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Sunflowers & Peppers

✓ Excellent Companions

✓ Why Sunflowers and Peppers Work Well Together

✓Sunflowers provide wind protection for peppers
✓Attract pollinators beneficial to pepper flowers
✓Can serve as trap crop for aphids

🔬 How It Works (Science)

  • 1.Physical windbreak effect
  • 2.Pollinator attraction to large flower heads
  • 3.Aphid preference for sunflowers

📋 Planting Tips

1Plant sunflowers on north/windward side
2Use shorter sunflower varieties
3Sunflowers can shade peppers if too close

📏 Recommended Spacing

Sunflowers 3+ feet from pepper rows

📚 Sources & Research

  • •Windbreak research
  • •Pollinator studies
  • •Trap cropping research

Other Sunflowers Companions

Cucumbers✓ Good

Other Peppers Companions

Fennel✕ Avoid

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