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

Description

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
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Jessica Walliser, Jeff Gillman (Foreword by)
Published: 12/22/2020
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 9781635861334
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 0.60″ H x 8.90″ L x 8.00″ W

About the Author

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.