Mini Bell Peppers and Cherry Tomatoes in the Auk Mini

End of last year I planted some mini bell peppers together with chilli peppers and cherry tomatoes. The cherry tomatoes appeared first with 2 bell peppers appearing next. While I have been harvesting cherry tomatoes now for a while I am still waiting to taste the bell peppers. They appeared relatively fast but grew slowly in size and stayed green until now: finally the first pepper has turned red so I believe it will be ready for eating soon. The cherry tomatoes have been delivering harvest for a few months now but in quantity the harvest is not overwhelming. I think I would have to dedicate 2 spots in my Auk mini to cherry tomatoes and nothing else in it to get a reasonable quantity for my family they form a standard ingredient in our salads. They are nice for the odd snack though. The bell peppers as you can probably guess are nowhere even near the production of the tomatoes. As for the chillies, these have progressed beyond flowers so far. But recently an abundant amount of flowers has appeared on the chilli pepper plant so I still have hopes that there will be a reasonable harvest in the near future. In defence of both the bell and chilli peppers I suspect that they have suffered from the competition with the tomato plant that dwarfed them in size early on. So far, the claim from Auk that you simply have to plant and wait to harvest is true. But finding a combination of plants that is useful for your particular situation might take some experimenting as is certainly the case for me. For Basil and Parsley the advertising does live up to expectations: plant, wait and a few weeks later you are in business with a steady supply of herbs. For the cherry tomatoes, bell peppers and chillies I planted next it is not that straight forward. My main problem today probably being that the tomato plant alone is too big in height and width for the auk mini to combine with other plants. Regardless, it is already an adventure to see the plants grow and then to taste their fruits.