condition of blood vessels, and potassium on the function of the heart muscle. In addition to their sweet taste, they have thick walls, up to seven millimeters. They note the plants' resistance to disease and good yield, reaching six to seven kilograms per square meter.
Admiral varieties
Hybrid pepper Admiral F1 produces fruits weighing over one hundred and fifty grams after 105 days. The original color of the vegetable is from green to red with white stripes. The height of the vegetable bush reaches one meter or more.
Pepper Admiral Ushakov reaches maturity in 112-130 days. Cuboid fruits of bright red color reach a weight of two hundred to three hundred grams. And their thick walls are juicy and tasty.
Mid-season pepper Admiral Nakhimov has thick walls and a bright taste. The fruits weigh three hundred or more grams of rich red color and are juicy. Features of the variety are its resistance to viral and fungal infections.
About the best varieties for 2018
Choosing early varieties of vegetables means getting a harvest of healthy fruits in early August.The best varieties of pepper for 2018 for open ground are represented by hybrids:
- Martin. One of the advantages of this variety is its rapid ripening. Harvest when the cone-shaped fruits reach biological maturity and turn green. The early variety is suitable for pickling and preparing winter salads.
- Merchant. Pyramid-shaped peppers reach a weight of no more than one hundred grams. It is convenient to prepare them whole for the winter. The preparations are aromatic and tasty.
- Atlant. The hybrid produces three-chambered fruits with dense, fleshy walls. Harvest 110 days after emergence. From one square meter you can get up to five kilograms of vegetables.
- Pepper Topolin. On compact bushes 70 centimeters high, after 110-120 days, cone-shaped salad-colored fruits appear. Their walls are no more than five millimeters thick. You can get up to five kilograms of fruit from one square meter.
- Pepper Flight. The variety is interesting due to its compactness of the bush, the height of which is less than fifty centimeters. In this case, you can get up to ten kilograms of dark red aromatic fruits from one square meter. The hybrid is convenient for growing in small areas.
- Variety Belozerka. Reviews about the hybrid are only positive. They note the high yield of the vegetable, the weak ribbing of its fruits with a pulp thickness of seven millimeters. The vegetable crop retains its quality for a long time during storage and transportation. Kirill pepper has similar characteristics.
- The Red Miracle pepper is a medium type of vegetable in terms of ripening time. On semi-spreading bushes, 120 days after germination, tetrahedral red fruits appear. They have a sweet, without bitter taste. They are best used for stuffing, but they are also good fresh.The variety is not afraid of sudden changes in temperature.
- One of the common varieties is Grandma's Garden pepper. The medium-sized bushes of the plant are strewn with green, yellowish and red fruits. Small in mass, they are thick-walled, which allows you to enjoy them in salads and slices.
Pepper varieties for open ground are selected taking into account the climate and weather conditions of the growing region. Before purchasing seeds, carefully study the characteristics and description of the vegetable plant variety.
Which varieties are best for greenhouses
All varieties of bell pepper are suitable for planting both in open ground and in greenhouses. But if the climate is cold and you want to get the harvest early, then it is better to plant vegetables under film coverings. And here the most common plants are chosen.
It is known about Morozko pepper that it was created by breeders in Siberia, so it is an ideal option for greenhouse soil. The main difference between Morozko pepper is:
- the average height of the bush is up to eighty centimeters;
- thick juicy walls of seven millimeters;
- convenient shape of the fruit in the form of a pyramid;
- high content of vitamin C;
- amicable maturation.
The use of Morozko pepper is universal: it is also good in winter preparations and fresh vegetable dishes. The vegetable plant is grown in the same way as other varieties, in seedlings. With pepper, Morozko is not afraid to be left without delicious aromatic fruits and preparations for the winter.
Summer residents should not ignore the Pharaoh pepper with its excellent taste. And there are few nests in the fruit, and its shape is convenient for stuffing. And in the greenhouse, yields of yellow and red peppers are obtained 65 days after planting the seedlings.
The Flamingo pepper is pleased with its super early fruits.The hybrid was bred by French breeders, so it is better to grow it under film. High productivity of the variety - up to three kilograms per bush. The variety tolerates drought well, being protected by wide leaves. Dense fruits easily tolerate transportation and are stored for a long time.
A heavily leafy bush of the Lydia hybrid, no more than sixty centimeters high. Despite the compactness of the plant, the characteristics of the fruit are surprising. The description of the variety includes, along with the smoothness of the cone-shaped fruits, the weight of one hundred grams, the aroma and excellent taste of the pulp. They are high in sugar and ascorbic acid. And the vegetable yield is up to ten kilograms per square meter.
Hybrid Lydia bears fruit better in greenhouse soil.
The Prince Silver variety lives comfortably under the film; its bush is compact, reaching a height of less than half a meter. Aligned smooth fruits have a universal purpose. Due to their small size, they are suitable for pickling.
Of the mid-early hybrids, he uses Fisht F1 for planting, a pepper that bears fruit 110 days after germination. Ideal fruit varieties:
- weighing seventy to one hundred grams;
- the walls are five millimeters thick;
- rich red color.
And the hybrid produces a good harvest - on average five kilograms per square meter.
To get high-quality sweet peppers in greenhouses, you must follow the rules for planting and growing the vegetable.
Large-fruited hybrids
The homeland of sweet peppers is the hot and humid territories of the American continent. It was brought to European countries after the discovery of America. The vegetable came to us from Bulgaria, which is why sweet types of peppers are called bell peppers. The vegetable's pulp, juicy and aromatic, is valued. The larger the fruit, the thicker its walls, the more nutrients it contains. Gardeners want to grow giant varieties to enjoy the sweet pulp of the fruit.
One of the interesting hybrids of a vegetable plant is the Siberian Bonus pepper with orange fruits similar to oranges. Up to fifteen cubic shaped peppers are harvested from one bush. And it’s good in weight – up to three hundred grams with walls a centimeter thick.
The hybrid feels great in open and closed ground, producing up to three kilograms of fruit from one bush.
It is known about the Red Giant pepper that its bush is 120 centimeters high, and its almost square dark red fruits are larger than average. Their weight is three hundred grams, and the thickness of the walls is a centimeter.
Pepper Prince Igor produces yields in greenhouses two to three times greater than in the open air. The ripe fruits of the hybrid have a dark red color and are suitable for processing into sauces and lecho. It is useful to eat vegetables with nine millimeters thick pulp; they contain more sugar and vitamins.
Lesya pepper is an early ripening plant and produces large, heart-shaped fruits. Their pulp is hidden in centimeter-thick walls - juicy and sweet. But the size of the peppers is small, barely reaching 170 grams.
The name of the Goliath variety speaks for itself. The fruits of the vegetable are the largest in size. The stem has to be tied up so that it does not break under the weight of their mass of three to four hundred grams. The Goliath hybrid can decorate the site and delight you with a high yield.
Pepper Goby is one of the popular mid-season types of vegetable plants. Orange fruits on half-meter bushes will decorate the garden. Cuboidal, thick-walled, they have a pleasant aroma. They are convenient to cut into salads and stuff. And there are not so many seeds in the nests.The Bychok pepper produces good harvests – up to five kilograms and more.
The slightly curved fruits of the Mammoth Tusk variety resemble an elephant's trunk. The length of the fruit reaches 27 millimeters and weighs two hundred grams. The variety is valued for its sweetness and juiciness.
There are many varieties of sweet peppers. Summer residents choose not only proven ones, but also discover new ones every year.
