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Summary:

"Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for companion planting, offering gardeners dozens of ways they can use scientifically tested plant partnerships to benefit the garden as a whole"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• The Power of Plant Partnerships: How Does Modern Companion Planting Work?
• Soil Preparation & Conditioning: From Cover Crops to Living Rototillers
• Weed Management: Using Living Mulches and Allelopathy to Combat Weeds
• Support & Structure: Plants That Act as Living Trellises
• Pest Management: Luring, Trapping, Tricking, and Deterring Pest Insects
• Disease Management: Suppressing Disease Through Plant Partnerships and Interplanting
• Biological Control: Plant Partners That Attract and Support Pest-Eating Beneficial Insects
• Pollination: Bringing More Pollinators to the Garden through the Perfect Plant/Pollinator Matches.

Author/Creator:

Walliser, Jessica , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Plant partners: science-based companion planting strategies to minimize disease, reduce pests, improve soil fertility, and support pollination in the vegetable garden [by Walliser, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Plant partners [by Walliser, J.] (North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, 2020 — ISBN 9781635861334; LCCN 2020029583)

Subjects:

Companion planting

Vegetable gardening

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

SB453.6 .W355 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781635861341 (ebook)
1635861349
9781635861334 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020029584

OCLC Numbers:

1176326115