Any vegetables planted together help each other
As recorded: Any vegetables planted together make a plant team.
This claim doesn’t hold up. Refuted
The planner won’t plan around this claim. What is known instead is below.
What is actually known
Some plant teams rest on a real way one plant acts on another. A kitchen bundle says only that you'll want these things in the same bowl. Both are good ways to plant. Only the first has plants working on each other.
The evidence
Evidence: settled without a trial (definition).
Plant teams that rest on it
- Perennial vegetable patch
- Pesto garden
- Pickling garden
- Pizza garden
- Pizza garden (patio)
- Salad garden
- Salsa garden
- Salsa garden (patio)
- Stir-fry garden
How this rule has changed
Every change is dated, newest first. The full record, with each reason, is in the data download.
- Details updated
- Added to the rules
Cite this page
Milpa Gardens. "Any vegetables planted together help each other." Evidence grade: Refuted. https://milpa.garden/rules/any-vegetables-planted-together-plant-team/
A garden planner built on graded evidence. Every claim states its evidence grade and links its sources on the page. Cite it with the grade, and add the date you read it.
How we grade evidence
- Well established
- The rule names its mechanism and is settled, by sources a person has read and checked or by plain arithmetic and geometry.
- Promising
- The mechanism is named and the literature backs it. A few questions are still open.
- A good hunch
- Plausible by its mechanism, but field studies are thin, so treat it as a lean.
- Contested
- The evidence points both ways, or no study has tested it, so the planner does not enforce it.
- Refuted
- The claim did not survive its sources. It is kept so the folklore can be answered.