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Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty
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“Does a marvelous job of taking you down the garden path of the ins and outs of companion planting.” —Julie Bawden-Davis, Community Table @ Parade.com
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. Adding flowers to your food garden improves biodiversity, enhances pollination, and increases the numbers of beneficial pest-eating insects—with the bonus of providing beautiful bouquets of cut flowers to brighten your home and give to your family and friends.
Vegetables Love Flowers explains the benefits of interplanting flowers and vegetables; offers detailed advice on how to add a cutting garden of vibrant annuals to your vegetable garden; gives profiles of a range of pollinators and beneficial predators; and provides plenty of general gardening guidance featuring natural methods. Alongside gorgeous garden photography, you’ll learn about:
·Garden planning, 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.
“Whether you are a gardener or just enjoy reading about the gardening adventures of others, this book is for you.”?Gardening Products Review
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. Adding flowers to your food garden improves biodiversity, enhances pollination, and increases the numbers of beneficial pest-eating insects—with the bonus of providing beautiful bouquets of cut flowers to brighten your home and give to your family and friends.
Vegetables Love Flowers explains the benefits of interplanting flowers and vegetables; offers detailed advice on how to add a cutting garden of vibrant annuals to your vegetable garden; gives profiles of a range of pollinators and beneficial predators; and provides plenty of general gardening guidance featuring natural methods. Alongside gorgeous garden photography, you’ll learn about:
·Garden planning, 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.
“Whether you are a gardener or just enjoy reading about the gardening adventures of others, this book is for you.”?Gardening Products Review
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vegetables Love Flowers by Lisa Mason Ziegler
Companion Planting for Beauly and Bounty
March 2018
Nonfiction, gardening
Quarto Publishing
I received this digital ARC from Publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review.
This is an organized and beautifully illustrated book sharing the authors experience with growing plants and flowers together. Some of the benefits of companion planting included less work to allow the natural growing process to take over. The author does caution that this solution to pests and gardening problems will not resolve issues overnight.
She explains how companion planting of flowers and vegetables can assist with many of difficulties gardeners have when attempting to grow organically. The use of beneficial insects which are attracted to specific flowers become a preventative force to the insects which thrive on garden vegetables. It’s the forethought and planning which helps preventative maintenance for a healthy garden.
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