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Question by JAMESBROWN: Can I grow peppers in between tomato plants?
Can I grow peppers in between tomatoes? For example I have a row of tomatoes and each plant is spaced 3′ apart. In each 3′ spacing can I grow two pepper plants? Or will the roots knot up, leaves fight too much for light, or take too much nutrients out of the soil?
Thank you for your time and for sharing your knowledge.
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Answer by Herbarium Landscape Design
It is not likely that would work because a tomato would shade the peppers. Both peppers and tomatoes need a great deal of sun. The roots won’t knot up. Depending how you grow your tomatoes they make take up more space than that.
I would suggest the book All-New Square Foot Gardening and/or the website http://www.squarefootgardening.com
for more ideas on plant spacing and more.
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I have a grow box growing some tomatoes and other vegetables
i am about to grow indoors for the first time, will be converting an entire
11ft X 12 ft room to grow vegetables and fruits. i have nothing to clamp
lights to, and no overhead light fixtures to screw a bulb into. was
thinking of doing four pots with a standing lamp in the middle of the pots,
maybe 3 or 4 of those. would something like 4 Eiko 81180 – 105 Watt – CFL
bulbs be enough? will do a video once it is set up. random question would
filtered berkey water be good for plants?-no hydropnics yet
Looks good. I actually use a total of 5 300 cfls with both color sprectrums
covered. I used the buy the 300 watt eq cfls from Home Depot, but they
quite carrying them. Got the last on Amazon. This one company even had 500
watt cfls.
Looks way better! Shows what chlorine can do, even in small amounts! The
well water is probably full of “unknown” nutrients” as well.
very cool
No don’t do that! =)
When plant tomatoes and peppers plant them in separate rows. Cause the pollen from the peppers flower, can pollinate the tomatoes flowers, therefore you will have a bitter tomato, or vice-versa. Is is best to keep them separate.
Sure you can! My dad does it all the time. He’s been gardening for 50 years and seems to have an aversion to perfect, exact rows so there is always a mixture of vege plants here and there including peppers and tomatoes together.
The trendy name for it is companion planting, where plants help each other out by providing better soil or air conditions or repelling bad bugs for example.
When it comes to peppers, they like high humidity and direct sunlight. However, direct sunlight can harm the peppers so tomatoes provide some shade which actually helps to raise the humidity.
Give it a go with a few plants and see how it works out for your specific conditions.
Alot of people will say not to do this because you are crowding the plants to much and they might struggle for nutrients. I don’t think this will be the case for you and would suggest that if you want to do this, just try a few this year. I don’t typically plant peppers between tomatoes, but I have done it on occassion and it worked out fine. Good luck. Also, one of the other answerers mentioned companion plants, I put together a planting guide that does include companion plants, hope it helps:
http://getready2garden.com/page7.html
http://getready2garden.com
If your tomatoes are three feet apart, the peppers would be eighteen inches away from the tomatoes. That gives the pepper plant’s roots nine inches of space, which is OK. But the tomato roots will want to spread more than nine inches. The tomato plant won’t suffer if it’s root space is constricted that much on one side, but it can’t tolerate that much competition on all sides.
The tomatoes will also shade the peppers; how much depends on the angle of the row to the sun. A better choice for that space would be basil. Basil produces strong scent that can confuse some pests searching for tomatoes, and the shade will slow it down from bolting to seed in the heat. You can also control the size and root competition by picking leaves.
If you build rich soil and provide plenty of water, plants can stand quite a bit of root competition- think of how tall and healthy weeds in an abandoned field grow. But you also need working space to pull weeds and pick fruit. Plants also do better if air can circulate freely under the leaves so dew doesn’t sit on them in the morning and develop fungus.
Bottom line- if you have small space you can pack plants tightly, but it takes a lot of work. Much easier and more effective to rip up a little more of the lawn.