Pepper

Pimiento · Poivron

Vegetable

🧩 Role in the garden

Family: Solanaceae
Height: medium (40–100 cm)
Shape: upright
Roots: medium depth
Sun: full sun
Season: warm season
Grows in: ☀ summer beds (warm season)
Feeds: medium feeder

Jobs in the bed

A plain neighbour: no special job.

Rotation

Do not return Solanaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:

How these roles work in the Guide →

✓ Good neighbours

☀❄ Grows in a different season: not at the same time in the same bed.

✗ Keep apart

None listed.

⚠ Use caution

⚠ Cornonce its silks dry, earworm moths (= tomato fruitworm) move on to nearby tomatoes, peppers & eggplants
⚠ Sorghumit is a preferred host of the corn earworm (= tomato fruitworm), so once its heads form, moths move on to nearby corn, tomatoes, peppers & eggplants

✿ Helpful flowers & herbs

✿ NasturtiumTrap crop — draws aphids & caterpillars off the crop; trailing ground cover; edible Plant slightly away from the main crop so pests move to it, not onto the crop
✿ BasilFits under tomatoes & peppers without competing; flowers attract bees