Can you plant corn and dill together?

Charts say yes. Nobody has tested corn with dill, as far as we could find.

Why we can't give a firm answer

Garden charts recommend it. 2 garden chart entries recommend growing them together. Charts pass on gardening tradition; they are not tests.
Companion Plants (Alabama Cooperative Extension System)

What to plant with corn and dill

Good neighbours of both, best tested first.

PepperWith corn: 44% more harvestWith dill: Draws in pest-eating insects
BeanWith corn: 43% more harvestWith dill: Fewer pests
CilantroWith corn: 42% more harvestWith dill: Draws in pest-eating insects
CucumberWith corn: Fewer pestsWith dill: Recommended by garden charts, not tested

How each one was tested, with the evidence

What to keep away from corn and dill

CeleryWith corn: Garden charts advise against it, not tested
CarrotWith dill: 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.

All entries cite a source.

Research

No papers found on this pair.

Yield trial

No intercropping yield trial.

Untested folklore

Companion plants for both corn and dill

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

Plant	With corn	With dill
Pepper	Lures pests away, better soil and nutrient uptake and less disease44% more harvest from the same spaceField trial, 5 studies. Charts: not listed.Evidence for corn and peppers	Draws in pest-eating insectsField trial, 1 study. Charts: not listed.Evidence for dill and peppers
Bean	Draws in pest-eating insects, fewer pests and better soil and nutrient uptake43% more harvest from the same spaceField trial, 22 studies. Charts: recommend.Evidence for corn and beans	Fewer pests, better soil and nutrient uptake and bigger combined harvestField trial, 5 studies. Charts: not listed.Evidence for dill and beans
Cilantro	42% more harvest from the same spaceField trial, 1 study. Charts: not listed.Evidence for corn and cilantro	Draws in pest-eating insectsSame family (Apiaceae): shares pests and diseasesField trial, 1 study. Charts: not listed.Evidence for dill and cilantro
Cucumber	Fewer pestsField trial, 1 study. Charts: not listed.Evidence for corn and cucumbers	No trial foundNot tested. Charts: recommend.Evidence for dill and cucumbers

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

TraditionGood2 entries

GoodDill helps Sweet corn
Corn / Maize: helped by dill
Companion Plants (Alabama Cooperative Extension System)
GoodDill helps Sweet corn
Dill: helps corn
Companion Plants (Alabama Cooperative Extension System)

Plan a bed with corn and dill

All neighbours of sweet corn and of dill, or every pair at once in the companion planting chart.

Have you grown corn and dill together?

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