32 Companion Plants to Grow With Your Peppers
30.05.2024 - 21:01
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Companion planting in the garden can serve several purposes, ranging from maximizing garden space to attracting beneficial insects and pollinators to luring insect pests away from other food crops.
Both sweet and hot peppers benefit from companion planting (much like their fellow nightshade, the tomato). In fact, herbs like basil, chives, and oregano, along with vegetables such as carrots and onions, are excellent choices for companion planting with peppers.
Here are the herbs, flowers, and vegetables that will best complement your pepper patch.
Arguably one of the most popular summer herbs, basil is great on its own, but also has a place next to and around pepper plants. It's claimed that growing basil next to peppers boosts their flavor, and may help to repel some common garden pests, such as aphids, spider mites, thrips, mosquitoes, and flies.Plus, pesto!
Growing chives near peppers can help to deter aphids and other insects.Chives are also said to add to the flavor and yields of plants nearby. Chives are a handy and flavorful kitchen herb, and because it's a perennial, a single planting can come back year after year.
Growing carrots around peppers can help to shade out some of the weeds, providing a living mulch. These companion plants are also a great way to maximize space in the garden. Plus, who doesn't love a fresh carrot, straight from the soil?
Onions don't take up a lot of room above the ground, and they can deter many common insect pests in the garden, such as aphids, slugs, and cabbage worms, making them a good companion plant for peppers.Besides the onion bulb itself, onion greens can be clipped throughout the season as an addition to salads and other fresh vegetable dishes.
Swiss chard is another