Good job!
From a YouTube channel I subscribe to, One Yard Revolution, he is big on planting different types of plants together in order to prevent bugs from having a smorgasbord in the garden. Maybe, with staggering, it would be good to also plant something totally different in order to throw things off.
Personally, In my micro-garden, I had lettuce, strawberries, carrots, peas, tomato, rhubarb and raspberries all together. It is a bit of a mess now, but the bugs do seem to be limited.
Yes there is a lot of truth to that. I always plant my eggplant and peppers together because they are supposed to compliment each other on pest protection.