"DigitalVinyl" wrote:
Yeilds can really vary. Some of mine were prolific little buggers..
18-20 bell peppers in a square foot container.

Do you mean one plant produced 18 to 20 at one time? Or do mean
several plants produced 18 to 20 throughout a whole year? I got
perhaps 18 to 20 serrano peppers off of one plant this year, but I
pulled maybe a dozen at one time then waited a couple weeks to
pull the other dozen. And it's got another dozen on the way. A cherry
tomato plant seems to have worked wonders on it / for it, planted
within an inch of each other.

Unfortunately each of my belle peppers produce a two or three peppers
every 3 months. I'm tempted to put a tomato plant in with them to see
what kind of effect that might have. I've planted green manure plants in
with them (peas), and then some basil in with another. The basil grew
really well so it appears that the belle peppers make a great companion
plant for the lemon basil plant, but it's hard to say that works the other
way.

Jim Carlock
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