Can you plant beans and rosemary together?

Charts say yes. Nobody has tested beans with rosemary, as far as we could find.

Why we can't give a firm answer

Garden charts recommend it. 1 garden chart entry recommends growing them together. Charts pass on gardening tradition; they are not tests.
Companion Plants (Alabama Cooperative Extension System)
and 1 more source

What to plant with beans and rosemary

Good neighbours of both, best tested first.

SageRecommended by garden charts for both, not tested yet
CarrotRecommended by garden charts for both, not tested yet

How each one was tested, with the evidence

What to keep away from beans and rosemary

KohlrabiWith beans: Garden charts advise against it, not tested
ChivesWith beans: Garden charts advise against it, not tested
TomatoWith rosemary: 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

Good

avoidgood

1 chart entry: 1 recommend, 0 advise against.

All entries cite a source.

Research

No papers found on this pair.

Yield trial

No intercropping yield trial.

Untested folklore

Companion plants for both beans and rosemary

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

Recommended by garden charts for both, not tested yet

Sage Carrot

The evidence, with sources

TraditionGood1 entry

GoodRosemary helps Bean
Rosemary: helps beans
Companion Plants (Alabama Cooperative Extension System)
Production guide for organic snap beans for processing (2013 · NYS IPM Publication)

Plan a bed with beans and rosemary

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

Have you grown beans and rosemary together?

Tell other gardeners what happened: spacing, pests, harvest, or ask a question. Reader notes are not checked by us and do not change the verdicts on this page.