Help me decide what to do with this plant...

[StephandOwen]

I have a smallish garden that we built this year (raised bed- pics in my blog, click my name). I got over-excited and wanted to plant EVERYTHING. LOL! Which means I planted too many things and now some of them are getting too crowded. My jalapeno plant is being over-shadowed by zucchini leaves, and I'm sure the zucchini plant will continue to grow for a couple more months. So.... choices are...

a) leave the jalapeno where it is and hope for the best (it's not getting too much sun right now since it's, literally, under the zucchini plant) or

b) carefully dig up the jalapeno plant and transplant it to a different part of the garden (I could plant it by 2 other pepper plants, I think there might be enough room but at least it'll have a chance there).

It's still fairly early in the growing season (kentucky- first frost isn't until 10/10) so would it have time to recover from transplant shock?

This is my only jalapeno plant and I'll be so sad to see it not make it

[cristeen]

How about retraining the zuke? You'll need to tie it to something, but don't let the leaves overhang it. That'd be the very first thing I tried - since it's the easiest.

[serenetabbie]

How do you train zucchini? Since I have no idea how to do that (but would love to learn since mine also get crazy big!))... I would move the pepper to either over by the other two or put in in a pot. Peppers, IME, do well in pots. Your garden is super cute Steph

[shaywyn]

Originally Posted by serenetabbie

I would move the pepper to either over by the other two or put in in a pot. Peppers, IME, do well in pots.

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[jocelyndale]

Just remember--if those other peppers are sweet and there's a jalapeno nearby, the fruit will likely have very hot seeds.

I'd trim the zuke leaves which are near the jalapeno. Or move the zuke vines very carefully away from the jalapeno.

You could certainly transplant the jalapeno, though.