Milpa Gardens

What we don’t know

187 of the numbers behind these plans are ones this project does not stand behind. Here they are.

Every measurement in the corpus carries a confidence tier. Most are recorded from a land-grant extension publication and checked. These are not: they are either estimated — a plausible figure nobody has confirmed against a source — or contested, where the sources disagree with each other. The planner still uses them, because a garden plan needs a number and refusing to plan is not more honest than planning with a stated estimate. What it will not do is let you believe they are measurements.

This list is generated from the corpus itself, so it cannot go stale: a number leaves this page the day it is verified, and a new estimate appears the day it is recorded.

Contested · 4

The sources disagree. Where a plan depends on one of these, the app says so at the point it matters rather than here.

Estimated · 183

Plausible, unconfirmed, and used as a working figure until someone reads a source that settles it.

All plants · The rules · Folklore, checked