Can you plant carrots and sage together?

Charts say yes. Nobody has tested carrots with sage, as far as we could find. None of the chart entries we found cites a source.

Why we can't give a firm answer

Garden charts recommend it. 2 garden chart entries recommend growing them together. None of them cites a source. Charts pass on gardening tradition; they are not tests.
List of companion plants (uncited entry) (Wikipedia)

What to plant with carrots and sage

Good neighbours of both, best tested first.

CabbageWith carrots: 19% more harvestWith sage: Recommended by garden charts
RosemaryRecommended by garden charts for both, not tested yet
BeanRecommended by garden charts for both, not tested yet

How each one was tested, with the evidence

What to keep away from carrots and sage

PeaWith carrots: Smaller combined harvest
ParsnipWith carrots: Garden charts advise against it, not tested
DillWith carrots: Garden charts advise against it, not tested
PotatoWith carrots: Garden charts advise against it, not tested
RadishWith carrots: 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

2 chart entries: 2 recommend, 0 advise against.

0 cited, 2 uncited.

Research

No papers found on this pair.

Yield trial

No intercropping yield trial.

Untested folklore

Companion plants for both carrots and sage

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

Plant	With carrots	With sage
Cabbage	19% more harvest from the same spaceField trial, 1 study. Charts: not listed.Evidence for carrots and cabbage	No effect on harvestField trial, 1 study. Charts: recommend.Evidence for sage and cabbage

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).

Recommended by garden charts for both, not tested yet

Rosemary Bean

The evidence, with sources

TraditionGood2 entries

GoodSage helps Carrot
Carrots: helped by sage
List of companion plants (uncited entry) (Wikipedia)
GoodSage helps Carrot
Sage: helps carrots
List of companion plants (uncited entry) (Wikipedia)

Plan a bed with carrots and sage

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

Have you grown carrots and sage together?

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