Vegetables love flowers : companion planting for beauty and bounty / Lisa Mason Ziegler.

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Centuries ago before chemical fertilizers and engineered inputs, the most productive vegetable gardens shared one common attribute: the vegetables were paired up. Not with other vegetables, but with beds of beautiful flowers. Even then, gardeners knew that vegetables love flowers. Or to be more prec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ziegler, Lisa Mason (Author)
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : Cool Springs Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Companion planting.
Vegetables.
Flowers.
Gardening.
GARDENING > Vegetables.
GARDENING > Flowers > General.
Nonfiction.
Genre:
Nonfiction.
Physical Description:176 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Why do vegetables love flowers?
  • How to interplant your vegetable patch
  • The cutting garden
  • Warm-season tender annuals
  • Cool-season hardy annuals
  • Pollinators
  • Beneficial predators
  • Tending the healthy garden
  • The yard around the garden
  • Appendix: Succession planting garden-bed examples.