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9781635861334

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9781635861334

  • ISBN10:

    1635861330

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2020-12-22
  • Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
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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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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

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