Re:Citrus and Peppers

I don't know much about mychorrhizal associations in peppers but
here are a couple of additional possibilities:
 1)Peppers produce 
more fruit when given not too much nitrogen, citrus are heavy feeders so may
have used up any excess. 2)Peppers are bee pollinated so if the citrus were
blooming when the peppers did, perhaps they benefited from their proximity
to
the citrus which are big bee attractors.

Deborah Lindsay  
Oakland, California 

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Subject:    Citrus and Peppers
Author: "Theladygardens@aol.com" <SMTP:Theladygardens@aol.com>
Date:       10/11/02 2:15 PM

Five years ago, we planted a neat and tidy row of various peppers in our
food
garden.  Then we planted the extra pepper seedlings around the yard under
our
assorted citrus trees.  The peppers in the food area did a ho hum to poor
job of
producing.  Those planted by citrus produced masses of big thick hearty
peppers,
regardless of variety of pepper or citrus.
We  have continued to do this, now only bothering to put peppers by the
citrus
trees.  One pepper planted 2-3 feet from a citrus produces more than a dozen
in
the garden area.  I move the food area around, it was all a horse pasture,
so I
continue to just move to unused areas.
My question is, do any of you scientific minds know of a reason for this?
Do
citrus tree roots contain some chemical that peppers love?  We do not get
around
to any decent fertilizer program for either the food garden or the citrus
trees, can't see that the care we give makes any difference, it seems to be
the
relationship to the citrus.
Carolyn in Los Gatos, zone 9 (stretched both ways)
theladygardens@aol.com
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