Bean (bush/pole)
Judía / Frijol · Haricot
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Height
- medium (40–100 cm)
- Shape
- upright
- Roots
- medium depth
- Sun
- full sun
- Season
- warm season
- Grows in
- ☀ summer beds (warm season)
- Feeds
- soil builder
Jobs in the bed
- Soil builderRoot bacteria fix nitrogen and enrich the soil for the next crop.
Rotation
Do not return Fabaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:
✓ Good neighbours
- ✓ Pea
- ✓ Carrot
- ✓ Lettuce
- ✓ Cabbage
- ✓ Cucumber
- ✓ Squash / zucchini
- ✓ Corn
- ✓ Potato
- ✓ Beetroot
- ✓ Radish
- ✓ Spinach
- ✓ Celery
- ✓ Eggplant / aubergine
- ✓ Strawberry
- ✓ Sweet potato
- ✓ Swiss chard
- ✓ Turnip
- ✓ Parsnip
- ✓ Broccoli
- ✓ Cauliflower
- ✓ Sorghum
☀❄ Grows in a different season: not at the same time in the same bed.
✗ Keep apart
None listed.
✿ Helpful flowers & herbs
- ✿ NasturtiumTrap crop — draws aphids & caterpillars off the crop; trailing ground cover; edible Plant slightly away from the main crop so pests move to it, not onto the crop