Plant teams
30 plant teams. The list is short on purpose. A plant team is here only if it names the reason it works, or says plainly it has none. There’s no companion-planting chart, and there won’t be.
Teams that help each other
Plants that do something for each other, with the reason named. The best-backed come first.
- Four Sisters needs 4 m²43 ft² · Mixed planting · Well backed by the evidence · Adapted from Three Sisters
- Melon Sisters needs 4 m²43 ft² · Mixed planting · Well backed by the evidence
- Milpa needs 50 m²540 ft² · Mixed planting · Well backed by the evidence
- Sweet-potato milpa needs 4 m²43 ft² · Mixed planting · Well backed by the evidence
- Three Sisters needs 4 m²43 ft² · Mixed planting · Well backed by the evidence
- Brassicas with aromatic herbs needs 1 m²11 ft² · Mixed planting · Partly backed by the evidence
- Carrot, chive and lettuce needs 1 m²11 ft² · Mixed planting · Partly backed by the evidence
- Carrot, onion and dill needs 1 m²11 ft² · Mixed planting · Partly backed by the evidence
- Dry herb bed needs 1.5 m²16 ft² · Perennial team · Partly backed by the evidence
- Melon Sisters (small bed) needs 1.5 m²16 ft² · Mixed planting · Partly backed by the evidence · Adapted from Melon Sisters
- Perimeter trap crop needs 8 m²86 ft² · Mixed planting · Partly backed by the evidence
- Summer shade salad needs 4 m²43 ft² · Mixed planting · Partly backed by the evidence
- Sweet-potato milpa (small bed) needs 1.5 m²16 ft² · Mixed planting · Partly backed by the evidence · Adapted from Sweet-potato milpa
- Three Sisters (small bed) needs 1.5 m²16 ft² · Mixed planting · Partly backed by the evidence · Adapted from Three Sisters
- Tomatillo pair needs 4 m²43 ft² · Mixed planting · Partly backed by the evidence
- Tomatillo pair (small bed) needs 3 m²32 ft² · Mixed planting · Partly backed by the evidence · Adapted from Tomatillo pair
- Forage strip needs 1 m²11 ft² · Mixed planting · Not backed yet
Trees and shrubs with their rings
A tree, a shrub or a vine at the center, its understory in rings out to the drip line.
- Blackberry hedge needs 3 m²32 ft² · Perennial team · Partly backed by the evidence
- Blueberry ring needs 3 m²32 ft² · Perennial team · Partly backed by the evidence
- Currant ring needs 4 m²43 ft² · Perennial team · Partly backed by the evidence
- Fruit tree ring needs 25 m²270 ft² · Perennial team · Partly backed by the evidence
- Fruit tree ring (dwarf) needs 9 m²97 ft² · Perennial team · Partly backed by the evidence · Adapted from Fruit tree ring
- Grape arbor needs 6 m²65 ft² · Perennial team · Partly backed by the evidence
- Kiwi arbor needs 9 m²97 ft² · Perennial team · Partly backed by the evidence
Kitchen and cutting bundles
Grouped because you use them together. They don’t help each other, and each page says so.
- Cutting garden needs 1.5 m²16 ft² · Cutting bundle · Grown to cut
- Perennial vegetable patch needs 3 m²32 ft² · Kitchen bundle · Chosen for the kitchen
- Pesto garden needs 0.5 m²5 ft² · Kitchen bundle · Chosen for the kitchen
- Pickling garden needs 1.5 m²16 ft² · Kitchen bundle · Chosen for the kitchen
- Pizza garden needs 2.5 m²27 ft² · Kitchen bundle · Chosen for the kitchen
- Pizza garden (patio) needs 1 m²11 ft² · Kitchen bundle · Chosen for the kitchen · Adapted from Pizza garden
- Salad garden needs 3 m²32 ft² · Kitchen bundle · Chosen for the kitchen
- Salsa garden needs 3 m²32 ft² · Kitchen bundle · Chosen for the kitchen
- Salsa garden (patio) needs 1 m²11 ft² · Kitchen bundle · Chosen for the kitchen · Adapted from Salsa garden
- Stir-fry garden needs 1.5 m²16 ft² · Kitchen bundle · Partly backed by the evidence
- Summer greens needs 1.5 m²16 ft² · Kitchen bundle · Chosen for the kitchen
Rest and cover
Cover crops that rest the soil and set up next season’s crop.
- Rotation break needs 0.3 m²3 ft² · Rest and cover · A rest for the soil
- Summer legume break needs 0.3 m²3 ft² · Rest and cover · A rest for the soil
- Winter cover pair needs 0.3 m²3 ft² · Rest and cover · A rest for the soil
Systems the planner does not place
Written up so you know what they are. They’re out of scope for a garden bed.
- Chinampa Not for a bed · Not backed yet
- Rice, fish and duck Not for a bed · Not backed yet