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Jessica Walliser is a horticulturist and the author of Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden and Good Bug Bad Bug. An award-winning radio host and garden columnist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she is also the cofounder of SavvyGardening.com.

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Conocimiento común

Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugares de residencia
Pennsylvania, USA
Educación
Pennsylvania State University
Ocupaciones
editor
newspaper columnist

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As an organic gardener of some 10 years I was delighted to received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I have been chemical and pesticide free in my current garden with a small veg plot for the last 4 years and over that time I have seen an explosion in the numbers of wildlife returning to my little suburban patch. In the second year, I had my organic patience tested as I watched the stems on some of my beautiful literally turn black with black fly. I sat on my hands to resist buying a pesticide spray.... and little did I know I was about be rewarded by a little wonder of nature. Literally overnight the blackfly were gone and in their place, hundreds of tiny ladybird larvae. I was astounded at the incredible display that nature had just shown me. With that in mind I have been companion planting throughout my garden and seen some really positive results.

Now it’s time to spread the organic love a little further as I begin my next big project creating an organic community garden. This book will come in extremely useful this winter as I plan the planting schedule and space and I intend to work through all the suggestions, pen and notebook in hand. I am well aware that the science doesn’t always work in the real world but this book gives me a great foundation both to plan and to teach my volunteers from.

Full of handy facts and experience and beautifully illustrated, I will be purchasing a real live copy which I very much hope will become muddy and tattered as it takes pride of place in our little community shed. Highly recommended for all gardeners out there, new or old, passionate about working with nature rather than against it.
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jemima1983 | otra reseña | Jan 23, 2021 |
Plant Partners : Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden by Jessica Walliser. I've always thought the "roses love garlic" type books a bit woo-woo, relying too much on anecdote and folklore, and not so much on actual science so I grabbed this when it came out in late 2020. I'm quite impressed. Walliser talks about plants for soil prep, trap crops, living mulches, support structures (think beans growing on corn), cover crops, etc. Good bibliography.
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tardis | otra reseña | Jan 23, 2021 |
I requested this book as soon as I saw it from netgalley (free copy in exchange for honest review) because one of my many, many hobbies, is gardening - specifically vegetable gardening. I've only had one for two years now, and I've learned almost everything from my boss at my day job - a great guy who knows landscaping and gardening inside, out, and backwards. He's forgotten more then I'll ever learn.

He started talking bugs to me from the first day I mentioned we were going to start a garden, and hasn't stopped yet - and this book is written in the same chatty style my boss uses to teach me about how to improve my garden, by using nature herself. I use very, very little chemicals in my garden, and what I do use, is it get rid of the bad bugs, so learning more ways to get rid of them, and get more good bugs - and to eliminate the chemical garbage - is a very good thing.

Not only is the book written in a chatty, educational way, but the photos are gorgeous and an inspiration.

The book begins explaining the author's personal history when it comes to gardening and bugs, and then morphs from there to talk about why you should be interested in attracting bugs in the first place, and just why they are so good for not only the garden, but the environment as well. Some sections include more information then I personally ever wanted to know, but I think for those really serious gardeners, they'll enjoy sinking their teeth into the real meat of the book.



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