planting peppers in 5 gal buckets?

[sheeshshe]

I can't remember if I ever asked this before or not, but do peppers do well in 5 gallon buckets? I always heard that peppers like to be close together, but is it the plants themselves or the roots? bc I have a bunch of 5g buckets right up next to each other filled with garden soil from last year that I had tomatoes in, but they weren't quite big enough for tomatoes. I thought peppers would be bettr? what do you thinK?

[sheeshshe]

thanks! changing the soil would be useless for me, only because my whole yard is infiltrated with fungus. it will get on the plants regardless of changing the soil. I have so many types of fungus going on it is crazy.