When choosing salad varieties that can grow not only in the south, but also in the northern regions, you should pay attention to the “Bull's Heart” pepper variety offered by the Siberian agricultural company “Ural Summer Resident”.
Description
"Bull's Heart" is an early-ripening variety that allows it to be grown outdoors in the Siberian region. Bush height 50 cm.
For some reason, breeders are very fond of calling varieties of various crops “bull’s heart.” Sweet pepper "Bull's heart", tomato variety "Bull's heart", cherries "Bull's Heart" Moreover, if the first two really look like a heart (anatomical, not stylized), then cherries have nothing in common with this organ, except for their large size.
The wall thickness of this variety reaches 1 cm, and the weight reaches 200 g. Ripe fruits are rich red in color.
Since the variety is productive and the fruits are quite heavy, the bushes may need a garter. It is better to stick the support for tying next to the plant at the same time as planting the seedlings, so as not to disturb the brittle stems and roots of the pepper once again.
The yield of pepper can be increased if the fruits are picked unripe at the stage of so-called technical ripeness.
In this case, the fruits must be left to ripen. Sometimes you can come across the term “ripening”. It is the same.
How to properly ripen
It should be noted that the pepper will not ripen as shown in the photo.
When ripened in the open air, the fruits begin to wither.
For each row of green fruits, one ripe vegetable must be placed. Instead of pepper, you can put a ripe tomato (there is a risk that it will start to rot) or a ripe apple. Once filled, the box is closed.
The bottom line is that the ripe fruit releases ethylene, which stimulates unripe peppers to ripen.
In this case, the newspaper will delay the spread of ethylene and the fruits will not ripen. Due to ethylene volatilization, the box cannot be kept open.
To ripen, peppers must have long tails. During the process, the fruit will still draw nutrients from the remaining cutting. You need to check your bookmark every 2-3 days. If the paper is damp, it needs to be replaced. Instead of newspapers, you can use paper napkins.
The box can also be replaced with a plastic bag lined with paper.
While the first batch of peppers is ripening in the box, the second part of the fruits has time to form and fill on the bush, thus increasing the yield.
Ox Heart pepper is a universal variety, suitable for salads, canning, culinary processing and freezing. For salad, the most delicious pepper is freshly picked from the garden, where it has ripened on the bush. For winter preservation, it is suitable when ripened in a box.
The advantages of this variety also include good keeping quality. When stored in a refrigerator or underground with an air temperature of 0-2°C, peppers can last a month longer than tomatoes or eggplants.
A large harvest can be stored in boxes with calcined river sand.Place wrapping paper or newspaper at the bottom of the box and lay the pods, sprinkling it with sand. There is no need to wash before storing, just remove surface dirt.
Inventive summer residents who do not have space to store a large harvest of peppers have found a very interesting way to reduce the volume occupied by the fruits.
Frozen pyramid
Cut out the core of ripe large fruits. We don’t throw away the core, it will come in handy. Place each pod, one at a time, in boiling water for 30 seconds.
After cooling, stack the peppers one on top, thus forming a pyramid. There is no need to worry about pushing the pods into each other. Cooked peppers are quite soft and easily inserted inside each other.
Place the finished pyramid in a plastic bag and fill the remaining voids with the core. Such a pyramid takes up little space in the freezer, allowing you to preserve even a large harvest. In winter, thawed peppers will be indistinguishable from fresh ones.
Reviews
They often touch fresh fruits in salads, since with “Bull’s Heart” it’s difficult to resist just eating fresh fruit right away.
