My First Attempt to Plant Bell Pepper in a Pot

afterglow (73)Hive Gardenerin HiveGarden • 3 years ago

Greetings!

Planting in a pot has been one of my plans when I started gardening (vegetable gardening). To be exact I started my vegetable gardening way back in July of 2021. But the lot that I am going to use in my vegetable gardening has been ready for less than a decade. In the span of less than a decade my garden has been sparely planted with some fruit-bearing trees whenever I got home once a year.

I also fell in love with planting vegetables in a pot (especially Bell Pepper) when I first saw them on the internet.

By the way, this is actually a very late blog since I am also busy with our rice farm.

What I Used in Planting Bell Pepper

My plan of planting bell pepper in a pot actually has no definite time since I am only waiting for my wife to buy bell pepper to be used as an ingredient in our everyday cooking.

And when she bought bell pepper and prepared it for cooking I immediately grabbed all the seeds.

Some bell pepper seeds that I am going to plant

Here in my hometown, we are used to using black soil as a starting medium in planting our organic vegetables (we even used it as a transplanting mix if we got lots of it).

The black soil that I am going to use as a starting mix together with some fine sand

And as the title implies this is my first time planting bell pepper in a pot (I will also going to transplant them using the same size of the pot and hope they will healthy.

In addition to the black soil, I will be adding some fine sand to the black soil to complete my starting mix/medium.

Some fine sand that I am going to combine with black soil as starting mix

I intend to plant as much bell pepper as possible so I bought some pot for the germination process and also for the transplanting later.

The pot that I am going to use

And of course, I am going to need some water for the newly planted bell pepper.

Some water

Planting Bell Pepper

I first put about 80 percent black soil into the pot

Gettings some black soil

Putting black soil on the pot

I then added 20 percent fine sand to complete my starting mix/medium

Putting some fine sand

Mix the starting mix/medium. You can actually mix them before putting them into the pot.

Mixing the fine sand and the black soil

After I mixed my starting mix/medium, I then sprinkle some seeds on top of my starting mix/medium.

Putting the seeds into the pot

And here's how it looks like after I sprinkled some seeds on my starting mix/medium. You can definitely put fewer seeds if you want to.

Here's how it looks like after a put the seeds into the pot

Then I put some black soil on top of the seeds (about 1/2 inch thickness).

Putting some black soil on top of the bell pepper seeds

After I put some black soil on top I put enough water to complete my planting process.

Watering the bell pepper

And that is how my first experience of planting bell pepper in a pot goes. Have a nice day and Happy New Year to everyone!

after watering

Here's a short video of me while I am planting bell pepper

I am a Computer Engineer, blogger, farmer, father, and husband. I love countryside living, nature, farming (rice/vegetables), and has two decades of experience as an I.T. professional