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What to plant with beans

Sources list Cucumbers, Potatoes and Peas as good companions for beans. Keep beans apart from Onions and Garlic. None of these pairings has been tested in a study we found.

Pairings
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Good neighbors first, then plants to keep apart. Each one says how strong the evidence is.

Helps

  • Cucumbers Traditional pairing1

    Bush beans in the chart.

  • Potatoes Traditional pairing1

  • Peas Traditional pairing1

Keep apart

  • Onions Traditional pairing1

  • Garlic Traditional pairing1

Traditional pairings come from a UC Master Gardener chart that traces to the UC Davis Edible Landscaping Handbook and ATTRA. The chart gives no reasons, and we found no trial of these pairs; treat them as garden lore.

Sources

  1. University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCCE Master Gardener Program), Companion Planting Chart: Companion planting in the vegetable garden, File dated 2023-09 in URL path; no date printed. Retrieved 2026-11-02.