I put beans in with a chunk of my hazelnut plantings as well as with my kiwi and grapes.
All seem to be taking fairly well but there was a huge, unexpected bonus.
It seems that the beans are a bit more attractive to the Japanese beetles we have around here than my new
trees and shrubs!
So far, they are not showing up in huge numbers and attack the beans first so I have mostly been able to keep up on killing them by hand.
Having the leaf stripping damage happen to cheap annuals like the beans is so much better than adding stress to my struggling, valuable nuts. So far, the only thing they find tastier than the beans are the grapes, but at least those are vigorous
enough for it not to be too much of a problem.
I have more trees to add next year and I will make sure everyone gets a bean friend or two!