Now, I've always been told that you cannot grow Peppers and Chilli peppers in the same greenhouse / polytunnel at the same time, because they are too closely related and will not produce fruit if you do.
That sounded like a challenge to me, and always up for a challenge, I decided to see, more out of curiosity than anything, what would happen if you did plant the two plants side by side.
Sweet Peppers
Chilli Peppers
These two plants are less than half a metre away from each other and seem to be thriving, (that's the same yellow leaf of a cucumber plant in the photo's).
Having read several books on the subject of growing peppers and chillies, I find that nowhere in these books does it say that you cannot grow them together, in fact they are both in the same family as tomatoes, potatoes and aubergines and should be treated as such for rotation purposes. Both are reasonably easy to grow, suffer from little problems - the usual slugs, aphids and red spider mite; the main problem being blossom end rot, ie. lack of sufficient water, but if you're seeing that on peppers then you'll be seeing it on your tomatoes too and bells should start ringing in your head to give them all more water.
So I shall continue to plant all my peppers and chillies together and not listen to other people's ideas until I have thoroughly checked them out. To think I had been panicking about not getting any peppers or chillies - that'll learn me, as they say here in Norfolk!
Stats today -
Eggs produced = 12
Sales -
1 dozen eggs £1.80
1 x 500g Carrots £0.75
1 x Oregano plant £0.50
Expenses -
Nil
We've always grown chillies and sweet peps in same polytunnel without problems.
ReplyDeleteOh good, glad to know someone else has no problems - thanks for letting me know
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