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

Walliser, Jessica

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1635861330 ISBN 13 : 9781635861334

Editeur : Storey, 2020

Synopsis

2021 AHS Book Award Winner Companion planting has a long history of use by gardeners, but the explanation of why it works has been filled with folklore and conjecture. Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for this ever-popular growing technique, offering dozens of ways you can use scientifically tested plant partnerships to benefit your whole garden. Through an enhanced understanding of how plants interact with and influence each other, this guide suggests specific plant combinations that improve soil health and weed control, decrease pest damage, and increase biodiversity, resulting in real and measurable impacts in the garden.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Storey
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1635861330
• ISBN 13: 9781635861334
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: WordUnited GmbH; distribution@wordunited.com; ; Theodorstrasse 105; DUSSELDORF; 40472; Allemagne