Great Garden Companions

Author: Sally Jean Cunningham
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9780875968476
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
Designed to help readers make organic gardening easy and productive by using plants themselves instead of chemical care, a gardener offers a system that encourages pest-free growth

Great Garden Companions

Author: Sally Jean Cunningham
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9780875967813
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Designed to help readers make organic gardening easy and productive by using plants themselves in place of chemical care, a master gardener offers a system that combines certain plants, bugs, and herbs to encourage pest-free growth.

Plant Partners

Author: Jessica Walliser
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1635861330
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
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.

Vegetables Love Flowers

Author: Lisa Mason Ziegler
Publisher:
ISBN: 0760357587
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
Fight garden pests and increase your yields the natural way with this tried and true technique! Planting vegetables and flowers together is one of the oldest ways to create a healthy, bountiful garden; but there's more to the method than you might think. Vegetables Love Flowers walks you through the ins and outs of companion planting, from how it works to which plants go together and how to grow the best garden for your climate. Alongside gorgeous garden photography, you'll also learn about: Seed-starting, growing, and harvesting How to make garden flower bouquets, with "recipes" for various arrangements How to attract beneficial creatures to pollinate your garden and prey on its pests Pesticide-free pest-control measures Composting heaps and bins With the right information and some careful planning, you can help your plants thrive—and beautify your garden in the process.

Farmers' Almanac 2008

Author: Peter Geiger
Publisher: Geiger
ISBN: 9781928720096
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Farmers Almanac is an annual publication published every year since 1818. It is the only publication of its kind which generations of American families have come to trust. Its longevity speaks volumes about its content which informs, delights, and educates. Best known for its long-range weather predictions, the Farmers Almanac provides valuable information on gardening, cooking, fishing, and more.

Perennial Companions

Author: Thomas Fischer
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN: 0881929395
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
There is an abundance of inspiration in the 100 combinations featured in this book. Each grouping is an actual garden scene that combines two, three, or more perennials in colorful tableaux that span the gardening year, from earliest spring to the onset of winter. All 100 entries identify each of the main plants by both common and botanical names, specify the care and conditions they require, and indicate when the combination reaches its peak of beauty.

Roses Love Garlic

Author: Louise Riotte
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 161212187X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
From deterring insect pests with hot peppers to encouraging strawberries by bordering them with chrysanthemums, Louise Riotte shows you how to use the natural qualities of common plants to increase your garden’s productivity. Roses Love Garlic profiles hundreds of plants, features sample garden designs, and includes recipes for using your harvest to make herbal cosmetics, medicinal mixtures, and plant-based dyes. You’ll enjoy learning about the fascinating ways plants work together as you tend to a thriving and bountiful garden. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

Companion Planting

Author: M. Grande
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499619515
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Companion planting is the strategic placement of plants in close proximity so that the plants can help one another out. It allows you to maximize the use of space while taking advantage of the natural abilities of each plant. This guide to companion gardening covers the following topics: What companion planting is and how it can benefit you. How good companion plants are discovered. Organic gardening and companion planting. Companion planting strategies. Allelopathy: The chemical abilities of plants. Beneficial insects in the garden and how to draw them in. How to repel pest insects. Planning your garden using companion planting. Companion planting information on more than 70 fruits, vegetables and herbs, including good and bad neighbors. This book provides a strong basis for those looking to learn companion planting and is guaranteed to be a reference guide you turn to time and time again when looking for companion plants to grow in your garden. Buy this book now and get started growing a bigger and better garden through companion gardening.

Good Companions

Author: Josie Jeffrey
Publisher: Ivy Books
ISBN: 9781908005717
Category : Companion crops
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
The mix & match guide to companion planting Why sow seeds that arent happy sharing a bed when you can plan a harmonious garden instead? With its ingenious split-page, mix and match system, Good Companions offers an immediate guide to the friends and foes of the gardening world, ensuring you have all the tools you need to grow your most successful crop yet! How does companion planting work? Well, take just one well-known example squash, sweetcorn and beans. Together these three make a happy family: squash will shelter the beans roots, which in their turn will add beneficial nitrogen to the trios soil, while the strong-growing sweetcorn will support the beans as they grow. And there are dozens of other groups that are equally good for one another just flip the pages and match up the easy colour coding to plant up the happiest plot you can imagine.

The A - Z of Companion Planting

Author: Jayne Neville
Publisher: Good Life Press
ISBN: 9781904871828
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Some plants thrive in each others’ company. They offer protection from bugs and disease, provide shade and enrich the earth with nutrients. And, some plants do not. The A-Z of Companion Planting explains the theory and the practice. It looks at its usage historically and brings the practice up to date with today’s gardening techniques and our desire for chemical-free vegetables. The author guides you through which crops, herbs, grasses and fruits can be planted together (and equally important, which must not) to make sure that you get the very best crop with the highest yields – and naturally! Combined with a handy, easy to use diagnostic table and clear, easy to understand line drawings.