If you have a backyard, get some food grade 3 or 5 gallon buckets, GARDEN soil (not the same as POTTING soil).. And start your seeds inside 8 to 10 weeks before your last frost date. 1 plant per bucket, feed every week or 2 with miracle grow or your organic alternative (blood/bone meal, fish emulsion, etc). Spicy peppers have root exudates that prevent root rot and other Fusarium diseases. Plant anywhere you have these problems (if you choose to plant them in ground).

While you should always plant chili peppers close together, providing shelter from the sun with other plants will help keep them from drying out and provide more humidity. Tomato plants, green peppers, and okra are good protection for them. Teas made from hot peppers can be useful as insect sprays. Hot peppers like to be grouped with cucumbers, eggplant, escarole, tomato, okra, Swiss chard and squash. Herbs to plant near them include: basils, oregano, parsley and rosemary. Never put them next to any beans, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts or fennel. They also work well with parsnips, but not carrots.

Hope that’s helpful.