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Originally published in 1975, this comprehensive and user-friendly guide to companion planting has since become a classic... and with good reason. In Carrots Love Tomatoes, lifelong gardener and prolific author Louise Riotte reveals how plant relationships — be they mutually beneficial, one-sided, or downright dysfunctional — can have a tremendous impact on your garden's outcome. A valuable reference for anyone looking to maximize their harvest by organic means. I usually pull this off the shelf in winter when I'm plotting next year's veggie garden, and then revisit it during the spring when I realize I've amassed more starts than I'd planned for (read: Portland Nursery impulse buys) and need to revise my map. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:First published in 1975, this much-loved classic has taught generations of gardeners how to use plants to protect and support each other to produce bigger and better harvests. Here is a reader's complete reference to the magic and mystery of companion planting — which plants nourish the soil, which best keep away bugs and pests, and which plant pairs just don't get along. With easy-to-access information in alphabetical sections, this is a reference that readers will turn to again and again as they learn to use companion planting to grow the best, most trouble-free garden they've ever imagined. The powerful secrets of companion planting make it easy, and Riotte's easy-going style makes it fun. A Selection of the Rodale Book Club. Synopsis:If you want to know whether it is kosher to plant onions between cabbage plants, this is the place to look. — Oklahoma Today First published in 1975, this classic companion planting guide has taught a generation of gardeners how to use plants' natural partnerships to produce bigger and better harvests. Over 500,000 in Print! More Praise for Carrots Love Tomatoes: "...informative, illustrated, and pracitcal guide." — Baltimore Evening Sun "...contains hundreds of interesting facts which are entertaining and at the same time educational." — Cleveland Press
Synopsis:Sprinkled with her trademark quotations, anecdotes and detailed line drawings, Louise Riotte lists hundreds of plants and their ideal (and not so ideal) companions. Readers can easily locate the plants they intend to grow and design a garden for maximum compatibility and yield. Illustrations throughout. 224 pp. About the AuthorBeloved Storey author and life-long gardener Louise Riotte passed away in 1998 at the age of 89. She wrote 12 books on gardening, companion planting, and garden lore, among them the ever-popular Carrots Love Tomatoes, which has sold approximately 515,000 copies. Her father taught her to believe in and practice astrology, while her mother was a practicing herbalist. Together they inevitably influenced her life and her books, Roses Love Garlic, Astrological Gardening, Sleeping with a Sunflower, Catfish Ponds & Lily Pads, and her most recent book, Raising Animals by the Moon. Her own line drawings are included in all her books. Before authoring books, Riotte was a ghost writer for Simon & Schuster and for Jerry Baker's radio gardening show, and she wrote a number of articles for Organic Gardening as well. Riotte took pride in her garden near her home in Ardmore, Oklahoma, which her son Eugene helped care for in her later years. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 1 comment:
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