Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden - Softcover

Walliser, Jessica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1635861330 ISBN 13: 9781635861334

Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Reflecting the latest research on how plants influence and communicate with each other, Jessica Walliser offers a research-based guide to companion planting―a gardening method that uses strategic plant partnerships to improve crop yields and outsmart pests.

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Jessica Walliser is a horticulturalist and the author of several gardening books, including Plant Partners and Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden. In addition to cohosting The Organic Gardeners, an award-winning radio program in Pennsylvania, she is the co-owner of the popular gardening website SavvyGardening.com and a regular contributor to Fine Gardening, Urban Farm, and Hobby Farms, and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Walliser is the recipient of an American Horticultural Society Book Award. 

Jeff Gillman, PhD is director of the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens and best-selling author of The Truth about Garden Remedies and Decoding Gardening Advice.

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Companion planting gets a science-based reboot!

Intentionally growing certain plants together to benefit the whole garden now has science to explain its success. Jessica Walliser’s new vision of an old tradition is built around a modern understanding of the marvelous web of connections happening in the garden and how to use them to create real and measurable results.

Discover dozens of well-studied partnerships that offer fresh strategies to:
- Break up heavy soils
- Combat weeds and disease
- Lure pests away
- Attract specific beneficial insects
- Improve pollination

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1635861330
• ISBN 13: 9781635861334
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: WordUnited GmbH; distribution@wordunited.com; ; Theodorstrasse 105; DUSSELDORF; 40472; Deutschland