What Crops Can Be Interplanted with Chili Peppers? These 4 Crops Are Recommended

Chili peppers are an essential seasoning for every household. In rural areas, basically every family grows a few chili pepper plants, so that whenever they want to eat some, they can just go to the field and pick a few to bring home. Here in the author's hometown, there is a habit of planting a large patch of chili peppers, but those are grown to sell. If a family is not growing chili peppers to sell, they generally only plant around 20 plants for their own consumption. But what is good to plant in the remaining land area? What crops can chili peppers be planted together with? It is recommended to interplant them with these 4 crops.

1. What crops can chili peppers be planted together with?

In fact, chili peppers can be interplanted with sweet potatoes, corn, melons, and chives. The specific methods are as follows:

1. Interplanting chili peppers with sweet potatoes

In the author's hometown, this planting practice exists. To save plot area, after planting the chili peppers, sweet potato vines are planted around the chili peppers, using the advantage of sweet potato vines growing on the ground surface to manage flowering in the chili pepper field. During the season when the chili peppers ripen, picking is done quite frequently. To avoid stepping on and injuring the sweet potato vines, they are turned over, and at this time it is very beneficial for the sweet potato vines to set tubers.

2. Interplanting chili peppers with corn

Interplanting chili peppers with corn is also a very common method. Corn is generally consumed mainly as a coarse grain, not as a staple food, so sometimes people also interplant different varieties of corn in the chili pepper field, such as sweet corn, waxy corn, and so on. The reason for interplanting corn in the chili pepper field is that corn has a relatively short growth cycle, and its main stalk is taller than the chili pepper plants, giving a certain shading effect, so interplanting it in the chili pepper field is mostly beneficial and not harmful.

3. Interplanting chili peppers with melons

Because melons are vine-type green plants, growing them in the chili pepper field can have a weed-suppressing effect. After the melon seedlings grow, the vines will occupy the idle space in the chili pepper field and will compete with various weeds for nutrients and growing space, so weeds simply cannot grow in places where melon seedlings are abundant. And the chili pepper plants can also provide shade for the melons, so the melon seedlings will not be scorched by the sun.

4. Interplanting chili peppers with chives

Usually chives can be planted around April. If the temperature in your area is relatively high, you can also plant them earlier. Because chives have short stalks, they can be planted on both sides of the chili pepper field. However, it should be noted that when interplanting, since the chili pepper seedlings are relatively tall, you must pay attention to spacing, so that the chives can get sufficient sunlight, ventilation, and so on, which is good for their growth; otherwise, it will affect the yield.

Interplanting chili peppers with the above four crops can save a certain amount of space and fertilizer, and interplanting is also helpful for improving crop quality, because they can benefit each other. Did your family plant chili peppers this year? Hurry and make use of the extra area!