Titel:
Plant partners : science-based companion planting strategies for the vegetable garden
Persönlicher Verfasser:
PUBDATE:
2020
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2020]
Physische Beschreibung:
205 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781635861334
Abstract:
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.
Inhalte:
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.
LANGUAGE:
Englisch
