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Pepper Plants and black Plastic

John near Toledo

10 years ago

I have always wanted to have a nice crop of Pepper from my Pepper plants and would like to know if you would put black or clear plastic down if that would warm the soil and improve the yield of the peppers?

An would this even improve the yield of my tomatoes?

Comments (4)

rhashell
10 years ago
I always plat our pepper and tomatoes between rows of woven landscape silk fencing. get it at construction industry supply stores.
Rio_Grande
10 years ago
We use black plastic on raised beds with drip irrigation and they put off much more per plant that they did before without it.
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BlueBirdPeony
9 years ago
Question: are you talking about plastic to make the soil hotter ie attract sun? Have never heard of this. Can you give anymore details?
carolynk528
9 years ago
We plant in black plastic to eliminate as much weeding as possible and yes it helps produce nicer tomatoes and peppers. This year I bought woven ground cover and put it between the rows, too. As cold as the season was I think it was the only reason I got peppers this year.

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