What is up everyone?

What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined again by the

awesome Gary Palarchick of the Rusted Garden. Check him out on YouTube, check his blog out, and then also check his

upcoming book out. It's called the Modern Homestead Garden, growing self-sufficiency in any size

backyard. So, Gary, we talked a little bit about tomatoes

the last couple of days.

There's another classic summer crop

that I think we all grow to some degree or another,

and that would of course be peppers.

So first of all, kind of like the tomatoes I'd love to

know just how you like to grow them in general. So I have peppers everywhere

hot and you know sweet peppers and too hot which I don't even need I give them to friends

what I've learned over the last four years and I think is probably the most interesting tip is you can

actually grow two plants in one space and you don't give up plant size of production. In fact, you almost

double the production by just putting them really in the same planting hole, which I was always told, know you can't put two peppers together they got to be

three feet apart and a lot of that stuff I don't know where it comes from but we just

accepted as true and through experiment

I learned that I can double my production in a small footprint with peppers.

That's awesome and would that apply to any pepper or is there a specific style that that works better with?

So it really applies to all of them that the haveneros and the plants that are a little bit shorter and busier, you probably don't need to do that, but I haven't seen it really hurt any variety that I grow and I might grow 20 to 30 different varieties.

Okay, that's awesome. I think at my old garden which I still have right now

there's a couple either habaneros or Holoponios that I'm doing that with and that was an accidental move, but as you mentioned, so far at least, it doesn't seem that they're dramatically stunted or anything like that it just seems

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