Can you plant cabbage and chives together?

Charts say yes. Nobody has tested cabbage with chives, as far as we could find. The chart entry we found cites no source.

Why we can't give a firm answer

Garden charts recommend it. 1 garden chart entry recommends growing them together. It cites no source. Charts pass on gardening tradition; they are not tests.
List of companion plants (uncited entry) (Wikipedia)

What to plant with cabbage and chives

Good neighbours of both, best tested first.

TomatoWith cabbage: 34% more harvestWith chives: Fewer pests
CarrotWith cabbage: 19% more harvestWith chives: Recommended by garden charts, not tested
BroccoliWith cabbage: Lures pests awayWith chives: Recommended by garden charts, not tested

How each one was tested, with the evidence

What to keep away from cabbage and chives

BeanWith chives: Garden charts advise against it, not tested
PeaWith chives: Garden charts advise against it, not tested

The evidence in detail

For readers who want to dig in: every chart entry, study and yield trial behind the answer above, with the numbers.

Tradition, research and yield trials

Tradition

Good

avoidgood

1 chart entry: 1 recommend, 0 advise against.

0 cited, 1 uncited.

Research

No papers found on this pair.

Yield trial

No intercropping yield trial.

Untested folklore

Companion plants for both cabbage and chives

Plants that are good neighbours of each. Biggest harvest gain first; each cell links to the evidence for that pair.

Plant	With cabbage	With chives
Tomato	34% more harvest from the same spaceField trial, 4 studies. Charts: not listed.Evidence for cabbage and tomatoes	Fewer pests and less diseaseField trial, 2 studies. Charts: recommend.Evidence for chives and tomatoes
Carrot	19% more harvest from the same spaceField trial, 1 study. Charts: not listed.Evidence for cabbage and carrots	No trial foundNot tested. Charts: recommend.Evidence for chives and carrots
Broccoli	Lures pests awaySame family (Brassicaceae): shares pests and diseasesField trial, 3 studies. Charts: not listed.Evidence for cabbage and broccoli	No trial foundNot tested. Charts: recommend.Evidence for chives and broccoli

Harvest from the same space compares a bed with both crops against the same area split into single-crop beds, counting the harvest of both crops (the land equivalent ratio in yield trials).

The evidence, with sources

TraditionGood1 entry

GoodChives helps Cabbage
Chives: helps brassica (broccoli, cabbage, mustard, etc.)
List of companion plants (uncited entry) (Wikipedia)

Plan a bed with cabbage and chives

All neighbours of cabbage and of chives, or every pair at once in the companion planting chart.

Have you grown cabbage and chives together?

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