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1) Plant partners: science-based companion planting strategies for the vegetable garden

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Walliser, Jessica

Language

English

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"Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for companion planting, offering gardeners dozens of ways they can use scientifically tested plant partnerships to benefit the garden as a whole"--

2) Attracting beneficial bugs to your garden: a natural approach to pest control

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Walliser, Jessica

Language

English

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It may seem counterintuitive to want bugs in a garden, but insects are indeed valuable garden companions. Especially those species known for eating the bugs that eat plants. Assassin bugs, damsel bugs, and predatory stink bugs are all carnivores that devour the bugs that dine on a garden. Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden is a book about bugs and plants, and how to create a garden that benefits from both. In addition to information on companion...

3) Gardener's guide to compact plants: edibles & ornamentals for small-space gardening

Author

Walliser, Jessica

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

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Covering a broad array of landscape plants, including edibles, flowering and fruiting trees and shrubs, evergreens, and perennials, horticulturist Jessica Walliser takes a deep dive into the emerging category of compact plants.
Whether short, narrow, columnar, or dwarf, this new and exciting group of plants provides the same decorative function as full-sized ornamental plants, but in a fraction of the space. Plus, edible...

4) Good bug, bad bug: who's who, what they do, and how to manage them organically (all you need to know about the insects in your garden)

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Walliser, Jessica

Language

English

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This book identifies helpful and harmful insects found in the garden, and gives advice for effectively managing both types of insects organically. It is a field guide for quickly and easily identifying the most common invasive and beneficial insects in the garden; plus the best organic advice on how to attract the good guys and manage the bad guys, without reaching for the toxic chemicals. It includes strategies for dealing with the "new bugs in...