How to Use Peppers as a Companion Plant

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Peppers are a popular garden plant. You can grow either sweet or hot varieties, so there are some for every taste and recipe. Peppers also make great companions to many other vegetables and herbs, so grow a bumper crop of peppers this year. Read on for advice on growing healthy and delicious peppers.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Pepper seedlings or seeds
A garden or planting area

Step1

It's better to use seedlings for your pepper crop, because seeds can be slow to germinate. Place plants about 1 1/2 to 2 feet apart, but if you're planting hot peppers you can plant them closer together.

Step2

Plant peppers near onions and carrots to enhance the flavor and growth of the peppers. They also get along well with loveage, basil, marjoram, and oregano. Plant peppers near taller plants that provide some shade in hot weather, as peppers can lose their blossoms (and thus the fruit), in extremely hot weather.

Step3

Peppers don't like kohlrabi or fennel, and it's good to keep them away from beans, too.

Step4

Peppers like full sun and well-drained soil that is very rich. It's a good idea to fertilize pepper plants with fish emulsion when the plants are flowering; it will increase production. Harvest peppers when they change color.