by Jessica Walliser (Author), Jeff Gillman (Foreword by)
Discover the benefits of companion planting with this comprehensive guidebook.
Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for the ever-popular growing technique of companion planting, offering dozens of ways you can use scientifically tested plant partnerships to benefit your whole garden.
Dozens of well-studied partnerships in this book offer fresh strategies to:
- Break up heavy soils
- Combat weeds and disease
- Lure pests away
- Attract specific beneficial insects
- Improve pollination
2021 AHS Book Award Winner
Back Jacket
Companion planting gets a science-based reboot!
Intentionally growing certain plants together to benefit the whole garden now has science to explain its success. Jessica Walliser's new vision of an old tradition is built around a modern understanding of the marvelous web of connections happening in the garden and how to use them to create real and measurable results.
Discover dozens of well-studied partnerships that offer fresh strategies to:
- Break up heavy soils
- Combat weeds and disease
- Lure pests away
- Attract specific beneficial insects
- Improve pollination
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.
Number of Pages: 216
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 8 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: December 22, 2020
