To get a good crop of pepper, you need to know the agronomic features of planting and growing this crop and sow pepper for seedlings in time.

Favorable days according to the lunar calendar are best for this.

What features of pepper cultivation you need to know:

  • Soil for sowing should be fertile, preferably without peat with a reaction closer to neutral. 

  • When growing seedlings, you need to focus on the length of the daylight hours.

    It should be at least 12 hours.

    If it is shorter, it will affect the development of seedlings.

  • Pepper is a heat-loving plant, pepper seedlings are transplanted into open soil when the soil warms up to +16...+17 °C.

    But if the temperature drops to +14 ° C, plants immediately stop growing. 

  • Pepper loves moisture, requires watering, but does not like waterlogging. 

In summary, we can say that pepper is a heat-loving culture that needs an optimal temperature, a sufficient amount of lighting and a long day.

In addition to these factors regarding the timing of planting, one should take into account where the peppers are planned to be planted - in open ground or a greenhouse, what variety and whether seed preparation was carried out.

Agronomic terms for planting pepper seedlings:

  • Peppers are planted in open ground in mid-May, early June.

  • In the greenhouse - in the middle, end of April.

Since well-developed bushes in the stage of active vegetation are suitable for transplanting seedlings, and they become such after 60-70 days, you can calculate the term of sowing pepper seeds for seedlings in the reverse way.

So, if you sum up the time needed for the growth of seedlings and add to it the time of germination of seedlings, which is approximately 10-12 days, then it is easy to calculate that for 

transplanting into a greenhouse, you need to sow seeds for seedlings in early or mid-February 2023.

For open ground - in March 2023.

When to sow pepper seeds for seedlings according to the lunar calendar in 2023

Plants react differently to different phases of the lunar cycle - during the growing moon, growth processes are activated, and in the waning phase, the root system expands and the stems thicken.


Planting seeds or seedlings on favorable days has a positive effect on yield. 

  • During the growing lunar phase, the greatest amount of moisture is retained at the top of the root system.

    Therefore, young plants that need abundant watering should be planted on these days.

  • Full moon is the best time to plant pepper and other crops.

  • Decreasing phase – moisture does not linger on the surface, but quickly descends to the lower root part.

    Therefore, such a period is suitable for root crops, pepper is not, so it is not necessary to sow pepper during this phase. 

  • The new moon is unfavorable for garden work, even for watering plants.

Favorable days in 2023 for sowing pepper are the following days:

  • February - 3, 4, from 7 to 14, 22-23.

  • March - 6-8, 10-13, 15-17, 21-23, 29-30.

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