Jessica Walliser

Plant Partners (eBook, ePUB)

Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Discover the benefits of companion planting with this comprehensive guidebook.

Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for the ever-popular growing technique of companion planting, offering dozens of ways you can use scientifically tested plant partnerships to benefit your whole garden.

Dozens of well-studied partnerships in this book offer fresh strategies to:
- Break up heavy soils
- Combat weeds and disease
- Lure pests away
- Attract specific beneficial insects
- Improve pollination

2021 AHS Book Award Winner

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781635861341
• Artikelnr.: 64263015

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Jeff Gillman, PhD
Introduction
1 The Power of Plant Partnerships: How Does Modern Companion Planting Work?
2 Soil Preparation & Conditioning: From Cover Crops to Living Rototillers
3 Weed Management: Using Living Mulches and Allelopathy to Combat Weeds
4 Support & Structure: Plants That Act as Living Trellises
5 Pest Management: Luring, Tricking, Trapping, and Deterring Pest Insects
6 Disease Management: Suppressing Disease through Plant Partnerships and
Interplanting
7 Improved Biological Control: Plant Partners That Attract and Support
Pest-Eating Beneficial Insects
8 Improved Pollination: Bringing More Pollinators to the Garden through the
Perfect Plant/Pollinator Matches
Epilogue: The Companion Planting Journey
Acknowledgments
Resources
Glossary
Bibliography
Index