Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty

Description

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, but there's more to the method than you might think. Vegetables Love Flowers will walk you through the ins and outs of companion planting, from how it works to which plants go together and how to grow the best garden for your climate. With the right information and some careful planning, you can help your plants thrive - and beautify your garden in the process.

Lisa Ziegler is an author, accomplished speaker, and the owner of the Gardener's Workshop, a thriving small market farm. She began her career selling cut flowers to local florists and Colonial Williamsburg, a business that soon grew to include florists, supermarkets, farmer's markets, a garden-share program, and a subscription service and later expanded into selling the tools, supplies, and seeds that she used in her own garden. At the same time, Lisa has steadily built a speaking career leading presentations and workshops for garden clubs, master gardeners, commercial growers, and other groups centring on her simplified organic gardening methods.

"Vegetables Love Flowers 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 * "Whether you are a gardener or just enjoy reading about the gardening adventures of others, this book is for you." * Gardening Products Review *