Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty - Paperback
by Lisa Mason Ziegler (Author)
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 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:Lisa Mason Ziegler is an accomplished speaker and the owner of the Gardener's Workshop (@gardenersworkshopfarm), a thriving small cut-flower 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 uses 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 centered on her simplified organic gardening methods. She is the author of Cool Flowers, Vegetables Love Flowers, The Cut Flower Handbook, and Growing a Beautiful Life.
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