What plants can be planted next to hot peppers?

Experienced gardeners know that some plants, growing in close proximity to each other, grow and develop much better and faster. And sometimes there is a completely opposite result, up to the death of one or both plants. With a shortage of free space on the site, many gardeners are thinking about where to plant hot peppers so as not to harm its green neighbors.

Nice neighborhood for hot pepper

In order to get a rich harvest, all means are good. Why not take advantage of the fruitful neighborhood with other plants? You just need to know for sure which "neighbor" is a friend of the bitter pepper and can not only contribute to its rapid growth, but also become an antiparasitic defense.

Crops next to which it is best to plant hot peppers:

1. eggplant;
2. spices;
3. some types of weeds;
4. a tomato;
5. greenery.

Let us tell you more about "good neighborly relations" in the garden.

• Eggplant

Very helpful and comfortable neighborhood. Convenient - because the specifics of caring for these vegetables are quite similar. Both eggplant and hot pepper need the same temperature and humidity, and the same fertilizers are used for feeding. They feed, huddle, cut off the tops almost at the same time. Plants thrive in the same greenhouse, which allows the gardener to save precious plots of land in the garden.

• Spices

The influence of dill, thyme, basil on the taste of pepper is very noticeable, these qualities become much better. Therefore, these herbs can be sown next to hot pepper on purpose.

• Weeds

Surprisingly, the proximity to some types of weeds really turns out to be beneficial for the pepper. This can be, for example, nettle, chamomile or dandelion, which affects the rate of fruit ripening. But this does not mean that the pepper bush should grow to the very top in the weeds! It is necessary to weed the bed with pepper, since weeds are a kind of parasite that draws all useful substances from the ground, which negatively affects the development of a cultivated plant. Most suitable is some useful weed left on the edge of the hole or bed.

• Tomatoes

In the climatic conditions of central Russia, it is still better to plant bitter peppers in a greenhouse. Only then can an earlier and richer harvest be obtained. Usually, a whole garden is not given for hot peppers, but they are planted to some plants. Tomatoes are very well suited for this purpose. And garlic planted between tomato and pepper will drive away possible pests from them.

• Greenery

Hot pepper has very good compatibility with green leaves, for example, lettuce, spinach, basil, dill. He also treats well the neighborhood with cabbage, carrots, onions, marigolds... The main thing is that there is no shade: because of its warmth and photophilousness, hot pepper does not tolerate shade. And if it so happened that the hot pepper still ended up in the shade, then the plant will lag behind in development - and you can not expect a good harvest.

Advice

To get a good harvest, it is better to plant not one, but two or three peppers in one hole. Make sure that there are peppers of the same variety in one hole.

Neighborhood Plants

Every gardener gains over the years experience in growing vegetables on his site and eventually discovers that each vegetable needs an individual approach.Plants are not always ready to help each other, it often happens that the neighborhood does not bring positive results, but, on the contrary, has a detrimental effect on nearby plants. In addition to "friends", bitter pepper has "enemies".

What is not recommended to plant hot peppers next to?

1. Fennel. Fennel growing nearby with pepper has a depressing effect on it, the bush develops slowly and bears fruit poorly, and often simply dies.
2. Beet. Has the same effect as fennel.
3. Bell pepper. This neighborhood is fraught with a loss of sharpness for bitter pepper, and for a sweet one, with a loss of sweetness and the appearance of pungency. This occurs as a result of cross-pollination.

Bitter pepper on the windowsill

Hot pepper is one of the most unpretentious plants. In addition, in addition to benefits, it brings extraordinary beauty and brightness to the world, and therefore, sitting on the windowsill, is a wonderful decoration of the apartment.

There are two ways to grow hot peppers in an apartment:

1. through sowing seeds;
2. through transplanting a plant from open ground into a flower pot.

To grow bitter peppers from seeds, you need very little: a container with soil, seeds of the desired variety, space on the windowsill and good lighting. If watering and feeding is carried out on time, then in a couple of months it will be possible to admire the cherished bush, strewn with small cute fruits.

Advice

For planting bitter peppers, it is not recommended to use seeds from fruits purchased at a store or market. Better to buy a bag of seeds from a specialized department.

And you can do it even easier: transplant the pepper bush from the garden into a large flower pot, put it on the windowsill and water it regularly. Soon it will bloom again and bear fruit. Until summer, it can give two more crops. Moreover, bitter pepper bears fruit in one place for at least five years.

Useful properties of hot pepper

A bush of pepper growing in an apartment not only pleases the eye with its beauty, but also heals the indoor climate, as its fruits have bactericidal properties. In addition, the beneficial effect of hot pepper on other plants in the immediate vicinity was noticed: harmful insects bypass them.

Advice

Tincture of hot pepper will help in the fight against aphids, whitefly and caterpillars.

Insect tincture recipe

1. Take 0.1 kg of fresh hot pepper in 1 liter of water.
2. Simmer for an hour.
3. Next, the liquid must be infused for two days.
4. After rubbing the fruits, drain.
5. Dilute one part of the solution in ten parts of water, add 1 tbsp. l. laundry soap.
6. Spray plants affected by insects, not forgetting about the soil.

Varieties of bitter pepper

The homeland of small-fruited peppers sold in stores or in markets is, as a rule, Southeast Asia with its specific climate. Most likely, the hot pepper supplied to Russia is an industrial variety, which means that the plant on which it grew could be about two meters in height, because it is less profitable to grow small bushes on an industrial scale. These varieties may have specific requirements for both lighting and nutrition. It follows that such varieties of hot peppers are quite difficult to grow in a personal garden, and there is no question of an apartment!

Advice

For apartment cultivation, choose the small-fruited C. Anuum (Vegetable Pepper). He has a small root system, respectively, the stem height is also relatively small - within 50 cm. Many qualities of their wild ancestors are inherent in such peppers: they can easily tolerate a lack of lighting and even a loose shade.

Bitter pepper is a very healthy vegetable that will not only add spice to dishes, but also enrich them with a whole bunch of vitamins that are so necessary for the human body.And if you plant it on a vegetable flower bed, which is now fashionable, it will not only become its decoration, but also protect it from harmful insects. Considering all of the above, we can conclude: bitter pepper should be present in every garden or apartment!