Bean

Phaseolus vulgaris

Fabaceae

Dill

Anethum graveolens

Apiaceae

Can you plant beans and dill together?

Yes. Beans and dill grow well together. Dill kept pests off beans in a field trial, and beans improved the soil or nutrient uptake of dill in a field trial.

Why beans and dill work together

Fewer pests. In a field trial, dill kept pests off beans.
Additive intercropping system or acaricides: which one is more efficient to prevent population buildup of two-spotted spider mite? (Rahimi V · 2024 · Environmental entomology)
Better soil and nutrient uptake. In a field trial, beans improved the soil or nutrient uptake of dill.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi induced changes in rhizosphere, essential oil and mineral nutrients uptake in dill/common bean intercropping system (Weisany W · 2016 · Annals of applied biology.)
Bigger combined harvest. In a field trial, dill yielded more next to beans.
Changes in the essential oil yield and composition of dill (Anethum graveolens L.) as response to arbuscular mycorrhiza colonization and cropping system (Weisany W · 2015 · Industrial Crops & Products.)
Better soil and nutrient uptake. In a field trial, growing them together improved the soil and nutrient uptake.
Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve competitive ability of dill+common bean intercrops against weeds? (Weisany W · 2016 · European Journal of Agronomy.)
Bigger combined harvest. In a field trial, growing them together gave a bigger combined harvest.
Funneliformis mosseae alters seed essential oil content and composition of dill in intercropping with common bean (Weisany W · 2016 · Industrial Crops & Products.)

What to plant with beans and dill

Good neighbours of both, best tested first.

LettuceWith beans: 48% more harvestWith dill: Recommended by garden charts, not tested
Sweet cornWith beans: 43% more harvestWith dill: Recommended by garden charts, not tested
CucumberWith beans: 14% more harvestWith dill: Recommended by garden charts, not tested
CilantroWith beans: Recommended by garden chartsWith dill: Draws in pest-eating insects

How each one was tested, with the evidence

What to keep away from beans and dill

KohlrabiWith beans: Garden charts advise against it, not tested
ChivesWith beans: Garden charts advise against it, not tested
CarrotWith dill: Garden charts advise against it, not tested

The evidence in detail

For readers who want to dig in: every chart entry, study and yield trial behind the answer above, with the numbers.

Tradition, research and yield trials

Tradition

No chart mentions this pair.

Research

Good

avoidgood

5 papers found: 5 positive, 0 negative.

nutrients / soil x2yield / land use x2pest suppression

auto-classified not reviewed by a person

Yield trial

No intercropping yield trial.

Good neighbours

What happens above and below ground

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Everything at once.

What is going on (3)

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Dill BeanDill helps keep pests off Bean: its scent and plant chemistry confuse or repel the insects that would attack it.

Researchfield trial x1

Additive intercropping system or acaricides: which one is more efficient to prevent population buildup of two-spotted spider mite? (Rahimi V · 2024 · Environmental entomology)

Bean Dill HelpsBean, a legume, fixes nitrogen from the air in root nodules and shares some with Dill; fungal threads in the soil link their roots.

Dill Bean HelpsDill changes the soil for Bean, sharing nutrients or feeding the fungal threads that link their roots.

Researchfield trial x2

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi induced changes in rhizosphere, essential oil and mineral nutrients uptake in dill/common bean intercropping system (Weisany W · 2016 · Annals of applied biology.)

Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve competitive ability of dill+common bean intercrops against weeds? (Weisany W · 2016 · European Journal of Agronomy.)

Bean DillGrown together, Bean and Dill gave more food from the same ground than apart.

Researchfield trial x2

Changes in the essential oil yield and composition of dill (Anethum graveolens L.) as response to arbuscular mycorrhiza colonization and cropping system (Weisany W · 2015 · Industrial Crops & Products.)

Funneliformis mosseae alters seed essential oil content and composition of dill in intercropping with common bean (Weisany W · 2016 · Industrial Crops & Products.)

Companion plants for both beans and dill

Plants that are good neighbours of each. Biggest harvest gain first; each cell links to the evidence for that pair.

Plant	With beans	With dill
Lettuce	48% more harvest from the same spaceField trial, 2 studies. Charts: recommend.Evidence for beans and lettuce	No trial foundNot tested. Charts: recommend.Evidence for dill and lettuce
Sweet corn	Draws in pest-eating insects, fewer pests and better soil and nutrient uptake43% more harvest from the same spaceField trial, 22 studies. Charts: recommend.Evidence for beans and corn	No trial foundNot tested. Charts: recommend.Evidence for dill and corn
Cucumber	14% more harvest from the same spaceField trial, 1 study. Charts: recommend.Evidence for beans and cucumbers	No trial foundNot tested. Charts: recommend.Evidence for dill and cucumbers
Cilantro	No effect on pest-eating insectsField trial, 1 study. Charts: recommend.Evidence for beans and cilantro	Draws in pest-eating insectsSame family (Apiaceae): shares pests and diseasesField trial, 1 study. Charts: not listed.Evidence for dill and cilantro

Harvest from the same space compares a bed with both crops against the same area split into single-crop beds, counting the harvest of both crops (the land equivalent ratio in yield trials).

The evidence, with sources

ResearchGood5 entries

Goodpest suppressionfield trialauto-classified

Dill helps Bean
Additive intercropping system or acaricides: which one is more efficient to prevent population buildup of two-spotted spider mite?
Additive intercropping system or acaricides: which one is more efficient to prevent population buildup of two-spotted spider mite? (Rahimi V · 2024 · Environmental entomology)

Relevance 89% · effect confidence 50%
Goodnutrients / soilfield trialauto-classified

Bean helps Dill
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi induced changes in rhizosphere, essential oil and mineral nutrients uptake in dill/common bean intercropping system
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi induced changes in rhizosphere, essential oil and mineral nutrients uptake in dill/common bean intercropping system (Weisany W · 2016 · Annals of applied biology.)

Relevance 97% · effect confidence 76%
Goodyield / land usefield trialauto-classified

Bean helps Dill
Changes in the essential oil yield and composition of dill (Anethum graveolens L.) as response to arbuscular mycorrhiza colonization and cropping system
Changes in the essential oil yield and composition of dill (Anethum graveolens L.) as response to arbuscular mycorrhiza colonization and cropping system (Weisany W · 2015 · Industrial Crops & Products.)

Relevance 94% · effect confidence 49%

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Goodnutrients / soilfield trialauto-classified

Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve competitive ability of dill+common bean intercrops against weeds?
Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve competitive ability of dill+common bean intercrops against weeds? (Weisany W · 2016 · European Journal of Agronomy.)

Relevance 97% · effect confidence 88%
Goodyield / land usefield trialauto-classified

Funneliformis mosseae alters seed essential oil content and composition of dill in intercropping with common bean
Funneliformis mosseae alters seed essential oil content and composition of dill in intercropping with common bean (Weisany W · 2016 · Industrial Crops & Products.)

Relevance 96% · effect confidence 89%

Plan a bed with beans and dill

All neighbours of bean and of dill, or every pair at once in the companion planting chart.

Have you grown beans and dill together?

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