They’ll be fine, spacings are more for commercial farms. Train the front ones away from the back ones with stakes and fertilize and you’ll get solid harvests. If you start getting overlapping branches or they start growing into each other just prune those ones away. Also depends what variety you’re growing but as long as they’re not enormous you should be fine.
muttons_1337
Those look like Birdies Raised Beds! Got the 15″ tall ones? What do you think of them? I sprang for some random Amazon 24″ tall beds, also 8′ long. But I’m wondering if yours are made of sturdier stuff.
blueheatspices
You may run into a little stunting, depending on how their root structures grow. But overall, peppers do well being somewhat close to each other. You actually want a pretty good canopy between them to provide shade for the fruit.
When it comes to harvesting, be prepared for a bit of a struggle getting in there. It’s gonna be thick. I had mine 18 inches apart last year in the ground, and I was literally wading through them. It kinda sucked, so this year I put them about 2 feet apart in their rows, with about 3-4 feet between each row.
huge43
I like 30 inches apart as a sweet spot. I’ve found I get bigger, better yields, easier harvesting and healthier plants.
icomebearingflowers
You’ll be fine.
gentle_badger
Wow – I just finished an identical setup! 2 8x2x2 raised “watering troth” planters. I only put 5 cayenne varieties in one of the planters and used the other for tomatoes. I did plant onion starts around the periphery of the cayennes. All my other pepper starts went into grow bags. Please post later this season – wondering if I was much too conservative and could have put more in the raised bed vs grow bags!
Strange_Forever_1733
Peppers don’t mind crowding. Like rats in a cage, it’s all good with plenty of food and water.
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And yes, my toddler did assist in digging.
They’ll be fine, spacings are more for commercial farms. Train the front ones away from the back ones with stakes and fertilize and you’ll get solid harvests. If you start getting overlapping branches or they start growing into each other just prune those ones away. Also depends what variety you’re growing but as long as they’re not enormous you should be fine.
Those look like Birdies Raised Beds! Got the 15″ tall ones? What do you think of them? I sprang for some random Amazon 24″ tall beds, also 8′ long. But I’m wondering if yours are made of sturdier stuff.
You may run into a little stunting, depending on how their root structures grow. But overall, peppers do well being somewhat close to each other. You actually want a pretty good canopy between them to provide shade for the fruit.
When it comes to harvesting, be prepared for a bit of a struggle getting in there. It’s gonna be thick. I had mine 18 inches apart last year in the ground, and I was literally wading through them. It kinda sucked, so this year I put them about 2 feet apart in their rows, with about 3-4 feet between each row.
I like 30 inches apart as a sweet spot. I’ve found I get bigger, better yields, easier harvesting and healthier plants.
You’ll be fine.
Wow – I just finished an identical setup! 2 8x2x2 raised “watering troth” planters. I only put 5 cayenne varieties in one of the planters and used the other for tomatoes. I did plant onion starts around the periphery of the cayennes. All my other pepper starts went into grow bags. Please post later this season – wondering if I was much too conservative and could have put more in the raised bed vs grow bags!
Peppers don’t mind crowding. Like rats in a cage, it’s all good with plenty of food and water.