If the greenhouse is small, but you want to plant more, you start to wonder if it is possible to plant cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers together in the greenhouse, will the yield fall from this, will this harm the plants? Having rummaged through the gusts of our knowledge, having talked with experienced gardeners, we will try to give an answer to this very important question.
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Cucumber tomato is not a brother?
There is a saying among the people: if you can’t, but really want to, then you can. So here, if there is no other way out - try it, many succeed. But - the result can be disastrous and explain why.
Different plants require their own microclimate, soil moisture, fertilizing, ventilation requirements and more. Here cucumbers, for example, love a humid atmosphere, do not want to be often aired, they want to feel the damp all the time wet. Tomatoes, on the contrary. Give them dry air in the greenhouse, but ventilate more often - that’s the inconsistency. What is good for a Russian is a German seam, so people say, and this is precisely what comes from the neighborhood in a greenhouse of tomatoes and cucumbers.
And yet - the increased humidity, so beloved by cucumbers, for tomatoes can turn into late blight and fungal sores. For cucumbers, dry air, beloved by tomatoes, will turn into falling ovaries and, as a result, a recession in the crop.
Pepper stands in the middle between them, and, as it were, it can side by side with one group, and it does not require too cardinal differences between the content of tomatoes and cucumbers in another. Peppers can get along with cucumbers, and with tomatoes. Let's look at what are the possible options for planting all the plants together in the greenhouse so as not to harm the crop. By the way, onions and salad get along well with cucumbers.
How to reconcile neighbors?
Our people will always find a way out, moreover, even from a seemingly difficult situation, because such options were invented by our summer residents.
Split space
Plant tomatoes under one wall of the greenhouse, cucumbers - under the second, hang in the middle of a transparent film, and now you have the opportunity to arrange a different microclimate for cucumbers and tomatoes. If, nevertheless, the greenhouse is small, and they, even separated by a film, are nearby, you also need to separate the soil by digging a sheet of iron or slate between them.
The second option - without a release film (for a greenhouse more spacious)
We expand the greenhouse so that it is possible to plant cucumbers along the shady side to the northwest, in the middle of the tomato, peppers on the sides to the southwest. Next - you arrange drop watering for cucumbers and peppers (at least attach empty bottles between the bushes) - look in more detail, how to arrange drip irrigation in a greenhouse. Tomatoes under a bush once a week to the blade, drink water and it will be enough.
Tip: Push the cucumbers away from the drafts, tomatoes - settle on the most ventilated area.
So, if you adhere to these recommendations, and will not risk the crop, your plants will coexist perfectly in the greenhouse and will please you with abundant fruiting.
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Igor
I have 2 greenhouses in the country: one for tomatoes, the other for peppers. Cucumbers are “guests” in one or the other. It gets along well together, but I have a few tricks. Firstly, in greenhouses I grow only early cucumbers, respectively, by the time of the main development of fruits in peppers and tomatoes, cucumbers are no longer there. Second, if they come to “live” together for a long time, I place a narrow strip of cucumbers on the north or west side of the greenhouse (where there is less sun) and let them vertically up. So it is very convenient to regulate watering and ventilation.
As for the physical separation of space in one greenhouse, to be honest, I did not see a special effect. The usual track is enough. After all, in fact, there are two criteria: watering and airing.
Sofia
I also have tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers growing together in a greenhouse. But I didn’t even think that they didn’t live very well together. Here I am such an unimportant gardener. Nevertheless, I always have them all grown well. I do not divide the space; I plant it, as it seems convenient. Maybe my convenience is just right in an agronomic sense. I divide the greenhouse into two beds. On the one hand, I plant tomatoes, mostly early undersized and photofluoro-resistant. And on the second side, I have peppers and cucumbers that grow near the wall of the greenhouse and rise along the walls along the supports.