raised-bed Any Considerations for Different Species In-Ground/Raised Beds?

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NJChilehead

This may seem like a crazy question but at this point I have to ask. I wanted to preface it by saying that I swear my annuums don't do as well when planted adjacent to my chinenses in raised beds (vs. being on their own).

So here's the question: have you ever noticed that certain pepper species just don't seem to play well together, maybe outcompete one another a little, when they're planted in ground or in raised beds? I'd really like to hear your input one way or the other!

Another thing: if I'm planting 3 different species of peppers in ground (annuums, baccatums and chinenses), are there any particular considerations for spacing or arranging besides the standard distance recommendations? I realize that baccatums can tend to get pretty big in similar growing conditions vs. the others, so figure they'll be on the north/east side to keep from shading the others.

As always, thank you for your help!
 
I do notice how tall/wide the plants get & try to put the shorter plants on the outside.
However I have not noticed any certain types of peppers not playing well with others.
Some peppers like Trepideria Werner snake's throughout the garden but does not affect the
other plants. Every plant is spaced 24" apart & staked, no pruning or topping.

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I've always found annums don't do as well in bags, buckets, beds, etc with narrow widths. They seem to not root very deep but expand out laterally pretty far, where as the chinenses are always fighting to get deeper than the depth of my bags. My neighbor tried growing a bed of different annums last year and they all got root bound. That bed was about 18" wide by 48" long with 6 annums some flowers, Okra, and Pease, and my 2 year old BBG7 Purple in a 7.5FlOz can was in better shape and outgrew his annums. Each year I've pulled out plants to start anew, the annums were always spiralled near the top and had the smallest root systems of everything. Last few times I grew in ground, annums were always planted within 8"-12" of other plants. Got a bit crowded but they didn't seem to mind. I believe limiting the roots has way more of an effect than what is above the soil.
 
NJChilehead said:
have you ever noticed that certain pepper species just don't seem to play well together
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I only grow in-ground, and no, I haven't noticed.

NJChilehead said:
I'm planting 3 different species of peppers in ground (annuums, baccatums and chinenses), are there any particular considerations for spacing or arranging besides the standard distance recommendations?
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Nope. Mine is an equal opportunity garden. No special treatment based on species, except maybe pubescens, but I don't grow those anymore.

NJChilehead said:
baccatums can tend to get pretty big in similar growing conditions vs. the others, so figure they'll be on the north/east side to keep from shading the others.
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Another option is to plant your taller plants on the South/West side to cast shade on others. Pepper plants don't really need more than about eight hours of sun. Those middle/late afternoon hours of the day can be brutal in the Summer, especially in Jersey, lol.
 
I have several raised beds and I grow everything in them here in Southern Quebec. I've only grown C. annuum in pots before and both the plant size and the yield were smaller compared to what I'm getting now, but maybe that was due to the size of the pot, I don't know...
 
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