note to self
 

note to self : next year don't plant the peppers between the cherry tomatoes! lol the second -forth and sixth buckets from the left are pepper plants. or from the right i guess too! lol

well, you sure can't complain about your healthy mater plants! What do you use for potting mix to get those results?

That is a strong, healthy looking jungle. Nice problem to have lol.:)

lol jungle is right! peppers are trying to get above them , only a couple of low blossoms and peppers starting, all the rest of the blossoms are high, not as many as last year,pretty sure they need a bit more sun, was gone for 5 days and the tomatoes got out of control, the soil mix is just peat---compost---perlite---garden lime-- and 10-10-10 fert.

think i should have put the peppers on the ends! lol next year!

well the peppers are happy now that a few of the tomato plants are gone!
here is a list of tomato prodution in the gutter grow system,
red rose---13 (did'nt care for taste)
celebrity---22 (10 still ripening on plant)
mountain merit---28 (6 still ripening)
bush beef steak--19 (a few still ripening)
believe it or not----20 (2 still ripening, )
burpee early girl---53 (good producer)
bush early girl--(did'nt count, they were red but hard and tasteless, used for
sauce with lots of spices lol)
2 sun gold and 1 super sweet 100's-- thousands
big zac---20 (was grown in the ground)
so there you have it!---tom

encore, your using the rain gutter system with that? I really like the looks of the stand
you built. How long is it?

10 foot rain gutter, i'm going with less buckets next year, (too crowded) pretty sure 9 buckets would fit if you wanted them that close.

I have one row of pepper plants in my RGGS with 7 plants thats working good for me. Now that the plants are bigger and producing more they are catching up with my other peppers that I top water. Early on I think they were getting too wet. My problem this year is I am not getting any heat out of my reg. jalopeno or biker billy or cherry bomb or cayenne.Hopefully watering them less will bring some heat.