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22.06.2023 - 15:05 / gardenerspath.com / Kristina HicksHamblin
31 of the Best Companion Plants for BeansBeans are an excellent garden crop. They’re easy to grow, help fix nitrogen, and can be enjoyed in multiple forms – in their pods, shelled, or dried.
So when you’re planning an organic garden, it makes sense to find the best companions for these legumes.
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But what exactly should you look for in a companion plant?
It might be easy to refer to a ready-made chart listing good and poor companions for a given crop, but if those pairings just keep getting handed down as “traditional” without being tested or held up to logical scrutiny, what good are they?
A better approach is to understand the scientifically backed benefits of companion planting, and use science and a little logical scrutiny to judge different plant pairings.
The question we should ask when considering such pairings is, exactly what benefit is one plant providing for another, if any?
There can be multiple answers to that question.
Good companions might help with the management of weeds, pests, or diseases. They might also attract beneficial insects to help with pollination. Some offer support or shade. And some can offer benefits by conditioning the soil.
An additional advantage of companion planting is more efficient use of land, since different sorts of crops often use different soil resources in varying amounts. This means less total space is usually needed for mixed plantings than for two equivalent plantings grown in monocultures.
We’re going to look at 31 plants that form good partnerships with beans and examine exactly what types of benefits each of these partnerships brings.
We’ll examine these pairing and, in
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