Vegetables from the sun are fragile and delicate so plan to sow them under cover from the first months of the year in order to enjoy tasty harvests all summer long. Tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines, peppers or cucumbers should be sown early in the year in order to plant magnificent plants.
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To harvest and cook vegetables from Sun all summer, when to do sowing and how to go about it? Here are some valuable tips for making them yourself and being able to cultivate tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, peppers and many other tasty vegetables, without forgetting the melons.
What are sunny vegetables?
These vegetables soaked in the hot summer sun are tastier with the promise of bountiful harvests. Let’s quote them tomatoesthe star vegetables of the summer, pepperspeppers, cucumbers, zucchini but also the eggplant.
When to sow vegetables from the sun under cover?
Sensitive to the cold, sun vegetables must be sown in a heated shelter between 18 and 20°C. From January and this, until March or April in cold regions, you can carry out the sowing of tomatoes, zucchini or cucumbers under cover. You can make several transplants in bigger and bigger buckets before planting them directly in the garden in April in the south of France and in May everywhere else, once the last past frosts. The later you sow, the later in the year you will get harvests. season. For this, choose varieties adapted, called late.
How to sow vegetables from the sun under cover?
Here are some key steps for successful planting of sunny vegetables:
- in the bottom of a box or terrine, place sand or gravel;
- fill the container with a special sowing compost;
- with a pencil, draw lines 5 cm apart in the box or terrine and place 3 to 4 seeds in a cup;
- Place one seed every 5cm and cover the seeds 2cm thick;
- tamp down with the palm of your hand;
- mist water to bring water in fine rain;
- place a lid that you will open regularly;
- position the containers in a bright and temperate room between 18 and 20°C.
The right temperature, humidity and brightness are the three important points for successful sowing. Too cold, seedlings may freeze and vegetate. Too dark, seedlings will not develop. Too wet, seedlings will rot.
Depending on the vegetables sown, tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes or peppers, the thickness of the seed cover will change. Count about 4 times the thickness of the seed. Some will be covered by a centimeter and others by 3 cm.
Transplanting Sunshine Vegetables
When the young plants will reach between 10 and 15 cm, you can transplant them into a bucket or a larger pot. You can make several transplants and little by little, place them under a simple unheated frame, before obtaining beautiful plants, ready to be planted directly in the vegetable garden or in pots on a balcony.
The final transplanting, also called planting, will be done once the earth has warmed up and the ice saints (from May 11 to 13) are over, during the spring frost period. These vegetables need heat to develop well and produce in quantity.
Know that you can also grow them in the ground, in pots or trays on a terrace, or a balcony. Some varieties such as ‘Sweet 100’ for tomatoes, ‘Diamant’ for courgettes, ‘Crockdelis’ for cucumbers and many others are even suitable for small spaces and take up little space while producing lots of vegetables.
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