Pepper is a wonderful vegetable crop that gardeners love. Pepper is very nutritious and contains a lot of vitamin C. It is easy to grow this vegetable. Observing the simple rules of planting and growing, you can get a good harvest of peppers.
Novice gardeners are asked many questions about the care of this vegetable. Among the most popular are the questions:
- Is it possible to feed the peppers with yeast?
- How to feed the peppers with yeast?
- How to make yeast dressing for peppers?
Did you know? The famous chilli pepper accelerates metabolism, so it is worth including it in the diet if you lose weight. A small amount of pepper added to the dish burns 45 calories.
The use of yeast in the garden
Yeast is good as a fertilizer for vegetables in general and for peppers in particular. They contain 65% of proteins, 10% of amino acids, a large amount of minerals, trace elements and organic iron. The yeast in the garden has the following useful functions:
- stimulate the growth of crops;
- are a real source of beneficial bacteria;
- help the roots grow and develop: they accelerate the emergence of new roots by 10-12 days and increase their number 10 times;
- increase endurance of plants;
- well affect the seedlings, fed in early spring, it is less drawn out.
Yeast as a fertilizer when you need to feed the pepper
Gardeners of the last century used yeast as fertilizer. The mechanism of efficacy occurs as follows. Due to the fungus, which is contained in the yeast, changing the composition of the soil. Yeast activates the possibilities of microorganisms living in the soil, and they begin to process organic matter more intensively. Due to accelerated chemical processes, potassium and nitrogen are released into the soil.
Top dressing for pepper from yeast is a good way to care for vegetables with minimal financial costs. Yeast dressing should be done twice a season. To do this, simply apply fertilizer to the heated soil. If you water the pepper with a yeast solution, do not forget to add some wood ash to the soil.
Important! Do not feed pepper overdue fertilizer!
Yeast Fertilizer Instructions
Here are some yeast-based fertilizer recipes that are good for watering seedlings, as well as adult plants:
- 200 g yeast for baking in 1 liter of water. Immediately before use, dilute another 9 liters of water.
- 100 g of raw yeast per 10 liters of warm water. Insist for a day.
- In a 70-liter container put 1 bucket of green grass, 0.5 kg of crackers and 0.5 kg of yeast. Insist two days.
- Mix a tablespoon of yeast with two tablespoons of sugar, 2 g of ascorbic acid and a handful of earth. Insist day in 5 liters of water. Top dressing is made - 1 l tincture on 10 l of water.
If you do not have ready yeast at hand, you can make them yourself.
- Sourdough from wheat grains. Grind a glass of germinated seeds. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar and 2 tablespoons of flour. Cook the resulting mass on low heat for 20 minutes. Leave for two days before fermentation. When the dough is fermented, mix it with 10 liters of water.
- Sourdough hop cones. A glass of dry or fresh cones pour 1.5 liters of boiling water and cook for an hour on low heat. Strain, cool. Add 2 tablespoons of wheat flour and sugar. Put in two days in the heat. When the first signs of fermentation appear, add two boiled grated potatoes. Leave warm for another 24 hours. Use the starter from the calculation - a glass of 10 liters of water.
Important! Baker's yeast is a wonderful vitamin supplement and natural fertilizer for the garden.
Features of the use of yeast in the garden, how to fertilize pepper
Scientists confirm that 1% yeast extract replaces all fertilizers that were applied to the soil during the season.
The big plus of yeast fertilizers is the fact that, using them, you can not overdo it with either concentration or quantity.
Yeast is an alternative to traditional mineral fertilizers. They are economical and safe for plants.
For feeding pepper and pepper seedlings with yeast, use powdered and dry yeast, briquettes and bread crumb.
Yeast Pepper Fertilizer: Recipe
200 g of dry yeast dissolve with warm water. Add a teaspoon of sugar there, and then leave for two hours. Before watering the peppers with yeast, dilute the mixture with nine liters of water.