Tradition
Good
avoidgood
4 chart entries: 4 recommend, 0 advise against.
All entries cite a source.
Pea
Pisum sativum
Fabaceae
Turnip
Brassica rapa subsp. rapa
BrassicaceaeCan you plant peas and turnips together?
Yes. Peas and turnips grow well together. Growing them together improved the soil and nutrient uptake in a field trial. That rests on a single study, so treat it as a lead, not a rule.
Why peas and turnips work together
Better soil and nutrient uptake. In a field trial, growing them together improved the soil and nutrient uptake.
Cover crop crucifer-legume mixtures provide effective nitrate catch crop and nitrogen green manure ecosystem services (Couëdel A · 2018 · Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.)Garden charts recommend it. 4 garden chart entries recommend growing them together. Charts pass on gardening tradition; they are not tests.
Effect of pea intercropping on biological efficiencies and economics of some non-legume winter vegetables (Qasim · 2013 · Pakistani Journal of Agricultural Science)
What to plant with peas and turnips
No plant in our data is a good neighbour of both peas and turnips yet.
What to keep away from peas and turnips
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
Research
Good
avoidgood
1 paper found: 1 positive, 0 negative.
nutrients / soil
auto-classified not reviewed by a person
Yield trial
No intercropping yield trial.
Good neighbours
What happens above and below ground
Each animation illustrates a mechanism a study reported for this pair. Pick a card to focus on it.
Everything at once.
Companion plants for both peas and turnips
Plants that are good neighbours of each. Biggest harvest gain first; each cell links to the evidence for that pair.
No plant is a good neighbour of both peas and turnips in our data yet.
The evidence, with sources
- Goodnutrients / soilfield trialauto-classifiedCover crop crucifer-legume mixtures provide effective nitrate catch crop and nitrogen green manure ecosystem servicesCover crop crucifer-legume mixtures provide effective nitrate catch crop and nitrogen green manure ecosystem services (Couëdel A · 2018 · Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.)Relevance 90% · effect confidence 71%
- GoodPea helps TurnipPeas: helps TurnipEffect of pea intercropping on biological efficiencies and economics of some non-legume winter vegetables (Qasim · 2013 · Pakistani Journal of Agricultural Science)
- GoodTurnip helps PeaPeas: helped by TurnipEffect of pea intercropping on biological efficiencies and economics of some non-legume winter vegetables (Qasim · 2013 · Pakistani Journal of Agricultural Science)
- GoodTurnip helps PeaTurnips and rutabagas: helps PeasEffect of pea intercropping on biological efficiencies and economics of some non-legume winter vegetables (Qasim · 2013 · Pakistani Journal of Agricultural Science)
- GoodPea helps TurnipTurnips and rutabagas: helped by peasEffect of pea intercropping on biological efficiencies and economics of some non-legume winter vegetables (Qasim · 2013 · Pakistani Journal of Agricultural Science)
All neighbours of pea and of turnip, or every pair at once in the companion planting chart.
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