Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty
by Lisa Mason Ziegler
On This Page
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. Adding flowers to your food garden improves biodiversity, enhances pollination, and increases the numbers of beneficial pest-eating insects-with the bonus of providing beautiful bouquets of cut flowers to brighten your home and give to your family and friends.Vegetables Love Flowers explains show more the benefits of interplanting flowers and vegetables; offers detailed advice on how to add a cutting garden of vibrant annuals to your vegetable garden; gives profiles of a range of pollinators and beneficial predators; and provides plenty of general gardening guidance featuring natural methods. Alongside gorgeous garden photography, you'll learn about: ·Garden planning, seed-starting, growing, and harvesting ·How to make garden flower bouquets, with "recipes" for various arrangements ·How to attract beneficial creatures to pollinate your garden and prey on its pests ·Pesticide-free pest-control measures ·Composting heaps and binsWith the right information and some careful planning, you can help your plants thrive-and beautify your garden in the process. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Overall I really, really liked this book. I read the library's copy and will be buying it for my home gardening reference library. Only a couple of nitpicks. While I understand that this was her premise, the complete focus on cut flowers was a little much for me at times. I will be adapting her methods to something more all encompassing, but that's just b/c I have my own goals and dreams for my yard/garden in mind. If someone who wasn't familiar with a garden ecosystem and supporting beneficials through the use of flowers, then this would be a great way to get started -- I just wonder if they would feel limited by only using cut flowers. But only using cut flowers is better than no flowers so this is kinda a silly critique. She show more references the native planting areas around her gardens; I wish she would have talked more about those, what are in them, and how they are maintained (but again, not the focus of the book). Finally, more detail on her seed starting process would have been helpful.
Those are minor compared to everything this book does give. It's a great understanding of how to use the power of nature to prevent and control issues in your garden. I'd recommend. show less
Those are minor compared to everything this book does give. It's a great understanding of how to use the power of nature to prevent and control issues in your garden. I'd recommend. show less
Vegetables Love Flowers by Lisa Mason Ziegler
Companion Planting for Beauly and Bounty
March 2018
Nonfiction, gardening
Quarto Publishing
I received this digital ARC from Publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review.
This is an organized and beautifully illustrated book sharing the authors experience with growing plants and flowers together. Some of the benefits of companion planting included less work to allow the natural growing process to take over. The author does caution that this solution to pests and gardening problems will not resolve issues overnight.
She explains how companion planting of flowers and vegetables can assist with many of difficulties gardeners have when attempting to grow organically. The use of show more beneficial insects which are attracted to specific flowers become a preventative force to the insects which thrive on garden vegetables. It’s the forethought and planning which helps preventative maintenance for a healthy garden. show less
Companion Planting for Beauly and Bounty
March 2018
Nonfiction, gardening
Quarto Publishing
I received this digital ARC from Publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review.
This is an organized and beautifully illustrated book sharing the authors experience with growing plants and flowers together. Some of the benefits of companion planting included less work to allow the natural growing process to take over. The author does caution that this solution to pests and gardening problems will not resolve issues overnight.
She explains how companion planting of flowers and vegetables can assist with many of difficulties gardeners have when attempting to grow organically. The use of show more beneficial insects which are attracted to specific flowers become a preventative force to the insects which thrive on garden vegetables. It’s the forethought and planning which helps preventative maintenance for a healthy garden. show less
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
4 Works 165 Members
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 83
- Popularity
- 378,328
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (4.42)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 1
