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Hi, I am Jarrett of Stone Soup Farm and this is how to grow bell peppers. Bell pepper,
as all peppers are not frost tolerant so you're going to want to wait until the last frost
in your area has passed in order to plant them outside. First, you want to start off
with a well prepared seed bed like this, pretty clean of any living weeds, hopefully tilled
relatively deep and plenty of compost in there. Bell pepper plants should be spaced at about
eighteen inches apart for the maximum yield. So, you can take a garden trowel like this
and poke holes about eighteen inches apart. You can measure it if you want, it's not super
important. And, these holes should be about half an inch to an inch deep and take your
packet of seeds, and put one seed in each hole. And, one seed is enough to make one
plant.
There's a lot of different types of bell peppers, so I recommend trying out at least a few different
varieties, they have different colors and different shapes and flavors. Once the seed
is in, you want to cover it up with about a half an inch to an inch of soil, make sure
you water these in really well, and make sure you keep them well watered about once a week
throughout the season, especially during the time of flowering and when they're producing
the peppers themselves. Keep it weed free for the best yields. Most peppers when they,
most bell peppers are green when they are first formed on the plant and as they are
allowed to stay on the plant, they will mature or ripen, which turns them to a different
color, usually red, orange, or yellow. If you want green peppers, as soon as the pepper
is there on the plant and it's big, go for it, it's ready. If you want colored sweet
peppers, then you should let them wait and they can take up to another month after being
green, before they start to turn colors. But, it's often well worth the wait. I'm Jarrett
of Stone Soup Farm, and that's how to grow bell peppers.