Yes, do it. Unless your garden is a huge one, rotating crops just isn't necessary. Add compost, till, replant.

I usually follow peas with melons, and get great results! I set out melon seedlings just about when the peas are starting to bear. By the time the pea vines start to die off, the melons take over the trellis.

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Maybe your method of setting out melon seedlings when the peas are starting to bear could be translated into planting pole beans next to the pea rows when the peas are starting to bear.

In the past if I planted Spring peas, I'd wait until after their May or June harvest to plant pole beans in the same place with the trellis, a little late for this area. But if I could plant them two or three weeks earlier by overlapping them this way, that would solve the timing problem! I'm definitely going to try it!

In this 'meteorologically-challenged' climate where the soil doesn't warm until July, I grow peas in May-June on a 32 foot trellis, and as soon as they're picked, I pull out the hay and plant pole beans with no extra soil conditioning. You can also do a crop of chard or beets.

Give it a shot Anney,
It works well for me, and I save a month that I would have waited for the peas to finish before I planted the melons. That month is the difference between me actually getting melons, and n ot just foliage! Good luck,

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Alas! David! here in our South ,it is Summer!Beets and chards are stressed , and I am afraid it might be too late for the pole beans.. Should not I wait until time to plant a Fall garden? But I sure am glad to know that you all seem to think it is fine to put beans after peas .
Thanks for your answer, you all!

micrideblois

It isn't too late to plant pole beans where I am -- it's only just past mid-May and that's the time to plant warm-weather beans. In fact, I'll put out my pole limas and pole italian beans as well as my (non-pole) Southern peas this week if I can get the bindweed down to non-jungle status.

The pole limas have the longest anticipated DTM, 90 days, a harvest date sometime in late August, but that's okay with me since I'll have plenty of other beans to harvest and eat and freeze before the limas are ready.

Anney, I am more south than you: Almost on the Gulf(Mobile, AL) The bush beans are just finished But you encourage me to do it! And I will!
thanks, Anney

i get excited about planting any legumes such as beans ans peas they draw nitrogen from the air(lightening and return it to the sioil and the withering plants till in for soils builder for next crop Till er in !!!

beans can follow peas, but rotating crop is important also.
Colver is a good green crop too & it helps the bees.