🫘 Bean companion plants
Beans fix nitrogen from the air into the soil, making them generous neighbours for hungry crops.
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate; water at the base once flowering starts
- Spacing
- 10–15 cm (4–6 in) for bush beans
- Harvest
- 50–65 days from seed
Good companions for bean
- 🌽 Corn
Part of the Three Sisters: corn supports climbing beans, beans feed the corn.
- 🥒 Zucchini
The third Three Sisters crop; squash leaves shade the soil and block weeds.
- 🥒 Cucumber
Benefits from the nitrogen beans leave in the soil.
- 🥔 Potato
Beans may help deter Colorado potato beetle.
- 🥕 Carrot
Carrots loosen the soil and do not compete with bean roots.
- 🍓 Strawberry
Bush beans add nitrogen for strawberry plants.