Companion Plants For Pole Beans

Some vegetables, herbs and flowers make an excellent companion plant to beans, providing benefits like weed control, shade, support and nutrition while simultaneously deterring pests and drawing pollinators to the area.

Beans make ideal companion plants for tomatoes, which also thrive as climbing vines with trellis systems. Beans fix nitrogen into the soil for healthy tomato growth.

Rhubarb

Modern backyard gardening often divides plants into categories, like tomatoes and beans, but this doesn’t need to be the case. Plant-plant relationships can actually improve both its health and yield.

Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum) is an annual vegetable with long, reddish-to-greenish stalks that can be eaten raw or cooked and toxic leaves which must be removed before harvest. Rhubarb prefers cooler climates, and should typically be harvested in early spring.

Pairing rhubarb and beans together makes for a delightful garden partnership. Beans provide vital nitrogen enrichment that rhubarb needs, while their tall stalks act as natural trellises for it. Furthermore, their flavors complement one another well while repelling black fly aphids that could harm beans. Additional beneficial companions for rhubarb include garlic which repels them as well as plants from the cabbage family like broccoli and cauliflower to provide improved soil health and nutrition.

Rosemary

Rosemary thrives when planted among other sun-loving and well-draining soil plants such as vegetables, herbs and flowering plants such as calendula, nasturtium, sage basil or borage; providing food sources for pollinators as they bloom.

Rosemary works well to deter pests in brassica (cabbage family plants). The strong scent of rosemary masks the scent of brassica leaves, confusing cabbage moths, broccoli worms and larvae into mistaking its scent as part of a different scent altogether – while also repelling bean beetles, carrot flies and mosquitoes from attacking these delicate flowers.

Leafy greens such as lettuce, kale, Swiss chard and spinach pair nicely with beans. These plants thrive under the dappled shade that corn casts while not competing for nutrients with beans. Plus, their rapid growth helps shade bean plants as temperatures heat up; using a trellis to train vines out of harm’s way may also be necessary; marigolds are excellent at deterring pests like aphids while chives repelling slugs are beneficial additions that work alongside lettuce plants – perfect companion plants!

Catnip

Catnip can protect bean plants from being damaged by flea beetles and other pests such as aphids and carrot flies, while its dense foliage also suppresses weeds while conserving soil moisture. Plus, this sage-like plant is easy to cultivate from seeds or transplanted cuttings!

Radishes (Raphanus sativus) make excellent companion plants for bush varieties of beans. Both fast-growing veggies occupy similar spaces without competing for resources or water; thus helping maximize garden space. Radishes also attract hoverflies which feed on aphids, while their roots release nitrogen into the soil.

Beans are nitrogen-fixing plants, working in harmony with bacteria in the soil to convert atmospheric nitrogen into an absorbable form for other plants, like carrots. This process has many other advantages as well: for instance, deterring cucumber beetles and Colorado potato bugs from attacking eggplants while simultaneously helping prevent beetles from developing resistance to pesticides.

Celery

Celery may not be associated with beans specifically, but its aromatic leaves can protect other vegetables in your vegetable garden from being infiltrated by white cabbage moth larvae – such as broccoli, kale and cauliflower crops – from invasion by white cabbage moth larvae. Furthermore, its nitrogen-rich leaves work great alongside peas, carrots, corn and cucumbers to enrich soil quality.

Plant it among your bush varieties of beans and peppers (depending on their variety) to protect them from Colorado potato beetles, cabbage worms, Mexican bean beetles and hoverflies that eat aphids; making it an excellent addition to a veggie garden!

Pole beans and beets can coexist harmoniously, provided you plant them alternating rows between the two plants. Pole beans tend to sprawl across beet greens and shade their growth too much; to prevent this, consider placing your garden beds around its edge or planting alternate rows with both.

Chamomile

Chamomile can help to repel flea beetles and other insects that damage beans. Plus, its rich nutrients such as potassium, sulfur and calcium enrich soil quality – making chamomile an excellent addition to a garden or used as an edible crop in containers.

Chamomile is an annual perennial that returns each year to help manage weeds that compete for beans’ nutrients, while its fragrant flowers may help deter cucumber beetles and root maggots.

Cucumbers can co-exist peacefully in the garden with beans, although vineing cucumber varieties and pole bean varieties that need support may interfere with one another’s development. Bush varieties of cucumber can still be grown near bean plants as pollinators help deter aphids which feed on both species of cucumber. Carrots grown alongside beans help the latter by drawing predatory insects that consume any pests that threaten bean plants – as well as shading soil from direct sunlight so fewer weeds germinate!

Corn

Beans are legumes that enrich the soil with nitrogen, making them excellent companions for corn, squash and other veggies that rely on ample levels of this nutrient to thrive. Cucumber, eggplant and radish also benefit from being planted near beans since these plants share similar growing conditions such as ample sunlight. Beans also help lower humidity in your garden space which reduces risk for fungal infections in tomato plants.

Both bush and pole beans combine well with corn stalks as trellises when the beans start to vine; this maximizes space in your garden by eliminating the need for separate bean trellis trellises.

Chamomile works well with both bush and pole beans, repelling Mexican bean beetles while helping absorb essential nutrients from the soil. Other herbs and vegetables that pair well with beans include carrots – heavy feeders of nitrogen who also shade out competing weeds for moisture and nutrients.