Here's how I use regular millet when feeding Pepper. The result will exceed all your expectations
How to feed vegetable peppers to grow healthy, ripen early, form fleshy, tasty fruits? Today in shops for gardeners you can find a lot of products that promise great results!
But most of them are of chemical origin, harmful to nature and unsafe for humans, and besides, they are expensive.
But I found a way out - my choice is ordinary millet, cereals!
Millet is rich in amino acids, vitamins, minerals and other substances that form a unique “palette”. You can take any, the cheapest.
Directly from the packaging, I pour about 1 kg of millet into 5 liters of hot water and leave it for 24 hours. Then I stir the cereal in water so that it gives off more "dust" and drain the water. Next, the infusion is diluted with clean water in proportions 1: 1 and you can water the peppers, spending 2 liters per bush.
It is best to combine such feeding with regular watering - the infusion from millet cannot, of course, cause a burn of the root system, but it will be absorbed much better this way.
My personal experience has shown that peppers should be fed this way three times per season - at the beginning of flowering, as soon as it is completed and in the first 2 weeks of ripening.
Thanks to millet:
· The fruits have a neat shape, which is due to the variety;
· Peppers are less prone to cracking;
· The harvest ripens earlier;
· Collected peppers are stored longer;
· The taste of vegetables is improved.
And if you trust scientists, then with the help of millet it is possible to reduce the risks of developing bacterial infections for vegetable sweet and bitter peppers.
Last year, I even conducted an experiment - I introduced an infusion from millet when watering seedlings, arranged in a permanent place. And it seemed to me that she quickly adapted, rather started to grow.
Millet is a neutral top dressing. That is, if desired, it can be combined with any other store or folk recipes, it will work just as well and will not cause an excess of any elements in the soil.
In addition, you can sprinkle the remaining millet after the preparation of the infusion on the beds with pepper, deepening it by loosening. Naturally, you need to be very careful not to damage the root system.
In addition to feeding, this option for using cereals is good because it scares off ants from the culture - millet is not poisonous for them, but for some reason they do not like it up close.