Carrots love tomatoes Secrets of companion planting for successful gardening

Louise Riotte

Book - 1998

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Published
Pownal, Vt. : Storey Communications 1998.
Language
English
Main Author
Louise Riotte (-)
Edition
2nd ed
Item Description
"A Storey Publishing book."
Rev. ed. of: Secrets of companion planting, c1975.
Physical Description
219 p. : ill
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN
9781580170277
  • Introduction
  • Vegetables Herbs Wild Plants Grasses, Grains, and Field Crops
  • First Steps for Home Fruit Growing Nuts Ornamental Trees and Shrubs Garden
  • Techniques Soil Improvement Pest Control Poisonous Plants Garden Plans Sources
  • Suggested Reading
  • IndeX
Review by Library Journal Review

Companion planting is when you put two or more plants together and, like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, they help each other out. A la Tom Fischer, this classic book teaches dudes that "watermelons are good to interplant with tomatoes," lettuce grows well with strawberries, and "cucumbers are offensive to raccoons, so they are a good plant with corn" (16). But Riotte also shares which plants don't make amicable companions, ending up like Courtney Love and Madonna locked in a room together. Sections on pest control are also worthy, with tips like using deploying praying mantises garden guardians, and interplanting onions among the cabbages and lettuce to repel rabbits.-Douglas Lord, Connecticut State Lib., Middletown (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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